tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-288163882024-03-17T03:47:13.881-04:00Jinx the Monkey :: Drip!The nonsensical doodles and ramblings of Bob FlynnBob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.comBlogger404125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-31780910963438534482014-01-06T21:05:00.000-05:002014-01-06T21:12:30.164-05:00desertscape / 2013 wrap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay, here goes... looks like I've cracked through some of the image-posting issues I was having (<a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/2014/01/follow-me-on-tumblr.html">previously</a>). The new year has kicked in. I sketched up and colored this image the other day (drawing, below). I was out west for a couple weeks in October. The brief time I spent in the desert was just what I needed after working around the clock for the better part of 2013. The vast expanses out there...the enormity and beauty of it all, helped me realize that I need to <i>slow down</i>—to get back to writing comics and exploring ideas. Playing, really. This is me, playing.</div>
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I'd been able to get away from work in small windows last year—mostly time to hit the sketchbook to doodle. Been playing with markers more.</div>
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It's a nice break from working on the computer all day.</div>
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But I still have a lot of fun drawing away on the Cintiq, messing around with color.</div>
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In between assignments, I've been drawing my little Bravest Warriors dudes...</div>
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... all bouncy and cartoony.</div>
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So, the plan for the coming year is to set aside more time for this kind of play, and to dig back into writing and drawing comics again. We'll see how it goes. Like I mentioned in my previous post, you can follow along on <a href="http://bobjinx.tumblr.com/">tumblr</a>, <a href="http://instagram.com/bobjinx/">instagram</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/bobjinx">twitter</a>. I won't be posting as regularly over here.</div>
Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-91743727395257409312014-01-06T20:23:00.002-05:002014-01-06T21:13:20.592-05:00Follow me on tumblr<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey, I know a handful of folks still check in over here (thank you), so I apologize for the lack of updates...since September. I just tried to get a new post going but I'm running into compression and color issues. (<a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/blogger/uU4MuneILZE/iukNhD8xEzsJ">Looks like I'm not the only one</a>.) I post more regularly over on <a href="http://bobjinx.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> and <a href="http://instagram.com/bobjinx/">Instagram</a> (bobjinx), so I recommend following along over there until Google and Blogger sort things out.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Happy 2014!</span></i></div>
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Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-42461429633231152542013-09-17T23:51:00.000-04:002013-09-17T23:53:46.142-04:00MICE 2013 poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (<a href="http://www.micexpo.org/">MICE</a>) is coming up in just a couple weeks. This year the festival is expanding to two full days, September 28 and 29. I was asked over the summer if I'd be interested in designing one of the posters, and this is what I came up with. Nothing too high concept—just a cute little mouse reading comics in a cozy nook of the forest.</div>
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I inked it in Manga Studio. Below is a postcard version with Shelli Paroline's overlay design. You might see them in and around Boston if you're lucky. Pick one up!</div>
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I'll be sharing a table with Dan Moynihan—with the usual assortment of comics and prints. I'll also be doing a workshop on character design, Saturday morning at 10:30. More info on that <a href="http://www.micexpo.org/schedule/">here</a>, along with other scheduled panels and workshops. What else... I did a cover design for a monster anthology which will be debuting at the festival, too. More on that, soon.</div>
Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-59882252661548640542013-08-15T07:55:00.000-04:002013-08-15T07:56:40.956-04:00little leaf dude<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a new story in <i>SpongeBob Comics #22</i> (in stores now!) and it's camping-themed. Around this time last summer, comics editor Chris Duffy asked me if I'd be interested in doing a comic with a poster spread in the middle—basically, a giant illustration. I'd just gone camping with some friends out on the Harbor Islands in Boston, so this is what I came up with. Below are a bunch of images which you can click to view larger, including the camping spread, which works as a pin-up poster.</div>
