Evolution of a Character

As exciting as it has been to see the characters come to life in the stories that we are developing, as an artist it is great to finally be developing the characters visually!

We are trying to take the quick drawings that were done for the pitch bible and make them into more polished designs for animation. A rough drawing was scanned in and cleaned up nice and pretty in Flash.

Luckily I have two AMAZING artists that are helping me. Their names are Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua. They are both incredible designers who have worked on way too many things to mention.
They are currently on the Disney show "The Buzz on Maggie" and have a pilot in the works at Nickelodeon.
Do your selves a favor and check out the amazing work on their websites: super-macho.com and fulanita.com . You can also check out a feature on Jorge at coldhardflash.com .

They have been great to work with! I do an initial drawing, they clean it up, I make really picky notes, and they adjust the drawing. We go back and forth until we like where we're at. And it's all done via e-mail!

They are now working on turn arounds based on these drawings. I'll post them when they are done!

Comments

[roque]

Rarely do you get to see this in depth of a process following the evolution of a character's design PLUS great drawings by Sandra, Jorge, and yourself all in one post. MORE please!

ps. I especially love the use of post-its in a lot of your roughs...

[ethan]

Thanks for posting this. You rairly get to see this kind of production evolution. Just the smallest tilt of a line adds a lot of life to your characters, it's great to see!

[Ray]

Hey Bob,

Amazing progess! I love the line work, (though I might be biased, haha). Will you be doing the show in Flash? I hope Macromedia comes up with a Post-It® tool so you can revise the animation. Keep up the great work! Wake up Teri and say hi to her for me. :-)

Ray

[Bob]

Thanks Ray!
Hooray for Post-it's!
Don't leave home with out them!