Mega post with Moving Cartoons, Doodles, and Illustration

Yo yo yo homie people.  I have been so busy so my posts have been irregular.  Just a warning, this post is going to be huge because I have been very busy (to the point where I just don't have the time to post this work because I am busy doing it.  But here you go: I am going to get right into it.


I will start off with Megapope.  For those of you who aren't familiar this is my next short (and when I say short I say that lightly, because, as of right now it is like 7 minutes long.  I have begun to keyframe animate it and the animatic is finished.  I thought I would give you a preview of some rough keyframe animation I have done of 3 of my favorite characters.

This is a sketch of the Skinny Cardinal.  He is the high-pitched, shrill evil cardinal that rides a golden throne wheelchair.

This is the fat cardinal (upper drawing).  He is evil but my favorite character.  He just eats and licks his fingers through the whole cartoon.  He rides, as you can see, a plump pony.  The lower one is megapope naked...

This is the most evil and commanding of the trio of cardinals: the mean cardinal.  He rides a shackled heathen man.
Soooooo here is 4 shots from the first scene in which you meet these characters:

I have also made some leaps in what I am doing for the backgrounds.  The main setting is in this rich, lavished room with many decorations.  I would have had to draw like...70 different angles of this room.  Soo0o I have used my dabbling in the 3D program, Maya to assemble a toon-shaded room.  In this room I can move the camera to any position and render a picture of that angle and use it for my background (I won't have to redraw anythinggggg).  I will be drawing the other backgrounds but those are easier.  Here is what it looked like when I started.

I used this angle to recreate my production still.  It went from this:

to this (3D background)

I have recently pretty much finished the Room.  Here are a few angles!

I really like the fish tank.  All of the patterns are hand drawn (rug and wallpaper)  Annnnddd here is a closeup of one of the paintings.  They are Jesus paintings but with Mp's face pasted over each.

Before I talk about other things here is another Megapope character sketch that I kinda like:

I am in a screen printing class and have been working on this Elephant picture I call "Colossus"
Here is the sketch

And here is what I will be printing:

And I have been doing a god deal of life drawing and layout stuff for my Layout class.  It is essentially a sort of layout/lifedrawing/illustration class for animators. Here is a piece of work I just finished that I am pretty proud of.

Its a nuclear waste dump.  I had some fun with it.  I call it "Mutation."  I am going to be doing two more layout drawings that will be big illustrations.  I have chosen a character that is a Castradi in 17th Century Italy.  He is a castrated Soprano who sings in the Sistine Chapel choir.  Here are some rough layout perspective sketches.  I am trying to figure out what angle to do this from and what the layout of the space is like.

Here are some life drawing things I have done for this class.

Now here is the section where I just want to post some doodles and on-my-own life drawings that I did over the past few weeks.  Most of them are stupid but this is me drawing for fun.

That is what my sketchbook looks like.  Its getting late and this post is far too long.  So, I talk to you guys soon.  I hope you enjoyed this post.  I know it made me tired at least. 

Currently listening to: Crustation- Purple