Buddy Rizzo

Starting work on a graphic novel with a friend. Here's a pic of the main character, Buddy Rizzo. Plus a quick animation test of his pal Croco-Jim, the Gator Faced Boy. The animation is just practice using an example out of Eric Goldberg's Character Animation Crash Course book. I haven't updated this blog in forever but I'll start using it to post some progress from the Buddy Rizzo book.

A Goober drawing, 'cause I haven't posted anything here in quite a while.

Bee Models

Some models of a few of the bees from the cartoon that I'll never finish. Mostly they'll only be seen as a swarm but these few will get close ups when the beat down begins. I have to finish the storyboard, the part just before the end is weak and I need to add some gags to it. I'm probably over thinking the whole damn thing though.

Screwy Studies

Just a few studies I did while watching one of my all time favorite cartoons, "Lonesome Lenny".

"Goober" Title Card

In between working on the redrawing the storyboard, which is still ongoing, I drew the title card and then digitally painted it in ArtRage.

Goober Doodles

Crappy doodles.

Character Painting

Here's the character painting that will open the "Goober" short. I inked it on Bristol and then "painted" it in ArtRage. I love the Art Bartsch paintings in the beginning of the TerryToons shorts and wanted something like that right before the title card. I'm no Art Bartsch but this will do for now. I'll probably use ArtRage for painting most of the backgrounds but I'd like to try my hand at using real paint for some. In the meantime, I'm rewriting the beginning to simplify things and looking where I can cut scenes in order to bring down the overall running time. Originally, The short was to be around 7 minutes. I'd like to cut a couple of minutes of it.