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I'll talk about color first, and then get into some of the sketches. Color has become increasingly important to me, which is sort of weird to say because it's <i>always</i> been important to me. But it's become an even bigger focus. I put a lot of energy into drawing, but I labor—probably over-labor—on color. I made a lot of specific choices going into this illustration. One may not seem like a 'color choice', but I decided early to stick with as much black line as possible—notable exceptions being the constellations in the sky and the blue line around the glow-jellies. I tried to balance bright yellows, blues, and pinks with neutral purples, browns, and greens. Some of these decisions may be at odds with official SpongeBob color branding (most characters use a colored line, and we're all familiar with flowery blue sky), but I always strive to stay true to the character designs and Bikini Bottom universe, which is full of campfire underwater-type gags. Not sure what to call it, but I had this image in my head of old Boy's Life and National Parks artwork, without any particular references in mind.</div>
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Here's my first sketch comp. A few interesting things to note—the 'claw' shadow in the lower left was originally supposed to be the enlarged claw of a little crab. But all sea animals in SpongeBob (besides the jelly-fish) usually take on humanoid forms. Besides that edit, everything else got in, which is great. I went with the Plankton bug-spray gag because it was more funny than the hammock. Staging it at night also meant I could use pockets of light to direct the flow—highlighting the individual gags.</div>
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Even though I've been doing most of my inking on the computer, I feel strongly about working the pencils on paper. I stuck two sheets of 11x17 copy paper together with tape, where I planned the whole composition, scanned it, and inked it in Manga Studio. You can see below, after talking with numerous folks including pals Chris Houghton and Dustin Harbin, that aliased bitmap lines are the way to go. I've made the switch 100%—and Manga Studio is perfect for inking directly in this mode. So much cleaner. This is also the first illustration I <i>properly</i> trapped and prepared for CMYK press, and it totally paid off. The comic printed beautify. Nice and sharp, and the colors are as close as I would ever expect.</div>
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This issue (#22!) features the likes of Maris Wicks, James Kochalka, Stephen DeStefano, and Joey Weiser to name a few. There’s more to my comic than what I'm sharing here (it has a beginning and an end), so pick up a copy if you see one at your local comics shop. My spread is smack in the middle.</div>
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You can now purchase the mini-comic I had at MeCAF and CAKE over at my <a href="http://www.jinxthemonkey.com/comics/purchasecomics.htm">online store.</a> It’s 44 pages, black & white, and is the first full-length story featuring my brain character, who first appeared as my twitter avatar and later in a couple short comics in <i>Heeby Jeeby Comix</i>. Light on dialogue, the story is told entirely through pictures and panels. Below are pages 2-7 of the book as a preview—only scrapes the surface of the story. Again, <a href="http://www.jinxthemonkey.com/comics/purchasecomics.htm">you can buy it over here</a>. I’ll sign and doodle in it for you. Thanks!</div>
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I’ll be at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (<a href="http://www.cakechicago.com/">CAKE</a>) this weekend with all sorts of new stuff. I debuted <i>Brain #1</i> at MeCAF, but I have a bunch more printed, folded, and stapled with a brand new color cover. I’m really excited to share this comic with everyone—it’s a 44-page mini. And I’ll have new prints—including the Bravest Warriors as Catbugs. As always, there will be plenty of <i>Heeby Jeeby Comix</i> on hand (issues #1-4). So come say hello! The festival runs Saturday through Sunday (June 15-16), 11am-6pm. I’ll be in the back corner at <b>Table 21</b>. You can see the full list of exhibitors, <a href="http://www.cakechicago.com/2013-expo/guests-exhibitors/">here</a>.</div>
Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-71458997504688470662013-05-25T19:55:00.001-04:002013-05-26T09:47:36.292-04:00Thoughts on Doodling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last weekend I was at the <a href="http://www.mainecomicsfestival.com/">Maine Comics Arts Festival</a> (MeCAF), where in recent years my bud and fellow Heeby Jeeby cartoonist, <a href="http://danmoynihan.com/">Dan Moynihan</a>, and I make Free Monster Drawings for anyone who asks. We get a range of teenagers, adults, and kids—people of all ages, really. The two of us take requests and whip up fun little doodles with our shared set of Crayola markers. People seem to like watching us draw, and everyone walks away with a smile. I love it! I always forget to take pictures, but <a href="http://danmoynihan.blogspot.com/2013/05/mecaf-recap-2013.html">Dan snapped a few</a>.</div>
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I recall one kid who was there with his parents. A budding cartoonist, he wanted to know if we had any advice for someone just starting out. At a show like this, I ask kids if they draw comics, and I tell them how easy it is to fold, staple, and photocopy their own books. I add that they should share what they make online if they can. And I say to simply keep at what they're already doing—keep drawing, <i>A LOT.</i></div>
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But it has occurred to me, a better version of those 'keep drawing' words of wisdom we all tout would be to <b>keep drawing, make A LOT of drawings, and don't worry about making bad drawings.</b></div>
