Adventure Time with Finn and Jake

Here’s your first look at some Adventure Time character and prop designs. They’re all by Ms Natasha Allegri, who’s working for the show while still studying in Arizona. Thanks, Natasha.

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Courtesy of Mr Walt Holcombe, from the Kramers Ergot 7 signing at Family in Los Angeles, November 16, 2008.

– Eric

You’re going to notice a few differences between “Adventure Time”, the Nickelodeon short, and Adventure Time, the Cartoon Network series, when the latter premieres late next year. One of those differences will be in the background style. Pen and the show’s creative director, Pat McHale, have asked art director Nick Jennings to come up with a couple of different takes based on a wide array of art and artists – from Arthur Rackham to George Herriman to Jeff Smith – that float their boats. Nick’s been busy churning out a variety of looks. While things are far from set in stone, here are two early samples which folks seem to like real well. What do you think?

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For those of you who keep track of such things, “Adventure Time” has been on the internets for a little over a year. Between all of it’s distribution points, has had almost 3,000,000 views and already inspired over 200 pieces of spontaneous fan art and a T-shirt empire. This YouTube posting alone gathered up almost half a million views just in the last week. Go Pen!

–Fred