Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy. Hong Kong Phooey, quicker than the human eye. He's got style, a groovy style, and a car that just won't stop. When the going gets tough, he's really rough, with a Hong Kong Phooey chop (Hi-Ya!) Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy. Hong Kong Phooey, quicker than the human eye. Hong Kong Phooey, he's fan-riffic (gong!)
The Furry Pals is an animated short created and directed by Rikke Asbjorn and produced at the Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe. I art directed the project as well as storyboarding and writing it alongside Rikke. It was amongst six original shorts produced at the studio and our brief was simply to create something short, funny and that would show some potential to being developed further towards a TV series. So Rikke's idea was basically about a gang of reckless, but lovable animal pals on an ill fated quest to help other creatures in need. Like the animal A-Team. The short itself is really just a chase cartoon, but we expanded upon the larger concept in a mini-bible including character descriptions and some story synopsis that was also pitched to the network. Here are the storyboards we produced for the short. These were then put into an animatic and then layouts were produced directly from the rough boards. The entire short was animated in Flash in-house at the studio. These are a collection of backgrounds I produced for the short. They were all done in the photoshop and then the entire thing was composited in After Effects. A huge, huge thanks goes out to the crew. Here are the credits... Created and Directed by Rikke Asbjorn Art Director - Chris Garbutt Storyboards - Rikke Asbjorn and Chris Garbutt Animation - Rikke Asbjorn, Valentina Ventiiglia and Gale Walton Compositing - Celine Desrumaux Editing - Jamie Foord Voice Talent - Rob Rackshaw, Lewis Macleod and Charlie Bean. Music and SFX - Dave Newby Big Thanks to - Steve Small, Stephane Coedel, Tim Bjorklund and Clement Prigent Production - Angelica Jung-Woo and Joy Whilby Exec Producers - Daniel Lennard and Suzanne Berman
The bird in the first bunch is from the little bird project, a collective design project for UNICEF.
It’s quite possible that we have now crossed the franchise event horizon. All properties that are capable of being turned into a “cinematic universe” will now see it done. We know th
The bird in the first bunch is from the little bird project, a collective design project for UNICEF.
The Q-Pop Takusatsu exhibition opening took place last night in downtown LA. Here are some photos from the night and the two pieces I did for the show. Thanks to Chris Mitchell, Mikael and Miki for putting on such a great night. The first one is called 'Kaijuniors', named after the Japanese Kaiju monsters. 16 3/4" x 12 3/4" Ink, watercolour and gouache on pastel paper. The next one is called 'Bugga Wugga Wugga'. 16 3/4" x 12 3/4" Ink, watercolour, gouache and acrylic on acrylic paper. Here are some details of the two pieces. They're both available to buy through Q-Pop's website if they haven't sold already.
My Illustration Agent recently asked me to do a post on their blog about Sketchbooks and what they mean to me. You can check out the post here. Below are some more sketchbook pages that they didn't have room to include in their post.
Here is the cover (bottom of post) and a bunch of black and white illustrations from a children's book of poetry called GRRR! by James Carter and Graham Denton, published by Macmillan. Out next year! I went a bit more nuts with the colours than I normally do, but it came out kind of fun! Below is a version of the art showing a behind the scenes peek at the rough edges that get cropped for the final cover artwork. It almost looks like I'm a real painter, rather than a conjurer of digital fakery!
Here is the cover (bottom of post) and a bunch of black and white illustrations from a children's book of poetry called GRRR! by James Carter and Graham Denton, published by Macmillan. Out next year! I went a bit more nuts with the colours than I normally do, but it came out kind of fun! Below is a version of the art showing a behind the scenes peek at the rough edges that get cropped for the final cover artwork. It almost looks like I'm a real painter, rather than a conjurer of digital fakery!
From James Bond's Aston Martin to Inspector Morse's Jag, fictional spies and detectives have always had the coolest cars. Now, with hit Scandi noir TV series The Bridge featuring a beautiful Porsche 911S, it's the perfect opportunity to look back at the classic cars that have graced our screens
