cartoon fun time

The official poster for my short, Trick Moon!!

Drawing guides for Trickshot I made for my short! 

Trickshot, as the middle sibling, lands in-between cartoony Pocket and his more grounded big brother, the Prince. You can see this most clearly in his hands. They’re usually at least partially articulated, except at a distance.

TRICK MOON, my short for CN, is up!!

“Let’s Meet Sonic” is OUT! Wow, what a culmination of a lifelong dream it was to even touch an episode of OK KO where he meets one of my all-time favorite characters!

Mystery Science Fair 201x has aired! A great episode of OK KO storyboarded by my beloved roommate/bff Ryann Shannon and her storyboard partner Parker Simmons! 

More fav drawings from Villains Night In! 

It was really fun doing a reversal episode, where we’re seeing a “villains come and ambush the heroes” story from the villains’ perspective. As far as KO, Enid, and Rad were concerned, it was just like any other episode where they had to kick some bad guys off their turf!

One of my favorite episodes (actually, several of my favorite episodes) of OK KO that I’ve worked on has come out! It was awesome to collaborate with my roommate/bff (and voice of Tattletail!) @ryannshannon​ to write and storyboard VILLAINS NIGHT IN! More posts incoming (both about VNI and other episodes I haven’t posted about yet).

I wanted to be sure to post the animatic for the “Follow Orders” sequence because it’s one of my favorites. This scene and the “playing house” sequence weren’t in the outline- Ryann and I just really wanted to make them! I think they’re really funny explorations of the character’s home lives.

We wanted to evoke the feeling of being stuck at weird friends/family’s homes and being horrified by them (as well as the horror of being subjected to that one wild kid who takes things too far). The Box-Bots are Evil, but they’re fundamentally Lawful (and have each other). They operate completely differently than Fink, and just don’t know handle the chaos inherent to a minion who is organic. It’s a funny (and very Real) contrast! I think it came together as a hilarious vector for how different each family’s brand of love and dysfunction can be, and how baffling kids’ lives can be to each other. We really followed our hearts on this one and got to bring a lot of realness to it. I’m very happy with it!

Thanks to my pal @daveofthedead for helping me with the “Follow Orders” song, to the revisions team, and Nick Veith on animatic timing. Here is Ryann’s beautiful post about the episode, too!!

Bonus fact: After the song, Fink calls the video “completely inane” (which links up with the scene in VNO when Venomous says “this is inane.”)