This past week was my first week at my new gig! I'm VERY excited to work with The Cuphead Show team as an in house animator at Netflix!!! It's so wonderful being reunited with some familiar characters! The Cuphead game was my first job in animation and I am so grateful I get a chance to work with this property again. It holds a very special place in my heart. So here's my Cup-sona, MugMarco, I made in 2015 when I interned at Studio MDHR reunited with an old friend.
I WAS BUSY WITH WORK AND LIFE. But now that I've got a massive amount of free time and there seems to have been proper scheduled releases of stuff I worked on I can finally post about it.
Cleopatra in Space
Cleopatra in Space is finally available but only in the States and parts of Asia where it first premiered late 2019. Not much luck for us Canadians who worked on it. I had the opportunity to work on this from summer 2018 - summer 2019! If you have a chance to watch it take a gander! I might be posting animation of it on my Instagram, I have posted only 2 so far.
Animaniacs
I had the wonderful chance to work on Animaniacs and it was a dream come true. Animaniacs was one of my favourite childhood cartoons and it made a massive impact on me and my interest on animation growing up. I referenced it SO MUCH during school as well, going frame by frame on my own time during school amazed by how fun animation was. I referenced it a lot making my thesis! Working on a heavy traditional animated show was also another dream come true. It's slowly been making a comeback and it felt so good flexing my traditional animation skills again. The series is set to premiere on Hulu on November 20, 2020! Tough luck again to us Canadians!
A God's Purpose
For this year's 5 Second Day at Titmouse I helped out with Gary Ye's bonkers short, "A God's Purpose"! I always enjoyed Gary's ideas since school and getting a chance to work on a short with him was really fun! I only had 2 scenes at 1:25 with the over the shoulder shot and the leg coming in as well as the scene following it with the melting pug.
Archibald's Next Big thing is now available on Netflix! I only worked on this production for a little bit last year but it was real fun while I was on it! I only worked on 2 episodes and they're both in Episode 2! So go check it out now!
For this year's Titmouse 5 Second Day I participated in a collaboration with 5 other artists at my studio! Organized my Jordan Theberge, we all got together to create an exquisite corpse animation. Here it is called POW!
Mine's the second part with the space cadet! The design for the character was a reuse from a quick collab I did with Koko Chou two years ago. You can check out the collab here:
I ended up adding a portal gun to his design because when I agreed to do the film the first idea that came to mind was: PORTALS. I don't know why, other than the fact that it's my most favourite game ever. I guess I'm always thinking with portals (I'm sorry). After the idea with portals I didn't have enough time to create a new character so I whipped up an old design I made that I never had the chance to finish animating. Minor tweaks to the little kid such as his limb colour because it would blend with the black background and minor simplifications to get the animation and clean up done in a week.
Yes his own portal gun design was a reference to the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. Let's just say this was my homage to my favourite game. I was going to make the portals orange and blue like the game but that would have been too much info going on in the screen in a short amount of time and he was already orange, so I didn't want any confusion with the colours.
Also here's some rough animation because I always love showing progress work!
Captain Underpants season 2 is out!!! This is the season that I got to work on a lot unlike the first season where I only worked on 1 episode with only 4 short shots haha. The time I was on this show was fun as it too was cartoony and had a bunch of ridiculous and fun posing. As I continued working on it I became more comfortable with the animation style of the show and began to animate a ton of scenes that I ended up liking a lot!
Hopefully I can gather all my scenes that I like and compile them together into a video sometime soon. I also want to do it with my Home scenes as well so I'll try and get working on those compilations pronto! Anyway enjoy the new EPIC season of Captain Underpants!
