Warrior Kitteh

I've been doodling in Photoshop again.  It's a Boy-Is-It-Ever-Monday warm-up sketch before tackling my workload.

I'll most likely make a few more passes at this at a later date. But for now, here's the original ruff drawing.

What Have I Done?!

What Have I Done?!, originally uploaded by Fnook.

... Well, there you go... I've been Bronyed..

I.. I.. Don't have much of an explanation for this one.. Someone dared me to do this.. And that someone would be Demonysh... Many of you could've guessed. I think it's because I'm floored at the fan-craze that show has.

Sly Cooper: Modus Operandi Genesis BOX!

Sly Cooper: Modus Operandi Genesis BOX!, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Here we go.. I've gone and taken a huge and very nerdy step further and actually put together a replica Sega Genesis/Megadrive box for Demonysh 's and my collab project.

Looks pretty convincing doesn't it?

Here's the original collab:

The box and cartridge used was a duplicate copy of Sonic 2 I had kicking around. I'd say it's a fair sacrifice for this project. ^_~

Drawn in Photoshop CS4, and Flash 8, on a Wacom Intuos 4.
Insert, and cartridge sticker label were printed on a Canon Pixma MG5220 Inkjet printer

Doggy Centipede

Doggy Centipede, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Poking a bit of fun at everyone’s favorite over-hyped torture porn flick. — Had a little bit of time today, so I whipped up a doodle in Photoshop for the Make-it-Funnier group. It’s been a while since I participated and I’m really embarrassed about that, but look at this as an attempt at making good at group participation.

Drawn completely in Photoshop CS5, using a Wacom cintiq 21UX

Sly Cooper: Modus Operandi

Sly Cooper: Modus Operandi, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Here we go folks. Demonysh and I have finally finished our very first collab project!!

Yep! It's the long, lost, (and very fictional), Sega Genesis/Megadrive release of Sly Coopers adventures in glorious 16-bit!

This was a lot of work, but a heck of a lot of fun to put together, so you can certainly expect to see a few more of these in the near future from both of us.

Sly Cooper IP © SuckerPunch games.
Sega Genesis/Megadrive © Sega.

*Not a real product*

Leigh

Leigh, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Let me start by saying that I've been having a helluvva past couple of months with brutal animation deadlines, and work pressure out the waazzoo.. Artistically, I'm so completely burned out that I was starting to think I COULDN'T draw anything for myself even though I really wanted to, but didn't have the drive, nor the energy.

I was browsing the recent entries for the folks I'm watching, when I came across a recent post by Babyfox on deviantArt.. I really thought it was a cute design.. I really wanted to draw this.. So I did..

Thanks for getting me out of my art block ! -- Hope you like it..

Based off of her cute design:
HERE.

** HB Pencil, standard crap photocopier paper, with some Photoshop CS4 colour/FX/BG

Sketchbook: Ratchet & Clank

Sketchbook: Ratchet & Clank, originally uploaded by Fnook.

A few more sketches pulled from my bulging sketchbook.. Bloated like a sea corpse, it is.. *ahem*.. -- I've always been a big fan of the Ratchet & Clank games back on the Playstation 2, and here's some evidence of that. Technicly these two shouldn't work together because character-wise they both play the straight man, but for the purposes of the game they seem to work fine.

Fun sketches for a fun game. I'd like to start doing a few more of these game character sketches.. Maybe when I find a bit more time in my work schedule.

Now I'm off to get more of my animation quota done.

Sketch Dump - Cat BARFS!

Here's a pile of sketches collected from my desk and whilst on coffee breaks with a co-worker -- The theme of which started out as cats, then quickly devolved into cats barfing because it was funny, and something that totally grossed us both out as cat owners.

Doodles are 2B pencil, colerase pencil, and ballpoint pen.

Scaredy Squirrel - Clip 009

Scardey Squirrel - Clip 009, originally uploaded by Fnook.

I had fun animating these couple of scenes, so I thought I'd post them. This series is a heck of a lot of work, but it's also a heck of a lot of fun too.

Animated in ToonBOOM Animate Pro 2, using a Wacom Cintiq 21 UX.

