The Two Witch Sisters

Hey everyone,

This is Melissa Wolfe reporting for Niki Yang. We just got back some AWESOME pencil tests for her short, and I wanted to share one with you. Basically, pencil tests are a way for the animators over seas to show us folks in Burbank what the show will look like fully animated. Pencil tests have no sound, and are used by the creators to determine if the animators are “on model”. In other words, are they drawing and animating her characters correctly, based in the information she has provided.

Judging by the looks of it, they are doing a great job.

Click HERE to check out one of the tests done for The Two Witch Sisters!

Congrats Niki!

I worked on this bg in the loft at my apartment. I didn’t have time to clean so the loft was a total piggy dump. My usally allergies attacked me, my nose and eyes ran all day long. My loft is still a dump but I am happy to be here to blog this and go back to my drawing desk.^^

hey stephen, here is a better file of the gang of rabbits.

as you can see they are not the nice/cute rabbits we’ve seen at petco. they are awfull pirates who hunt down Carrot eternaly.this is their flag.
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Here is the Tws’s gang. I am cleaning up some space on my computer for the “Victor” project.so I have been looking through all the bloody work from TWS. this is one of them….

bloody monday,
niki

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Finally, TWS has left burbank.I shipped it to korea on the 24th of March.
Thanks to all the random cartoon family for being extra patient. I feel like a pregnant woman who is waiting for her first child to be born.

I just realized that I have never introduced the main chatacters Dorothy and Carrot!!! Dorothy is the small one who I created after my real sister “yun jeong” and the troubled red headed one is carrot. believe it or not they are twins!!

two wich sisters in color!

I’ve been busy busy busy super busy to finish bgs, character/props and colors. My super talented comrade “Nick jeong(http://phantom309.com)” and I finished the bg designs and bg paintings together at my loft. my other talented wing “rami kim”(http://www.ramiskim.com) also stayed at my small loft to color t.w.s.
I will tease you guys and show you a little bit of what we have been doing at my 100 square foot loft for three weeks !
dump your cellphone, destroy your car , glue your butt to your chair and stay tuned….peace

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Hey Everyone! This is Melissa Wolfe writing in for the incredible Niki Yang. Niki’s slaving away–errr–I mean…indesposed at the moment. I’ve just uncovered Niki’s animatic for Two Witch Sisters and wanted to share one of my favorite scenes with you. I was so pleased not only with the terrific cut out style, expressions, and story of Niki’s short, but also on her voice casting choices (hint: she has two guys playing the Witch Sisters!) Dee Bradley Baker is perfect as the high strung sister Carrot, and S. Scott Bullock lends his incredible talents to the voice of Dorothy.

Click HERE to watch a scene! Sorry if it takes a couple minutes to upload.

Ho, ho! Have a great holiday! and I hope that everything goes well with you guys next year.

I think the beauty of animation is cooperation. Recently I’ve had alot of help from many talented people.

I had Candy Milo, the extra dynamite voice actress, record the voice for the Bumble Bee last Friday. It was a tough character because he only speaks with the word “buzz.” How can you say both “hello” and “goodbye” only using one word? Candy’s acting was great.

I have Robert Lakco, who is an excellent clean-up artist for Teen-Age Robots. He is helping me clean up my designs.
Nick Jeong is a very creative designer and filmmaker who is helping me with BG Layout and Prop Design.
Brad Breeck is my composer who gives tastey spice to my short. He sent me a song for the scene where the two witches sing, which made me happy all day.

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