Samsquatch

Plush by Nicole Mitchell
Painting and design by Edward Juan

Ladies and gentlemen, two pieces of printed ephemera for your ocular ingestion. One of them is a promotional postcard for “Samsquatch” while the other is a prop appearing in that self-same fiction. Special thanks to Ed and Nicole for lending their expertise on the postcard, both digital and textile, on short notice. I contributed just a few messy sketches but they both did a bang-up job executing the final version . . . that I promptly stamped my name on, Chihuly-like. Ed, incidentally, was recently interviewed on the Character Design blog:
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Finally, the McGuffin that kicks off the cartoon.
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Layout by Chad Coyle
Color by Saelee Oh

It’s too bad that this story happened too recently to incorporate into the warp and woof of “Samsquatch”. I’m sure there could have been a scene of Sam being handcuffed to a rollbar in New Jersey. Y’know, like a cryptid Midnight Run . . . if Charles Grodin had been a Chupacabra.

Well, time marches inexorably onwards as we wait to get the pencil tests back. Pins and needles, friends. Here’s another rough walk cycle that was sent along as reference for the animators:

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