Friday, September 07, 2007

Biteneck Beatniks teaser trailer ONLINE!!!

HERE!!!!!!

As I believe I've mentioned recently (just a bit) I've been working on the teaser trailer for the BITENECK BEATNIKS animated series. Sardine Productions in Canada are the prod company and while I've been taking care of the characters Ian Culbard has been designing the backgrounds. The end result looks very groovy and we're tremendously pleased with it - we just need to see how things go next month at MIPCOM in Cannes now. As you can see the teaser is now up and running so do take a look.

Thanks to Nik's pestering in my last post, here's some of the work in progress on the FRANKENSTEIN'S CAT art show. This is the way I work, starting with the darker colours that make up backgrounds and then building lighter. Also, you can probably see I start at the rear of the image and work forward through every component through to the foreground. More often than not this means that the characters are the last things that get illustrated, but by that stage it's usually quite exciting for me to see the painting finally come together.




Ahead of MIPCOM we're looking to get some postcards done of these first 3 paintings to promote the show, as well as possibly feature the originals at a CCI cocktail party. Either way I'll be making sure I get a bunch of the cards myself for future promo ops, and certainly to bring along to signings.

Bada Bling!

10 comments:

Tim Bye said...

These look tremendous - can't wait to see the finals! Nice to see your technique too. The biteneck cartoon looks to be very cool. Great stuff!

Ken said...

Thanks for the heads up on the Bradford Animation Festival - Ill be going for sure! Are you heading there yourself?

Great updates on those paintings!

Anonymous said...

Hey I want some of those The Wall postcards! Yes please!

Jo Bling said...

Tim - cheers squire, thanks for kind words. The teaser is online now via the link.

Ken - don't know yet. I've been asked to attend it just depends under what guise really. Might be helping out during a talk.

Myles - don't bother, that ones a rubbish episode.... ;-D

Andrew Glazebrook said...

That trailer is superb, kind of has a 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' feel to it too, a really slick looking package. Love the work you've done so far on your Cat pics too !!

Anonymous said...

SUPER
really fun trailer
thanks for sharing it

the posters are looking good as well

Dominic Bugatto said...

Love the poster , nicely done.

Josh Parpan said...

Wow, I loved it! Great timing and design! Was it done in flash?

dragonhead said...

I like the feel of everything in the trailer. :)

Ryan Wood said...

Looks terrific, I want the soundtrack too!