Faces
So I just uploaded a bunch of different star faces, and a lot of them were just for playing around, and really could never feasibly be in anything ever, some of them were pretty serious. I don’t think anyone wants me to go through which is which.
Essentially, it boils down to this:
No Emoticons. This isn’t a slight against anyone’s previous artistic endeavours, no matter how devious… but since we’re dealing with small yellow orbs here, it could be pretty easy to just accidentally make emoticons. But then, having eyes and actually looking at the content can help with this.
Less is more. I’d like to think I’m an advocate of this sentiment, in this case it makes me very sad. I could in no way shoe-horn the child scarring wonder of the Ren & Stimpy show or mentality into this project. The limitations of the desired style, and it being straight up unsuitable for the script just knocked this one on the head an hour into some Photoshop play.
Somewhere in the middle. Loony Toons was another staple of my childhood. Of anyone’s child hood. Before Hannah Barbera came in to cheapen the whole thing up with mind alteringly awful programming, Chuck Jones and Tex Avery created some of the most wonderful shows ever. Expressive, fun, and just…. God damn fun. They don’t need any more adjectives than that.
Within these cartoons is where animation’s soul lies, and it’s something I wanted to capture. It’s a little over the top sometimes, and what we’re aiming for is nothing like this… So I won’t be capturing that either. But I can enjoy the toons, learn what I can, and figure out ways to warp these little stars into little personality machines.
Oh Tex, you were the man.
Mitchell Galavan