El Tigre stuff

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Here is some rough animation from El Tigre, the show I"m working on at Nickelodeon. One of the main parts of my job is timing and editing the animatics. This invloves a lot of work, but basically it's taking the storyboard and timing it out, adding dialogue, editing action sequences, adding sound effects and temp music, etc., to make a blueprint for the whole cartoon to send overseas to be animated. We do very tight animatics on El Tigre, trying to get the cartoon cut to exactly the right length. A lot of new poses are added, layouts by the amazing Fred Osmond are added, and sometimes whole sequences are re-boarded. So there is also a lot of drawing involved. The board is then slugged based on the animatic, which I think most studios don't do. Well I guess some people don't do animatics at all and would scoff at the idea. But I love it. It's like creating a new short film every other week! I say every other week because my buddy Aaron Horvath works on the other episodes.

Of course we go over the animatic with the director, Dave Thomas, and the assistant director, Gabe Swarr, and then it's off to the network for notes. But when it's all pretty much finished, I get to go in and animate some stuff, time permitting. I try to choose harder scenes that require more new drawings, or difficult angles, etc. Most of it is pretty rough and is used as a jump start for the overseas studio. Well, like I said in the beginning, here are some quick clips.

As you can see, a lot of the scenes are pretty short. Even this run cycle above probably wasn't on screen for one and a half cycles. This clip and the first girl running are from "Enter the Cuervo", storyboarded by Ricky Garduno.

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And these last two clips are from "A fistful of Collars", storyboarded by Luke Cormican.
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