Toby and Skip by Harmke

Toby & Skip: Smells like trouble from Harmke Pasterkamp on Vimeo.Here's my pal Harmke's cartoon she made in cute school. She did it all in ToonBoom Animate (which works the same way as Harmony, only is a lot cheaper)and you can find some of her PRODUCTION ART here:and of course there has to bethe TOBY AND SKIP OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGEHarmke has also done excellent inking for me.We would work

Simpsons Amid Interview-Longwinded Answers pt 1

AMID: 1.) First things first, what's the backstory here? How did you end up animating a Simpsons opening?Matt Groening and Al Jean asked me to do it. They showed me an opening that Banksy did that satirized the animation production assembly line system in Korea and told me it was really popular, so they wanted to do something similar with me.StoryboardAt first they just wanted me to do a

Watch Adult Swim

Click the pic to see the flickassisted by:Jojo BaptistaTommy TannerGeneva HodgsonCG Moon, Stars, FX: Paul GriswoldCamera and tech help: Alex VassilevEnglish voice by Auralynn When, Japanese voice by Hitomi GriswoldThanks to Jason DeMarco and Mike Lazzo...and the helpful folks at Toonboom, Karina, J.R. Ron, BernardI hope I spelled everyone's name right...

Here's Something

to tide you overI haven't posted much lately because I have been working on a short secret projectwatch for it soonassistant animation by Tommy and JojoSlick camera moves by AlexStory by Tom Minton and meDesign and animation by meFurry voices by Steve and Auralynn*Explanation of techniques:Adult Swim asked me to do a few short shorts in completely different styles using different characters.So I

Soon

I have some new theories about animating eyes but someone else is going to tell you about them soon.SALE ON TOON BOOM ANIMATION PROGRAMSI'd recommend the second product on that page "Toon Boom Animate" for $699 if you are just starting. It has great ink and paint tools and it's pretty easy to animate in.

The Adult Swim Talking Eyeball Mascot

Imagine my delight when Adult Swim approached me and asked if I could create a talking eyeball for them.I was experimenting with animating various ways in Harmony, sometimes using keyframing and digital tricks but it was more fun drawing the animation straight ahead like this.Once I had my rough layout poses registered in Harmony, I just went ahead and drew each animation drawing one at a time.I

Need Some Tech Help Part Time

Here's the kind of crap I do.full of sap and pathos and subplotsHey thereif you are good at using computer programs, building websites etc and want some part time work on a current project, let me know in the comments. I need someone who is organized and detail oriented.PhotoshopIllustratorHarmonyFinal CutSound RecordingWordpress/BloggerMayaetc.Gimme a clickable link in the comments to your wares

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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

Rough and Clean in Action

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Inking In Harmony

I roughed this character's body on 2 layers1) Body2) arms (because I wanted to overlap the timing of his arm with his bodyThen I made another layer above the 2 rough layers, just for my cleanupsYou can turn off individual layers and just see the clean up. I go back and forth to check everything. One problem is that the layers underneath are just as dark as the layers above so it makes it hard to

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Inking and cleaning up in Harmony

Help Wanted

Hey, I'm doing some short station IDs for your favorite network and need some freelancers to help outI would especially like to hire some folks who can use Harmony/ToonBoom.If you can:AnimateInk and PaintPaint BackgroundsAre cartoony and stylish and like stuff that is exaggerated and slightly nuttyput a link to your stuff in the comments.I especially would like to find a couple animators in the