Board of Directors

 Dan D. Sparks

President. Yes sir! President!

 

 Lettuceleaf M. Malone

Chairman

Robin DeRail

Traffic Manager

Count DeMonet

Minister of Finance

Arnie Clever

Director of Development

Davelyman out!

"That's Right! We're Animatin'!"

Here is a great vid by Dan Povenmire (who I worked with on the Hey! Arnold Show) and Swampy Marsh, the creators of Phineas and Ferb, documenting the production of a TV animation series:

I'm a Sheet Timer, so I can tell you what that is- but I won't! Ha!

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Hornbill Willie ~ Rough Turnaround

Birds are tough! But after a lot of fussin', here is a rough:

I gave him more of a crazed look to his eyes so that he looks like he's beyond hungry. And because its funny!

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Life Drawinz

Drawinz from reel live real life!

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Scoutin' Around

From my sketchbook:

Some of the scouts from Troop 583 Castaic, Ca. Drawn with a Pilot G-2.

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Hornbill Willie ~ Color Sketch

I'm thinking of a character along the lines of something like this.

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Hornbill Willie

My story calls for a bird to go after the Chameleon. Looking up the natural enemies of Chameleons, I discover that one of its more exotic and beautiful hunters is the Hornbill. So I decide to go with that and start drawing Hornbills.

But as I'm drawing these birds I keep thinking I've seen this bird somewhere before. Then it hits me...

It turns out that Zazu from the Lion King is a Yellow Billed Hornbill! (And he's designed a lot better than mine too >:-(  I like how they designed the tail. I might have to "borrow" that!).

So you know what that means. I have to design a Hornbill that doesn't look anything like Zazu. Taking the drawings I did of the real birds (top), I'm looking for shapes I can exploit.

Boomerang shapes are always cool. The design on the bottom right (above) looks good. Lets see if I can come up with a body shape for it:

It looks like I'm getting somewhere with this. Playing with shapes and proportions here. I'm favoring the upright position of this bird as opposed to the "squat" position of Zazu. That will help distinguish my bird from Zazu. I'm going to go play with this some more. Davelyman out!