Yes, “unofficial.” That basically means fan art. Well, I am a fan of the show and have a good handful of pals working on it so I’m always pleased to see new episodes. I made these earlier this year for a test to become an officially authorized Adventure Time illustrator for a publisher that has a deal to put out Adventure Time books and other products. That didn’t lead anywhere yet but at least the process made me try my hand at these characters which was fun to do. I have some notes to update the characters from Pen to make them more like the iconic licensed versions that are approved for this type of use, so I’ll be updating these as soon as I get a chance. This is opposed to the versions of the characters on the show that you can see change slightly depending on which team of artists boarded the episode. Very interesting stuff.
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In other news, it’s been busy around here this year. Two books are about to be released that I designed, one is a history of science fiction movies and TV produced in association with Syfy Network and published by Universe, and the second is a book that is essentially a history of the last 100+ years as seen through the pages of the magazine Variety, published by Rizzoli.
Also the Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! show that I directed animation segments for has premiered on HBO Go recently. This was an awesome project to be involved in and features a lot of funny people including Brody himself of course. Will incorporate into a new animation reel and distill into a portfolio post ASAP. Check out the post on Meathaus I did on this.
Also the segments I animated for Eagleheart need to be added to the reel and portfolioized…got a full plate here. Let’s do this.
Last, I’ve been doing a lot of pages on Lenny’s Summer Job, one of my animation show ideas re-visited as an ongoing sketchbook comic, this has been the perfect solution for me to get the ideas out without worrying about being slick about it all. Just do ’em up in my sketchbook with pencils and ink quick and dirty at the crack of dawn while everyone else is sleeping. It makes me focus on the developing story and characters knowing all along that I can always come back later and make a bunch of slick presentation material if I intend to pitch this Jimmy-Jawnson again. And I’ve never understood how you can develop a show idea with all these character descriptions and stuff without figuring them out first by actually writing and drawing a whole load of exploratory stories. So that’s what I’m doing.
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