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We all start out that way, and then at some point, someone gives us the idea to slow down and make careful drawings. That same someone introduces us to an astonishing technique: If you draw lightly with a pencil, nice and slow, you can work out all your crazy little details and nuances, and THEN you can ink over it with a pen or marker, adding even more detail! Once you're told that you can and should plan out your drawings, it sticks. Because it works! And you can put that eraser to use in the planning stage, too. Why wouldn't you work this way? It's how the professionals do it, right?</div>
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I've been keeping a sketchbook, one that I should really be drawing in more frequently. About a year ago I wrote about how I've been <a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/2012/02/freehand-marker-drawings.html">drawing more with markers</a>—specifically, freehand drawing with markers. By which I mean, I put the pen to the paper and I improvise. I try to shut off that planning part of my brain, and I make it up as I got along. I invent. This is the same thing Dan I do when we make those monsters drawings up in Maine. It should be no surprise, this is what most people refer to as <i>doodling.</i> But I'd argue that a lot of artists aren't doodling enough. Especially if you spend a lot of time on the computer. If you hit UNDO, you're not doodling. You're not allowing yourself that free flow of blending one mark into another.</div>
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Now, I get that doodling is not for everyone. And there are plenty of styles of art and drawing where that planning stage is incredibly important. Roughing in your forms, blocking in your composition, shading, making thumbnails—these are all important steps to creating professional caliber paintings, illustrations, comics...you name it!</div>
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Where I think doodling is important has more to do with discovery. Trying things. Messing around. The more you do it, the more familiar you are with how you draw in general. The more spontaneous your ideas will be. It puts you in touch with your imagination. And it frees you up from that pressure of making mistakes. Because who cares if you make a mistake? Work with it! And if you make a bad drawing, there's still plenty more room in your sketchbook to make good drawings.</div>
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You don't have to doodle with a pen, brush, or marker, but I do think the permanence of ink switches that planning thing off in your brain. I work in pencil a lot, too—especially when I'm designing characters and roughing in a complicated pose or gesture. You can certainly make quick doodley marks with a pencil that carry a lot of energy. But when I get stuck, I'm now in the habit or breaking out a chunky Crayola marker. I fill up page after page of drawings until something sticks. I like to be able to look back at the mediocre drawings, too. Something that also gets lost with UNDO.</div>
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I'll wrap this up by bringing it back to kids...learning how to draw, having fun drawing, but also working at it—getting better at drawing. No matter how good you are, you will make a lot of bad drawings. Oftentimes, you have to pound through a rough patch of bad ones to arrive at that good one.</div>
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I finally got an iPhone in January, and just around that time, Twitter launched the fun little app which I'm sure most of you know about by now, called <a href="https://vine.co/">Vine</a>. It allows you take 6-second looping videos, with one of the simplest UIs around. Download it. It's free. Look me up, if you do (bobjinx).</div>
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Everyone figured out pretty quickly that it's a great app for on-the-go stop motion animation, because you tap on screen to record in quick cuts. I created this vine last night, with a bunch of post-its. <b><i>Note:</i></b> <b>these videos have sound</b>—you have to activate it (when they are embedded in-browser) to turn it on and off. It's on rollover; you'll see it.</div>
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Here's my mess of a desk, just afterwards.</div>
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Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-70326930153815190152013-03-17T12:28:00.000-04:002015-09-18T09:11:52.483-04:00Evolution-Health: Sunburn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ending the week of show-and-tell, here's the final set of designs from the <i>Evolution-Health</i> animations we made at <a href="http://fablevisionstudios.com/">FableVision</a> for the <a href="http://www.nysci.org/">New York Hall of Science</a>. The last one is on Sunburn—why some of us ended up with pale skin to begin with, and what light-skinned populations can do to protect themselves from the sun. It's not often that bikinis and bathing suits pair up with educational science, but here goes.</div>
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In all of animations I had an interesting time playing with a cartoon style lighter on line construction. It's difficult for me to work completely in flat shapes, so I reserved line to help separate out those shapes as needed. You can see that her legs warranted more definition because they have overlapping forms.</div>
