Specific Heads, Specific Expressions, Specific Gestures and Mannerisms

At both upcoming animation festivals, they asked me to do a seminar and talk about and show some of my influences. Obviously I'm really influenced by classic cartoons and I love cartooniness and magic - the stuff that the cartoon medium does most naturally and better than other media.But maybe the one thing I do differently than most cartoons is the acting. I'm not that influenced by cartoon

Simpsons Interview pt 2: Models and Abandoning Inbetweens

CHARACTER MODELSSo I did some character models to give them an idea of how I would draw the characters as caricatures of the Simpsons and then explained that even drawing them that way wouldn’t be enough to achieve what I wanted to do.I’m even bored with the pose to pose style animation we did at Spumco where the only control we had over the look of the cartoon characters’ acting was in the held

Who Needs To Pay For 2 Whole Eyes?

In an industry that is always looking for cost cutting ways to produce entertaining but efficient product I am happy to show off my latest money saving trick.
One eye is half the price of 2, right? Think of the savings!
Of course, sometimes you need a realistic believable expression and only 2 eyes will do so you can't be stingy on every single frame.

quick peek

Clip 4I animated this in Harmony using both straight ahead traditional drawing and some tweening Flash type tricksof course you couldn't get lines like this in Flash-not easily anyway. Once I got the whole scene set up and the main drawings done, most of the rest were drawn clean in 1 shot with no real roughing neededI moved the head up and down using the camera peg in Harmony on a 12x beat. the

Kirk

What a man. don't know who did this caricature, but it's really good.