scene set up

Took the doors off so you could get a peek at the inside.


I am working on the origin episode now. This is the set up for a big chunk of the episode. This sequence consists of a couple long shots like this, some close ups of the character's feet from under the stall, and a couple of pans from the scientist's feet to the hero's feet in the left stall; not much to animate in this sequence, except for when we see the scientist's feet under the stall transform into the Unintelligible Hunk.

transformation

Put 'em together with some fade ins and effects; and voila! You have a transformation sequence.

old ,new, old again

This is the third time I changed this character's design. A while ago I took an old design and changed it to look more flat and angular. I didn't like it, especially the change in his face. So this new version is a mix of the two. He is very close to what I want now. He looks like a spoof of Iron Man.

2 bg options

I have 2 BG options for this scene. While the red version has more of an overall harmony and mood once the character is in the scene, the blue version really makes her POP. Since this is a very short 2 second scene and the audience will have little time to take in what's going on, I decided to go with the blue version. The character stands out and the scene is quickly readable. If it was a long scene I would have gone with the red.

Orgasma intro

Color.


Clean up and break into symbols.


Sketch

This is going to be a quick shot of Orgasma shooting laser beams from her boobs. This is one of the many actions scenes that will make up the intro to the show.

another into screen shot

Since Toilet Puck is the main character, I tried to squeeze as much of him as I could into the intro. An easy way to do that is to have a montage page like this.

intro screen shot

This is a screen shot from the TOILET PUCK intro. It is going to be an action packed, fast paced intro with each and every character in the Toilet Puck Universe to date!

shot set up

This is the set up for a short pan shot. The scene starts on the right and then pans left to bring Toilet Puck into the shot.

scene 5

This scene has some pretty good flash animation in it. It has a nice flow to it, doesn't look too mechanical, and definitely does not look too rigged and puppet like.

what's betwen a 3/4 and a straight on shot?

7/8? 4/5? I should have paid more attention in math class instead of stare at Mrs. D'Angelo's legs. What ever it is, this is how his head looks in that view. It's an inbetween for a head rotation going from a front on shot to a 3/4 head shot.

exit stage right

This was a time consuming walk cycle that had to be done, just to get the character to exit the scene. This was also far more challenging than any walk cycle I have ever done. My first attempt used only symbols and tweening in flash. I did not like it at all. It looked mechanical and lifeless. Next, I tried to draw it with the brush tool in flash. But without a Cintiq, and only a wacom tablet I could not get perfect accuracy on my lines and inbetweens. So what I ended up doing was roughing in the walk cycle with the brush, it was okay to be off in the rough. Then I used symbols only where neccessary and manually drew the rest with the line tool. It was a lot of work. But it was worth it. There was an old Flintstones episode with a character, either Cary Granite or Rock Quarry or some other movie star of the time, and he had the craziest walk cycle ever! His legs did all kinds of wonky bending, but it worked. I wanted a bit of that in Pee Brain's walk cycle, but slower. A retarded looking walk cycle for a retarded clone character.

backwards mouth

Depending on the expression, I like to put the mouth on backwards. It makes a wacky expression look even wackier. They did this a few times in some of the earlier Simpsons seasons. Watching the Simpsons and seeing it on TV for the first time, the backward mouth really jumped out at me. I thought it was just the craziest thing I ever saw. And so I have been using it throughout the years wherever I could sneak it in.

flash animation

This is a scene I worked on today. I really need to get a cintiq soon. I would do so much more traditional, albeit digital, animation with a cintiq, instead of using short cuts like symbols, libraries, and tweening. I did manage to get some decent action on his cape though. This is just a rough; once I get the voice recorded I will change the lip sync and get the right facial expressions to match the voice acting, and most importantly fix the timing. For now, the lip sync is just a place holder.

PEE BRAIN mouth and blink

One of the scenes I animated today. I am not using a standard, generic A to H mouth chart for this pilot or for this series. I want the acting, particularly in the lips syncs to be funnier, more specific to the dialog, and different from scene to scene. Most shows these days that use flash or toon boom have 2 sets of mouth charts in the library, happy A to H and Angry A to H, and ALL the lips syncs for ALL the scenes use only those mouth positions. Sure it makes for some very fast animation, but it's not acting, and it is not interesting. So I am creating several completely different lip syncs in every given scene, and then if it those lips work in another scene, I will reuse them. Eventually, as I animate more scenes and the library of lip positions grows, there will be increasingly less lips to have to be drawn. Most digital shows do this very same thing for hand positions such, so why not lips?

Angry inbetween

Here's a screen shot from some of the animation I was working on today.

new and improved scene 2

The filthy, grimy BG texture really helps in this shot. The old version HERE did not convey the grossness and disgust with which Super Stud views Pee Brain. Now it really does.

new and improved scene

I painted the Pee Brain character more, adding highlights and deeper shadows and blood shot eyes and made him look dirty, and changed the BG. Click HERE to see what it looked like before.

new villainess...introducing ORGASMA!

Here's a new villainess character. Sex is her weapon.

Captain Toxoid colors

I tried to stick with red and yellow, just like Iron Man. Not sure if those colors are best to convey that he is made of a bathroom sink though.

Captain Toxoid

This is an old character I designed for another concept of mine. I love the character and the idea for the series, but I don't think it'll go anywhere. So I am taking this character and putting him in the Toilet Puck Universe! The character was always a spoof of Iron Man, so he fits in the Toilet Puck Universe perfectly. I am plucking him out of one super hero series and dropping him into another. The design obviously had to change, so I re-designed him to fit in the Toilet Puck series with a flat design and some wonky lines. A cleaned up and colored update of this character will follow soon.