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After what seems like an forever I am ready to start my first animation for the Mutantbox site. I’m calling it “The Prologue” because it will basically give me a quick run though on the whole animation process so I can work out some of the kinks before trying something more ambitious.

Here are the main character for the Prologue, I wanted to introduce them since they will be a predominate part of the website. Below is a rough Photoshop sketch of Mutantboss and his Minions.

They still need to be brought into flash cleaned up, broken up and possibly simplified a bit. I think that I am happy with them enough at this point to move forward.

A sketch in Photoshop of Obama and McCain, time to bring into flash for cleanup and animation.

Inspired by real life events, having a 2-year old is all about “Poo”. That and poop jokes never get old.

Finally something new. Seems like forever since I had the chance to do something fun. Well a few nights ago I rented the new Rambo movie. When I went to bed that night I had a bunch of strange dreams where everyone was from the 80’s. Just as I was waking up this little guy appeared in my dream. By lunch the image of him was still so clear in my mind that I decided to just make a quick sketch. So here he is, directly from my Rambo influenced subconscious.

I’m not sure if this guy is going to be a sidekick for Bugger or star in his own little animation, but I like him.

I like this little guy, he is a possible candidate for this site’s mascots.

I am actually liking him more and more. I think I will do a full rotation and set him up with a full set of expressions and mouths for animation.

Self caricature.

Here is the character for my first little flash animation attempt. I’m going to keep it pretty smile focusing mainly on dialog and limited motion and under a minute. I cooked up a little ‘interesting’ story that I think will be eye opening and should make it a little more fun for me to animate instead of being just a boring animation test.

I’m hoping to have it done in the next week, but that will depend on my work schedule.

I’m starting the new year off with a quick painting I’m calling “The Canadian”.