Inking!

So, I'm still trying desperately to get hired by John Kricfalusi for his new project starring George Liquor.


But, he's said that the only position he can hire for that doesn't require you have some experience ( which I don't ) is inking.


So below are my inking attempts, done with PMOP ink pens.


The left side is John's original sketch, and the right is my ink.


I'm clearly not very good at this, so any and all advice is welcomed.

Thanks!

BY THE WAY, IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE I CAN FIND A FREE COPY OF ILLUSTRATOR FOR MY MAC G-5, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS, AND I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!!

- trevor.

MUTO!

Take a look at this, everyone!


MUTO is an animation by blu, on location in Buenos Aires and Baden. It takes you across walls and on the street and through abandoned buildings.





MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.





This is the type of animation that requires talent, skill, timing, patience and I think, as you'll see, an understanding of visual poetry.



If more people worked this hard on animation, Pixar might actually worry about making money, whatwith such stiff competition.

Unfortunately, the video can't be embedded, so you'll have to click on this to view it. But at least it's free!



Thanks are due to Shawn McBee for bringing this to my attention. Kudos, Shawn!


Hope you all enjoyed this as much as I did!

- trevor.

Drawing George Liquor II

Click here to read part one of "Drawing George Liquor"

So, I sketch at work if I have the time and the powers that be aren't paying attention. It's usually on the back of one of our yellow order sheets. I used this time at work to keep practicing drawing George Liquor.




So then, I went home and spent a good two hours sketching George from other drawings and some originals. Here's a smattering of the least embarrasing.





Then, when I felt a little more confident with the character, I took a stab at boarding him. Since John K. only has us learning George now, I didn't have any stories of him alone, so I wrote my own.

It's about how George is frying bacon one Sunday, and is out of lard.


Fortunately, Manx and Itchy come to his defense, selling CAN O' LARD door to door.

So, here's the first four pages of the storyboard for it. It's called FAT CHANCE.






My overall plan is to finish this storyboard and then do as much character layouts as possible. Then, since I can do George's voice, I'm going to cut it into an animatic with finished voices, sound FX, timing and temp. music.

DEADLINE: SUNDAY, JUNE 15th!

I'm an overachiever. And an American!




- trevor.

Coming soon....

A peek behind the curtain.

Love,

Janine, Matthew and Trevor

- THE BOOO TOOONS MAROOONS

Drawing George Liquor

So over at all kinds of stuff John K. has put the call out to artists for his new project. It stars the usual characters that he owns ( not Ren and Stimpy or The Ripping Friends ) and right now he needs storyboard and layout artists.

He wants us to practice drawing the characters ( if we're interested in the job, which I, of course, am ) and says the toughest to draw is George Liquor, so he's up first.

Below are two of the eleven pictures he put up on his blog for us to copy. Here they are:



He's also, thankfully, a stickler for accuracy, and has explained the best way to compare the drawings. He suggests putting the original drawing at an opacity on top of your version to make sure the forms are accurate. I've done that below, but first, here are my versions of the above drawings:



Now, the transparent comparisons:




So, I clearly need to work a lot harder. But, I think I captured the 'essence' of Liquor. In fact, if I draw any more tonight, I just might vote for McCain.

I'm going to put up more later on over the weekend, but I'm exhausted. I really tried hard for those crappy drawings and I really want the job, so I'll overcompensate because I want to impress Mr. K.

Yes, that's why I overcompensate. Surely it has nothing do with my nipple dick.

UPDATE:

John has put my transparent comparisons up on his blog, but hasn't commented on them, either here or in his blog's comments.

You know what that means? Back to the grind stone. Unfortunately, I have to go to work now for eight hours, but I'm going to try a few doodles of George whilst there for storyboard purposes and I'll put those up later, too.

- trevor.