Month: February 2007

Kitty Cats – Sweeping the Nation one Sketch at a Time

I was sketching with a friend recently, developing some new characters for an independent film. We were trying to come up with a great and simple character, something endearing but basic without too much detail. I ended up with that little cat down there. I liked him. I liked him a lot. Not simple enough, not endearing enough, but I know that my ability to develop is my strongest. I knew I had to just keep pushing but we were close, very []

Come Home Little Tooth! Come Home!

This week at work I’ve been developing an educational animated movie to teach little kids about what happens when you lose your baby teeth. This is one of the thoughtless little doodles I’ve been holding onto all week. Sometimes the educational children’s animation I do for the company tends to be a bit more scientific than my five year-old brain can handle. I got lucky this week and this weeks movie will actually have a baby tooth in a diaper with a []

Penguin Development

A few months ago I had some potential clients approach me about doing some developmental work for them. They’re coming up with an interesting series of children’s books. I got really excited about the project, and did a bunch of prelim sketching for them and a few face to face meetings. That’s when they suddenly stopped returning my calls. You never know what makes that happen, it’s all part of the business. I really loved some of the sketches though and think []