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This is what happens if you don't wear sun screen!</div>
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When you live closer to the equator, darker skin helps protect you from the sun's damaging UV rays. When our species migrated north from the African continent into Europe around 40,000 years ago, people evolved pale skin as a means to better absorb the noticeably weaker sunlight needed to create Vitamin D. So, it's an issue of where your recent ancestors lived on the planet.</div>
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But it doesn't make as much sense to go sunbathing in the cold north.</div>
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Still, that doesn't stop lighter-skinned folks from hitting the beach.</div>
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Eventually our protagonist learns her lesson, and shares this info with her other tanning friends. A squirt of sunscreen can do you a lot of good.</div>
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Thanks for following along this week. I'll let you know when the animations go up on the FableVision website, which should happen soon. You can see the designs from all four animations by clicking on the filter for <a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/search/label/NYSCI">NYSCI</a>.</div>
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Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-18900912575724597142013-03-14T23:40:00.002-04:002013-03-17T12:28:49.782-04:00Evolution-Health: Lactose Intolerance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The third in the series of <i>Evolution-Health</i> animations (created at <a href="http://fablevisionstudios.com/">FableVision</a> for the <a href="http://www.nysci.org/">New York Hall of Science</a>) is on Lactose Intolerance, and probably the trickiest to explain. While a lot of us can digest milk well into adulthood, some of us cannot. Basically, we're all born with the enzyme to digest the lactose in our mother's milk when we are infants, but until tens of thousands of years ago, there was no reason to retain that ability once our mothers weened us. It wasn't until some cultures began raising livestock that animal milk became a valuable source of nutrition—people who could drink the milk were at a new advantage (thus, more apt to survive and reproduce). Those who couldn't, well—didn't do so hot with cow's milk.</div>
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I actually named these kids in the Flash file as I was drawing them. From left to right: Sam, Amelia, Danielle, Jason, Nikki, and Lily.</div>
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But, it ends on a happy note. The kids who can't drink the milk help themselves to some orange juice. (Yes, that's an orange juice mustache.) I can't take full credit for this gag—Margie Prager from <a href="http://jkainc.com/">Jeff Kennedy Associates</a> wrote in the orange juice bit. I did add the pulp flecks.</div>
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Next up: <a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/2013/03/evolution-health-sunburn.html">Sunburn</a>.</div>
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If you missed my first post on <a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/2013/03/evolution-health-back-pain.html">Back Pain</a>, this week I'm sharing some of the designs and layouts I did from the <i>Evolution-Health</i> animation project we created at <a href="http://fablevisionstudios.com/">FableVision</a> for the <a href="http://www.nysci.org/">New York Hall of Science</a>. The second of the 4 animations we developed is about Obesity... specifically, the idea that we evolved the ability to store fat when food was scarce, and how that's become a problem in the modern world (at least here in America), where easy access to an abundance of high-calorie fatty and sweet food combines with an inactive lifestyle.</div>
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Obesity was the first animation I started design on. Initially there was a thought to have the contemporary characters have match with prehistoric counterparts (a fun idea). It ended up clashing with the some of the story set-ups, and was probably too cute. Including in this case, where we open on a couch potato but follow a smaller runt-type when we move to the past.</div>
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Below, an early storyboard sequence of the runt, running to catch up with the food.</div>
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This one has a great 'snarly-gorging' eating sequence (above). It ends on a family, happily chomping away on various unhealthy snacks. Note the baby with the soda.</div>
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Next up: <a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/2013/03/evolution-health-lactose-intolerance.html">Lactose Intolerance</a>.</div>
