The final Bar Steward characters designed

The Bar Stewards animation

It's been a very busy week but each night I've been doing the final designs for each of the Bar Steward characters who will appear in the poster I am producing for my animation proposal. Here are what have been completed so far and today I will finish off the mother, father, sister designs, then by the weekend I will have them all put together in their finished pose together. So that will be one design completed, but my partner and I have five more to go, two more cartoon ones, and three 3D ones.

Work this week

I've been working on lots of logo's this week, and I've still got quite a few to get done but here is one that I am really pleased with. Today I will also be animating this and I will post up how that looks as soon as I can.

Also this week I've started work on producing the character designs for an animation show that I am working on with my design partner at LOOK animation. We are actually working on 6 proposals in total, ideas which range from 3D based children programs to cartoons that would be targeted at teens +. Here are some examples of the initial sketch work for one of those ideas and over the next three weeks I'll hopefully get up all of the finished designs for each idea and examples of their progress. The artwork below is for Memoirs of a bar steward, which would be for viewers who enjoy shows such as Family Guy, South Park and King of the Hill.

Two great books about Disney

A few weeks ago I finished the Bob Thomas biography about Walt Disney, which I thought was a fascinating read about how one man (well two, he couldn't have done it without his lifetime partner and brother Roy O Disney) took his garage business and turned it into a billion dollar empire, which was purely down to his willingness to take great risks, which obviously reaped great rewards.

Obviously the Disney story didn't end with Walt's death and it went on to have a second golden age in the early 90's, which I would say started with the Little Mermaid, hit it peak with The Lion King and probably ended with Hercules (Maybe before, though I think that is a better film than it was credited for). So I found a second book called Disney War which I am half way through, which I think is a brilliant read also. A little slow to start, mainly because in a corporate board ran company there are a lot of people to get familiar with but once you understand who the main players are, and how they all pretty much stab each other in the back like medieval royalty, it makes for another fascinating read.

In the beginning I was just looking to read good books about animation, but the story behind this power company has kept me enthralled and I highly recommend both books