El Tigre Animatic with Animation

Here's an excerpt from the animatic I did for an episode of El Tigre called "Yellow Pantera." I think it's one of my favorite episodes of the series so far. This episode deals with Manny calling his father a coward and really believing it. Harsh stuff. The board was so good on this one that it made me want to animate the whole thing! But, that's crazy, so I just did as many scenes as I could in the time I had. In this sequence, Manny goes off and tries to defeat Mal Verde, the meanest bandido off all time. Of course, he has no idea what he's getting himself into. It was boarded by Eddie Trigueros and directed by Dave Thomas. I did the timing, rough animation, sound effects, temp music, and timecode.

More El Tigre Animation

Here's another scene I animated for the El Tigre episode "El Tigre El Jefe." In this scene Sergio, who's a villainous kid wanting to seek revenge on Manny, is convincing the other kids of a plan to take Manny down. He starts to laugh crazily and then notices everyone looking at him. This is a case where the storyboard drawings where so good and funny that it made me want to animate the scene.

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Here's the scene in animatic form. It was storyboarded by the amazing Eddie Trigueros. Eddie's drawings are always hilarious because they're so pushed.

Now here's the model for Sergio. Sometimes when you send a scene to be animated at a different studio, they can have a hard time interpreting the, dare I say it, "off-model" drawings form the storyboard. And Eddie's expressions were so funny that I didn't want them to get lost. So I humbly tried to capture his drawings while still making it look like the character.

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