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Off-the-Pegs

December 12th, 2006

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Hey. Pencil tests. A round of tests arrived from Wang Film Productions late last week. We requested those scenes which might have posed problems for the animators so we could get a leg up on fixes and retakes. Since the rest of the show is due to arrive tomorrow, though, that plan has lost most of its advantage.

This short will be a talkie (and probably far too talky, at that) but these pencil tests have no audio. No text or context this time around. Instead, imagine the sounds of dueling bon mots, fierce oaths, and solemn gurgling.

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SAM

CONRAD

NESSIE

Back in March, I was having a tough time finding a character design for Conrad that didn’t make my face hurt. Cute woodland creatures are very forgiving subjects but funny humans? The drawings just wouldn’t click. Bland, awful stuff. It wasn’t until I stumbled onto a MySpace profile, of all cockamamie [Read more…]