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Starting back in October of 2012, I began work on an assignment at <a href="http://fablevisionstudios.com/">FableVision</a> that would quickly become my favorite project of the year. I've written before about the <i>animation-science</i> connection that happens often at my company—we often use film and gaming to teach educational concepts in a fun and entertaining way. I'm a big science nerd, and and even bigger animation nerd, so it's a dream when the two overlap. This was a collaboration between our studio and <a href="http://jkainc.com/">Jeff Kennedy Associates</a>, who we'd previously worked with on a series of animations for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (<a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/search/label/Traumas">here</a> and <a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/2010/07/senses-characters.html">here</a>). The exhibit, scheduled to first appear at the <a href="http://www.nysci.org/">New York Hall of Science</a>, discusses the relationships between evolution and modern-day health issues, such as back pain, lactose intolerance, and obesity.</div>
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Over the course of the week, I'll be posting some of my designs and layouts from the series, starting tonight with Back Pain. I went in wanting explore a cartooning style that was lighter on linework than I normally work. Another restraint: no texture. Keep it simple using flat colors. The project was drawn and animated completely in Flash (CS3, if you're curious). This short, and another one, feature ancestors like <i>Homo erectus</i>—so you can see why I had a lot of fun.</div>
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Next up: <a href="http://bobjinx.blogspot.com/2013/03/evolution-health-obesity.html">Obesity</a>.</div>
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I've been trying to post more over here lately, but other posting sites have been stealing me away. Blogging is better for writing and process, but Tumblr and Instagram are better (and more quick) for image posting and connecting to people. You know my <a href="http://bobjinx.tumblr.com/">tumblr</a>, but I'm not sure I've shared that I'm in Instagram. <a href="http://instagram.com/bobjinx/">Look me up!</a> I post sketchbook drawings, and other photos of in-process artwork. (I'm sure I'm guilty of food-pics, cloud-pics, pet-pics, and nature-pics as well.) Hey, I'm also on <a href="https://vine.co/">Vine</a>, which is pretty fun. But I'm not sure how to link to that (look me up: bobjinx).</div>
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So, the first season of <b>Bravest Warriors</b> wrapped up this week. Thanks to everyone who's been following along with the show since its launch in November. And if you're only now getting acquainted with it, that's cool too! Freelance design on the show occupied the better part of my (formerly) free time last year—it was an interesting and great experience for me. While I've been sharing some of the major characters that I designed for each episode, there's <i>a lot</i> more drawing that goes into the show (even more than what I'm about to show here). In addition to the recurring characters like Catbug, Impossibear, and Plum, there are tons of secondary and what I might call prop or gag characters that only show up once, or briefly in a crowd.</div>
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The Cereal Master, from <a href="http://youtu.be/47s570LFHDU">Episode 9</a> of the same name, is a good example of a secondary character who played an important role in her episode. Her turn poses and a couple special poses, below:</div>
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I'd often get character assignments once the script was mostly worked out and storyboarding was just about to begin—working closely with the show's director, co-executive producer, and writer, Breehn Burns. I'd read the script to get a sense for a character, and Breehn would get me started with: imagine her as a big head with a face on it. (Ha, something like that.)</div>
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I love drawing characters (this is an understatement), so I'd fill up a sheet with some ideas. Breehn and I would have some back and forth to zero in on the final design. You can see how the final version of Cereal Master formed out of these early ideas.</div>
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This episode required a group of patrons to fill the seats at the Cereal Bar, shown above with their backs facing us. This was a case where their back-views were going to be pretty important. You can see a few of them in the screen-grab at the top of the post, as well. </div>
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Again, they function more as props in a crowd than anything else, but someone has to draw what they look like. Below is a good example of a gag character.</div>
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Beth as a Walrus—A drawing designed to get a laugh.</div>
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Here are the partying mojito aliens, and the desperate aliens from the Suffer Club.</div>
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Similar to the Cereal Bar patrons, <a href="http://youtu.be/NY4jLgvAorI">Episode 8</a> "Dan Before Time", required a bunch of little alien dudes named the Low Gravity Hacker Pack (who bullied on Danny when he was 6). They played a bigger role, and actually have names—most given after I drew them. In order: Hans Christian Teet-Phanters (leader), Wireframe, Slice, Dialup, and Shelia.</div>
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I had a lot of fun drawing these guys, and they turned out great in the episode. I especially like where their colors landed. Again, with an assignment like this I draw a bunch of characters, and then we narrow them down to the final picks.</div>
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Some of these drawings were used in another episode. A few made it into the passenger seats on the bus in <a href="http://youtu.be/sqMN8s9j3lI">Memory Donk</a>, which I did a lot of design on.</div>
Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-58147764108677081012013-03-04T21:52:00.000-05:002013-03-05T00:06:46.441-05:00snow walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In between all the projects that occupy my time these days, I've been trying to find the space to doodle, to play—to explore ideas. Usually these windows are brief. Lately I've been using them to play around with color. I keep coming back to color as the part of illustrating and cartooning that intrigues me the most. I rack my brain about color. I obsess over color selections. I work hard at color, way more than I do the drawing part. It can change the mood of a image—bring added life, draw attention to things. Because I stick with flat colors as a general rule, each color plays a purpose.</div>
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I overthink it for sure, but it's always a good exercise. I'm not sure if either of these are successful, but I chalk them up as <i>interesting. </i>The second one is from a little while ago (posted on <a href="http://tmblr.co/Z8rF1xbonjsm">tumblr</a>), but it hasn't made its way over to the blog.</div>
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// <b>mother and child</b> // color study</div>
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It's been awhile since I've posted some of my designs over here from <b>Bravest Warriors</b> (I do that more regularly on <a href="http://bobjinx.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>.) A full 10 Episodes have aired, which you can watch in their entirety on YouTube, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2DcNkn8HAwSPwGn9h2GGM4Z0t6B0ySVD">over here</a>. The Season 1 Finale, 'Catbug', airs this Thursday, so don't miss it. And it once again features this little guy, Catbug, who seems to be one of the more popular characters from the series.</div>
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What follows are a smattering of designs from a range of episodes. Starting with Plum:</div>
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I helped design an important character known as the Emotion Lord. He's a kooky old crackpot who appears throughout the series. I created this firebelly armor costume for him in the 'Lavarinth' episode.</div>
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The Emotion Lord pals around with his little companion known as The Concierge.</div>
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The most recent episode, 'Ultra Wankershim' featured an enlarged version of a cute little elf named Wankershim.</div>
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Impossibear is one of my favorite characters from the show. He's getting ready to grill up some soft tacos! Here he is in color (minus the apron).</div>
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And these are littler-sized designs of the Bravest Warriors as kids.</div>
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That's plenty for one post. One final reminder to watch the Season 1 Finale, 'Catbug', this Thursday on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CartoonHangover">Cartoon Hangover</a>. Thanks!</div>
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I have a comic in <i>SpongeBob Comics #17,</i> now available on the shelves of your local comics shops. It's a great issue, with a choose-your-own adventure comic, so be sure to snatch yourself a copy.</div>
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Now for some process, for anyone who's curious. It all starts with a pitch. This time I was invited by editor Chris Duffy to pitch a 2-page spread related to jelly-fishing. I write in pictures, so below are some of my early ideas for gags and the layout of the illustration.</div>
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My thinking was to use a large jelly hive to contain cutaway-view panels—so that you could follow SpongeBob's journey room-to-room, reading left to right. Once the concept was approved, I started to block in shapes and forms, keeping in mind important restrictions like the page fold. I drew right on top of a print-out of the page guides.</div>
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At one point I was going to do it all brush-on-paper, but I'd inked a lot of my recent SpongeBob comics in Flash, and decided that would be the best route. (These days I'm doing most of my inking in Manga Studio.) I'm pretty sure I worked in Flash MX, even though this screenshot is CS3. I work on a layers for different items (separating characters from the background, just to organize things for any adjustments). I keep the sketch layer on the bottom.</div>
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At this point I bring everything into Photoshop, where I do all my coloring. I archived an early color step, blocking in the characters and basic color ideas.</div>
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Then I go in and polish everything up. I used colored lines, which is an added step of work. The printed version includes dialogue panels and labels for each room of the jelly hive—added after I deliver my final file.</div>
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One of the wild things about publishing is that sometimes it can take a year for what you draw to make it to print. I started working on this comic in January of 2012, so it's great to <i>finally</i> see it in crisp printed form. Nothing beats it! Though, it's admittedly looking pretty old to me. Thanks for reading!</div>
