Kyle + Rosemary

The intrepid aventurers charge down the hill - because they’re super hopped up on cupcake sugar. Kids - eat cupcakes in moderation!

Wow, down the street there’s a whole store just for cupcakes!! Aliki and I got some.

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The intrepid adventurers gathered for…adventure! See if you can guess which geek’s game character is which. I bet you can.

Yeah - I cheated and used a foresty background from a game. It’s only a storyboard!!! I swear we’ll create our own backgrounds when the time comes!!!

The above title says ‘leet toonage and gaming geeks’. This is ‘Leet Speak’, the technique of replacing letters with various numbers and punctuation marks that vaguely resemble the letters, the goal being to confuse the non tuned-in reader.

What does this have to do with my cartoon? Nothing really. I’m just admitting that I’m a crazy out and out geek.

So lets see.

Last year, 2005, for reasons which I won’t get into here, was one of the worst years of my life. (Although I must clarify, not the part where I got to work on Aliki’s film =)

Did I turn to drugs, drinking for solace in my misery? No! Being the geek that I am, I turned to MMORPGs. “Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games”

Here’s one of my game characters from World of Warcraft sitting in the pirate town of Booty Bay.

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And here’s Rosemary and her friends. Rosemary’s the one on the far left. As you might guess, they embrace a certain lifestyle.

Speaking of which, check out this french site. Scroll through some of the pics. I bet these people spend hours on their look. Man, that takes dedication.

It’s just the beginning folks, everything and anything could change, but…

…this here’s a rough color lineup of some of my characters. Kyle’s the one on the far right. I’m gonna need a good cleanup artist to help me make the drawings purty. I really admire those guys. I know I can’t live without em. I’m far too impatient to nail down perfect linework. This laziness comes from years and years of storyboarding. Storyboarding - where you pretty much don’t have to make clean drawings or even draw the characters on model. Yup. My cleanup skills, if I ever had any, have been ruined by storyboarding.

Coming next: Rosemary and her gang!

There was a blank office.

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