Crayon Doodlin...

Crayon Doodlin.. by *fnook on deviantART

This is what I get up to when trying to entertain a grumpy 3-year-old. It comes complete with the hamburger greese finger print on mouse's neck.
The 3-year-old in question completely ignored me while I drew this for him, in favour of a Spongebob episode he's seen 300 times already. *sigh*

Crayon on green construction paper.

Werner III - Clip

Werner III - Clip, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Waaaaay back in 1999 I was doing freelance animation for Hahn Films. I finally managed to find a copy of this film and a few others I had worked on, out of Germany. Man, this was a LOOOONG time ago, and it's kinda weird to see these days of my career again. Here's a clip.

Traditional 2D paper & pencil animation.

Scaredy Squirrel - Clip 007

Scardey Squirrel - Clip 007, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Another small chunk of animation that I did for this series. This one was particularly fun to animate. I enjoyed animating the timing of Scardey noticing the tv camera at the beginning. ^_^

Animated using ToonBOOM Animate Pro 2, on a Wacom Cintiq 21 UX

Eff'ing BIG Dog

Eff'ing BIG Dog, originally uploaded by Fnook.

This one started out life as another sketch jam with Demonysh, but I've givven it a lot of Photoshoppin to bring it all together. It's got some fun characters..

Originally ruff drawn on paper, but final cleanup lines, colour, shading and composition in Photoshop CS 4 using a Wacom Intuos 4. Background is 3 different clay tiles I have sitting around and arranged on my scanner to fake a layout.

Scaredy Squirrel - Clip 006

Scardey Squirrel - Clip 006, originally uploaded by Fnook.

I haven't posted anything for a while mainly because I've been flat out busy animating on this series. I thought I'd post one of my latest clips as another teaser for this series.

This is not the final edit, or final sound.

Animated using ToonBOOM Animate Pro 2, on a Wacom Cintiq 21 UX

Scaredy Squirrel - Clip 005

Scardey Squirrel - Clip 005, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Here's another one of my latest scenes from the "Scardey Squirrel" series. Animating in ToonBoom really makes doing things like animated staggers really easy to do. Which is good considering staggers are kinda tricky to do in traditional animation.

Drawn using a Wacom Cintiq (21UX), and animated in TOONBoom Animate Pro 2.

Scardey Squirrel: Clip 004

Scardey Squirrel: Clip 004, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Here's another one of my latest scenes from Scardey Squirrel. If you're wondering what he's doing, he's trying VERY hard not to touch the grotty toilet seat in the outhouse. ^_~

I was running late with my deadline, but I managed to crank this one out in under 8 hours. This is a really fun series to animate on.

Drawn/Animated in TOONBoom Animate Pro 2

Animated Scribbles: Gophers

Animated Scribbles: Gophers, originally uploaded by Fnook.

A quick little looping animation I spent about 45 mins making, for this week's subject for the "Make It Funnier" sketch group.

And it's for this subject...

Drawn on a WACOM Cintiq 21UX, and animated in Toonboom Animate Pro 2

Sketchbook: Snooty Gator

Sketchbook: Snooty Gator, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Another quick doodle from my sketchbook. This was a lot of fun to draw, so I also gave it some Photoshop love..

Drawn in about 30 mins, then scaned and painted in Photoshop CS4

Sketchbook - Sketchjam 002

Sketchbook - Sketchjam 002, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Yaaaay! Had another lovely sketch jam with Demonysh over the last few days. This isn't from 1 sitting. This is actually from 2 or 3 days of sitting down and having tea together and doodling our faces off when we really should be working instead. -- These are so much fun to do, and I think both of us will be doing more of these as a regular thing.

Don't forget to check out the other half of this jam-sammitch OVER HERE!

Basement Kittehs Box

Basement Kittehs Box, originally uploaded by Fnook.

Eeeeeeevil... Kittehs are aaaaal eeeevil.. And that's why we love 'em..

A really fun little doodle for this weeks subject in my drawing group over on DeviantArt. -- Drawn using Photoshop CS4, and a Wacom Intuos4.