Doctor Lollipop!

Early this year, the lovely Aliki T. Grafft asked me to help with character designs on a short.
It was released yesterday on Cartoon Hangover, and is the creation of Miss Kelly Martin!

Look at all these unicorns from the past few years. 

Billie the Unicorn and her cousins,

Amethyst and her pegacorn,

Parry Gripp's Space Unicorn,

and finally Kelly Martin's Doctor Lollipop!

Here are some early Dr. Lollipop roughs, originally I thought he was more of a Ludwig Von Drake type, but when I found out he had a manly voice, that changed.

Then he became a bishounenicorn.

One of my coworkers started reading the original Amethyst comics, and has been sending me screen grabs of various comic book panels.  She's on the Jade arc right now, so it's really hard for me not too doodle the ridiculous drama.  Amy hasn't had real sleep in a week because of these morons and their problems.

Speaking of this coworker, follow Kathryn right now, she draws really cute superheroes!

(She also drew the model sheet for Dark Opal in his boxers)

Almost forgot, Derrick Wyatt sent me a blob fish photo on twitter, and then asked what a blob fish powers would be on Gemworld.  This is what happens when animation nerds look at fish photos I guess...

I'm so sorry...

Cartoons are stupid

Someone on Tumblr asked me about pitching cartoons.  I've only had one pitch amount to anything, so guess that's like winning the lottery?  The chances of it happening again are fairly abysmal.  It seems depressing, but it's more just a check off of the bucket list.

Here's a link to my answer, for those interested.  Aliki liked my answer, and she knows her stuff!  Thanks Aliki!

Dr. Lollipop, from Kelly Martin's upcoming Cartoon Hangover short

This is the last month of Annoying Princess Drawings  

Here's some old stuff, like the kids' say, "Throwback Thursday"

This short re-airs on DC Nation this Saturday.  Or you can go on youtube and watch all of them in full. DC Comics put them all on their channel.

This stuff ties into the pitching theme today!  Here is the quick drawing from the original pitch!

Originally it was pitched in four separate segments, thinking that if I was lucky they'd pick one idea. 

 I like to have at least one sketch for any story idea that's being presented.  Not sure if it's a crutch, but since animation is a visual medium, it probably didn't hurt. 

It ended up being all four were approved, along with coming up with a few more ideas to tie it all together.

Here's some quick sketches trying to figure out designs for storyboard handout.  The process was fast, so the designs were finalized during the storyboard phase.  

 Since the shorts are connected, made a few of these so everyone working on them knew what was going
on.

Here are the finals for this ugly baby.

Size Comp

Baby

Old baby theory drawing for a friend, from another project.  Lots of cartoon babies last year.

Robot babies from Scooby Doo Mystery Inc.  

That's it for all the babies in this post.

Princess Batman of Gemworld

Pig and Pew

Life never stinks when you're a pig with a friend like Pew

Hamster poop

Have some Avengers.  BYE!