Regular Show - Picking Up Margaret

New REGULAR SHOW episode "Picking Up Margaret" written & storyboarded by me and Kat Morris. Tonight at 8pm on Cartoon Network!

Regular Show - Skunked

The Regular Show episode"Skunked" just aired, so I thought I'd put this board up for you all to check out. This is the original version of "Skunked" I wrote and boarded (just the thumbnails-never cleaned it up). For some some reason, someone somewheres didn't like it, though it mirrored the "approved" outline (This happens more than you'd think where ideas get approved, then all of a sudden it's like, "Whoa whoa, where did this come from? You guys trying to pull something over on us?!".) So the episode was pretty much all re-written, introducing the bingo and were-skunk/Ribgy-transforming elements. Some of my lines were re-purposed and a lot of my drawings were used. But I still like this original version, especially cause I was able to inject some Black Snake Moan into the story, and for the nice Margaret/Mordecai moments. Overall it was more about Ribgy acting like a jerk because he thought everyone hated him because of the smell, but really everyone was trying to be cool about it. Enjoy?
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Interview

Hey yall, check out this interview I did with Rondal Scott III over at the Strange Kids Club, where I talk about writing and storyboarding and stuff.
http://strangekidsclub.blogspot.com/2010/12/interview-w-sean-szeles-storyboard.html

Regular Show - "Mordecai & the Rigbys"

This episode of Regular Show aired last week. I wrote and storyboarded it with Shion Takeuchi. This is an earlier storyboard version that contains more/different jokes and a couple of cool different scenes that had to be cut. There was some funny stuff in this version that I was proud of and missed in the final, but what can you do. Enjoy!

UPDATE: I also wrote the songs that were featured in this episode and I thought they were going to be re-recorded by the composers, but they just kept my versions in. I just recorded everything in my apartment playing the different parts and threw a drum loop on there. Also both these songs are extended versions because the versions in the final episode had to be cut down for time.

PARTY TONIGHT (note: this is me singing scratch, latter replaced with Mordecai's voice)


SWEET LITTLE BABY as sung by Angel (actually me in the final episode, but this is a scratch version as well)




UPDATE 2: Here are the lyrics to the Party Tonight song for those who are interested.

Your eyes staring into my eyes
Who am I but a guy with two eyes on the prize
And the prize in my eyes is 10 times
The surprise in your eyes as I kiss you goodnight.

Your smile is the fire that rocks my soul
gonna remember it until I grow old
'Cause life is too short we gotta do things right
So baby let's just party to-night-
Baby let's just party to-night

We've come out on top, We're in front of the line
We're here to rock out and have a good time
'Cause the past is the past and the future is bright
So baby let's just party to-night
Baby let's just party to-night

Flapjack - "A Day Without Laughter"

"A Day Without Laughter" was written and storyboard by me and Somvilay Xayaphone based on a story by Steve Little. It was very different in its first inception, but it was changed a bunch after we turned it in. (I think somebody didn't like that it was about protesting or something.) So they pretty much changed the whole story, but left some of the details from our board in. The awesome Benton Connor reboarded the rest but didn't receive credit.

So, good or bad, here's the original version. Enjoy!

Flapjack - "Lost At Land"

UPDATE:
Watch the episode for free here:
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/flapjack/index.html

Tune in to Cartoon Network Monday May 3, at 8:30pm for a new episode of the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack!! It's called "Lost at Land" and was written and storyboarded by me and Somvilay Xayaphone.

"Lost at Land" was the last episode Somvilay and I boarded for the Second Season, and the 10th in a row! They're airing it out of order though because our 9th episode turned in a special and our 8th episode turned into a hysterical nightmare! So stay tuned for those!

It's a pretty cool episode and it felt different to me because it doesn't take place in Stormalong, and most of it isn't at sea. And I tried to play up the epic beauty and serenity of this new land.

I haven't done this in a while, but here are some extra scenes that were cut for time:


Well, this first bit was actually just changed because for some reason we couldn't imply that they had eaten horse poop. But what we changed it to isn't really much different. But I really like this version cause it's more jokey!






This bit was cut for time when Flapjack imitates K'nuckles and falls down the hill. I Just wanted to show Flap and K'nuckles having some plain 'ol fun.









More of them just having fun in the new land.








And finally this scene played into the storyline that K'nuckles wants to be remembered after he dies, but it only comes up if he thinks he's gonna die that moment. When Flap confronts him about it, he brushes it off. But then later in the episode it resurfaces. It'll make sense if you watch the episode.

Flapjack - "Willy!"

Tune in tonight, Thurs. Oct 15 at 8:30pm on Cartoon Network to see my latest episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. It's called "Willy! (Or won't he?)"

More extras to come!

Flapjack - SS Knuckies

Tune in tonight, Thursday 24th, at 8:30pm for a new episode of the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack!! It's called "SS Knuckies" and was written and storyboarded by myself and Somvilay Xayaphone. Actually, the whole half hour is ours because I think they're replaying "Fancy Pants" right after. So check that out if you haven't seen it.

UPDATE: Here are some design sketches Done by our character designer Thaddeus Couldron. It's for a new character Baron Berzerker, who's a crazy, badass, escaped convict, lunatic. He whipped these up before we started the board.

Then I took what I liked from each of them, and combined them into the design below, which we used for the board.



I caught a peek of the finished episode, and they cut a lot of stuff for time, but here are some snippets below.

As usual, here are some scraps of my parts that were cut for one reason or another.