Animated loops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-EWfg2ZuSU

And another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfdhH4XcyPs

Both done in Maya on the theme of Space travel.

Hop and his house.

Been trying to get something representive of the finished look of Mamboness, here are a couple of ideas for my character and set design.

I have gone for a sketchy free hand feel to the scenery as i feel this compliments the narrative.

Pitch process

After the harsh realisation im doing this by myself, i have written the firrst short sketch and storyboarded it out. I still need to work on the characters; and give a whole look to the thing, but im defo making progress.
ok,
The first story goes like this;


All the main characters are lazing in the midday sun, a lorry goes past, a tire falls off the back.
Both the cat and the dog have designs on this tyre, but the dog gets there first. He is just about to start chewing on it when he feels a sharp pain in his behind. Its the cat. A fight insues and this disturbed Hop who comes over and separates them. Then Hop has the idea of cutting the tyre in three and the final shots are of the dog chewing his bit, the cat snoozing in hers and hops bit with flowers planted in it. Short but sweet, but packed with positive messages.

Experimenting with dog and cat characters.

these show the development of snaggle; and how  his face is going to be made up so he can be drawn over and over again.

Pitch project influences.

http://www.regmombassa.com/

This guy is a really great artist. I love his style and he is going to be one of the major influences on my pitch project animation.

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Characters.

Just knocked these two up. They are complete opposites; so all sorts of gags are possible.

Snaggle.

Snaggle is a clean living long suffering inhabitant of plane tmambo who is constantly looking for affection from 'most of the other inhabitants with various degrees of success.

Muzzle

Muzzle is the exact opposite of snaggle; always deficating; licking, pissing antagonizing and generally winding everything and every situation up. He is the typical 'big red dog'.

Hopefully i can get someone who is into character design to come on board to come up with more polished versions of these; but if not they will be separated into layers taken into illistrator; vectorised and exported into either toonboom or flash.

There owner Hop will be introduced later.