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Meet Impossibear, this Thursday, on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CartoonHangover?feature=watch">Bravest Warriors</a>.</div>Bob Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13053411253123465715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28816388.post-91898664609776102792013-01-03T07:54:00.000-05:002013-01-03T07:54:15.524-05:00mushroom color study<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All dressed up for the holiday season.</div>
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At <a href="http://www.fablevisionstudios.com/">FableVision</a>, I often get to work with museums, which is the best! Even better, when I'm given the chance to work with museums directly engaged in teaching the public about Science. We were recently approached by our friends across the channel, the <a href="http://www.neaq.org/index.php">New England Aquarium</a>, to help develop an app on Biomimicry. The project is part of a larger initiative on <a href="http://www.neaq.org/conservation_and_research/projects/project_pages/global_climate_change_and_ocean_education.php">Global Climate Change and Ocean Education</a>.</div>
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<b>The New England Aquarium</b>, collaborating with other aquariums across the country, is leading a national effort to enable aquariums to effectively communicate the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on marine animals, habitats and ecosystems. Our goal is to build on visitors’ emotional connection with ocean animals, connect to their deeply held values, help them understand causes and effects of climate change and motivate them to embrace effective solutions.</blockquote>
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What is <i>biomimicry,</i> you ask? It's when we look to nature for inspiration, examining systems and organisms to find ways to solve challenges and improve technology. An example you've probably heard of is Velcro, the hook-and-loop fastener system inspired by the tiny hooks on sticky burrs.</div>
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The app in development will be used by staff interpeters to get people thinking about the importance of our relationship with nature. We're still doing early testing, but in this post I've included a series of illustrations I created to introduce each topic on biomimicry (in a fun way). The above image of the whale shows how wind technology is looking to the contour of humpback whale flippers to improve the energy effiency of wind turbines. Seriously, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=humpback+whale+flipper+wind+turbine">look it up</a>!</div>
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involving solar technology inspired by trees (this one is a mangrove),</div>
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fuel efficient cars inspired by the design of the boxfish,</div>
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and a coating for ships which prevents barnacles from attaching—inspired by sharks!</div>
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Like I said, we're still in the testing phase, but you'll soon be able to see this activity playing on iPads on one of your upcoming visits to the aquarium. Cool, right?</div>
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Okay, as promised, here are the remaining designs I created for the latest episode of <a href="http://bravestwarriors.cartoonhangover.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Bravest Warriors</a>, "Memory Donk",<b> </b>which you can watch over <a href="http://youtu.be/sqMN8s9j3lI">here</a>. Fair warning, possible spoilers ahead. This is the hulking form of the Memory Donk. Below is the 2-step turn I designed (click on the smaller images to view large).</div>
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One of the things I like about drawing for the show is that it's forced me to really consider that back-3/4 view. When's the last time you drew the back of one of your characters when you were doodling it? In practice (say in comics), I bet you draw it all the time without even thinking. It's a pretty common angle for showing a character looking at something. I use back-3/4 way more than profile, which is probably my least favorite angle because you only get one eye and it can flatten a drawing.</div>
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But, I ramble. Below are various other memory donks that appeared at the Memory Donk Convention.</div>
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Next up, the old lady on the bus. Appearing with her purse.</div>
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We eventually gave her a floral pattern. Below is a 3-step turn. You can obtain most of what you need to know about a character from these three views. I mentioned profile, before. A proper front-view can also be hard to nail, in terms of flattening features (foreshortening) and avoiding the human tendency to get all symmetrical.</div>
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I'm realizing my blog is beginning to look like a coloring book. The colorist on the episode is normally the one responsible for adding color to the designs before they get sent off to be animated. I promise more color (and images with backgrounds!) again, soon. <i>—Thanks!</i></div>
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