(NSFW, due to an impressive string of curse words and smokey angst)

So I know this has nothing to do with Mind the Kitty, but I thought I would share nonetheless. I am a huge Lost fan, and I started this little Youtube short several months ago and just got around to finishing it last night. It’s far from brilliant–actually, it’s pretty ridiculous–but I thought it came out funny enough.

My coworker Peter M from Renegade voiced the Smoke Monster…most of it is just him improvising. He has the mad voiceover skills, and is also the voice of Mr. Messy on The Mr. Men Show. Thanks Pete!

Enjoy!

:)Anne

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It’s that time of year again…time for shameless self-promotion!

I’m listing some of my strange (non-MTK) art on Ebay, just to see what happens. Want to support women in art? Why not bid on a unique holiday gift, created with colored pencils, quiet desperation, gouache, and a considerable amount of black illustration board.

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CHECK IT OUT!

It’s that time of year again…time for shameless self-promotion!

I’m listing some of my strange (non-MTK) art on Ebay, just to see what happens. Want to support women in art? Why not bid on a unique holiday gift, created with colored pencils, quiet desperation, gouache, and a considerable amount of black illustration board.

Anne

It’s been a Mind the Kitty sort of day, so I thought I’d post a Mind the Kitty sort of doodle. I’m just hangin’ out, drawing storyboards for a new show called “Mr. Men” at Renegade and waiting for the Random shorts to air. Thankfully, though, I like to think I have more patience than Tabby. Honestly I don’t trust her with that chainsaw right now.

Aside from storyboarding–which I am enjoying immensely–I’ve been drawing pinup girls with these ladies and working on an extremely low-quality LOST fan film. Yes, this does officially mean that I have no life.

Who went to Comicon? Who had fun?

Look! It’s the animation equivalent of embarrassing candid photos! Really Old Drawings…

I forget exactly when these were done; I think I was a freshman in art school. This was “visual development” for a pitch packet–a concept called “Little Black Duck” that was pretty much the great-great grandmother of what eventually became “MTK.”

Notice the “freaky” club scene in the background–originally I had it in mind that this was going to air on Adult Swim. This is also one of the first drawings I ever did of Lemurman. HOT.

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Look! It’s the animation equivalent of embarrassing candid photos! Really Old Drawings…

I forget exactly when these were done; I think I was a freshman in art school. This was “visual development” for a pitch packet–a concept called “Little Black Duck” that was pretty much the great-great grandmother of what eventually became “MTK.”

Notice the “freaky” club scene in the background–originally I had it in mind that this was going to air on Adult Swim. This is also one of the first drawings I ever did of Lemurman. HOT.

Oh yeah…and Tabby’s mom was originally human and lived next door to Duck. Did I already say this in an earlier post? The guy in the orange is the host of “Cooking from Cell Block F.”

Here are two more characters–Eelene and Bob–psychotic corporate eels who I was quite fond of…but who didn’t fit at all into MTK. Oh well. Someday….someday they’ll have their moment in the sun. Woo.

-Anne

For a while, I was thinking about putting together a Flash game for MTK…and it looks like the uber-talented Avi Tuchman has beat me to it!

Avi has been an intern at Frederator NY this past summer, and started work on the game after seeing the short! He’s been using Flash for about six years now, and the game took him just 2 months to design and program.

So I have to say, THANK YOU Avi! The game will be up on the MTK website very soon! And now, I have a new mission…to get on the high score list! Mwahaha….
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Tabby and the gang are braving the opressive heat and heading to Palm Springs on August 27th, where they’ll be featured as part of a film festival with the longest abbreviated name in the known universe.

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Yesterday, Dahveed posted a quick sketch I did of Teapot, complete with wincing bystanders!

So here, as I promised, is Dahveed’s super-cute take on Tabby! I imagine the scene to be somewhere in the distant future, as Tabby tours with her underground, psychotic punk rock band. I can only imagine the trouble she gives her poor, equally psychotic mother. Tsk.

-A

Whew! The MTK gang just got back from Comicon last week…and we’re just now getting around to doing all-important things like unpacking! And updating the blog!

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Whew! The MTK gang just got back from Comicon last week…and we’re just now getting around to doing all-important things like unpacking! And updating the blog!

Here’s a picture I snapped of the Friday crowd. As Raul and Bill put it, Mama Mia! And this wasn’t even the most crowded day!

I don’t have a picture from the R!C panel but I have to say that I think it went spendidly! Everything looked really awesome…this season of R!C is going to be the best yet! (My co-creator Melissa Wolfe was up there with me…basking in the glow of our half-completed short…and operating the slide projector.)

The obligatory photo of yours truly, grinning like an idiot–as my better half looks on in bewilderment–in front of the not-quite-set-up MTK booth! Why am I grinning, you ask? Because this booth almost didn’t happen. And WOULDN’T have happend if Claudia, Fred, Eric and Therese weren’t there on Wednesday afternoon to help me smooth out the bumps. Thank you SO much, guys!! I’m totally in your debt.

We shared our little corner of the convention center with the infamaously ambitious (and talented) Stephen Levinson and Teapot co-creator Dahveed! Tons of people came by…and some of them even left with a t-shirt! Stephen did his part by walking all over Con in his stylish MTK outerwear. I did my part by saying “New Cartoons On Nickelodeon!” until I was hoarse.

One of the best about Con is the opportunity to meet so many other talented artists! (And cool people from work, and cool people from school I haven’t seen in a year, and Kingons….) I read a blog where an artist called it Nerd Prom. I think that description just about sums it up nicely.

That’s about it for now…I’ll share some more comicon pictures next post! Right now, it’s time for another cup of tea with honey to try and get my voice back.

-Anne

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I was inspired by Jun’s earlier post to show some of the freaky art from my freaky childhood days. As you can see, I was still obsessed with kitties and waterfowl, even at a young age.

The top drawing was done when I was about 10. It’s my cat, Cinders, sprawled on her back by our back door, probably after gorging on a lizard in the garage. Note the bewildered spider approaching her on the right.

The next one, I’m not sure when I drew, but I’m guessing I was 11 or 12. It involves a bender…with penguins. Being crashed by an unruly polar bear. What’s strange is, my friend Vanessa remembers drawing a scene involving penguins and martinis around the same time. PSYCHIC CRAZINESS.

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I guess Duck finally found his way off of the crazy LA metro…but it looks like that group field trip to Australia didn’t go so well! Maybe they can get together and sue Oceanic Airlines when it’s all over.