Animaniacs is now available on Hulu! As for Canada, it's currently airing on Teletoon! It's such a great honour to have worked on such an iconic show that had a tremendous influence on me growing up. Seeing my name there in front of the water tower is like a dream come true for younger Marco. I hope you all enjoy the show as much as I did working on it.
In other news, here's my first feature film I got to work on this past summer! Arlo the Alligator Boy was announced and will premiere on Netflix in 2021!
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!
