That’s right, suckers. MORE leftovers.

This scene was cut on the account of the angry eyes. Apparently, hooded eyes frightens children, or so I was told many times. What? the same wee ones that are spray painting graffiti behind my house, or the fat tikes at home playing violent video games? Well, I guess kids in after school chess programs might be part of the upper crust and have more delicate sensibilities. I wouldn’t know, I don’t play chess.

Mistake No.1 Uh, oh. “Dot eyes”. I don’t know why I bother with them. Clients ALWAYS hate them. ALWAYS.

Mistake No.2 I made a black guy look black. When a client says they want a”multi-cultural cast,” what they really man is “Draw Caucasians and color them brown.”

For some kooky, goofy reason, this background was changed to green. Yes, everything fell apart after that.

As you no doubt have already guessed, The Indian robot turns into a house and the Italian ‘bot turns into the Leaning Tower Of Pisa AND the Effel Tower, of course(?)

I don’t remember anything about this one. I kinda like it. Painter is good for sponge effects.

This one looked really jagged and pixelated on the screen. Gotta keep those outlines, I guess.

New stuff to come, I promise.

I contemplated suicide today, but decided that I didn’t want my last piece of “art” to be an animated short about braces shaped like chess pieces.

Enjoy!

chick here for ch*ssm*le animation

Hey Kids! Here’s a fun design for you, this is to say, if you find skinny old birds with huge beaks a whole lotta fun. I know I do, kids. I know I do.

Customarily, I send clients lots of  different sketches to choose from when “designing” a character for me to poorly “animate”.  This time, however, I broke the mold then jumped the gun, took the bull by the horns and other metaphors I don’t quite understand. What I am trying t’say here is, sometimes a character’s greatness may not be apparent at first glance. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him dig it, y’know?

I think deserve a raise for coming up with this soon-to-be-beloved  character for K**C****! I am more than sure they don’t mind me telling all of you that either.

Ordinary I am not allowed to post my commercial animation here. Today is no exception.

Hey, it isn’t every day you get asked to animated a buncha charcters spitting out their respective beverages in disbelief.  Well, maybe YOU do, but I don’t.

Anyhoo, here’s some animated gifs. Sans backgrounds, animation, fun  and/or other sensitive material.

Jeez lousie! It’s been a while scene my last post. Sorry, dudes. For once the reason ISN’T my Brian Wilsonesque freakout and subsequent exile. No sir, this time it’s becasue I am knee deep in top secret projects, including the stuff I am posting here today! shhhhh…

Uh, just pretend they are moving around and saying junk.

That’s enough for now, I suppose. Back to  the grind.

Can you keep a secret?

Neither can I! At any rate, enjoy some designs for a super-hush-hush animation project I am working on. Hopefully it’ll be out this year, or the next 10. I am not holding my breath.

Remember kids, brush dem teeth!

It’s been a busy time, here at Lattaland. I’ve been pushing a lot of pixels and punching a lot of walls.

As you no doubt noticed, I’ve been posting less frequently as of late. Truth be told, friends, most of the work I’ve been doing would bore the pants off the lot of you, or, in some cases, bore the pants back on you.

This doesn’t apply to you, whatever current client that just-so-happens to be reading this!

Anyway, here’s screen caps and designs for some flash animation that the client would prefer (and rightfully so) that I didn’t post here.

What else? I guess that’s it for now. Hang tight, true believers!

Chocolate and peanut butter.

Flowers and bees.

Chess and hip-hop.

Some things were made to be together.

The directive for this one: make a King and a Rook look like rappers. Not unlike Tupac, this rapper was shot down for being too edgy.

Hmm, How do you make  a rapper more family friendly? Why going back in time when rappers rapped about having a good time and nothing else, that’s what you do!

I went for a vintage, I mean “old school”, look.  Of course the powers that be ( I mean, the “man”) shot this down on the grounds that kids won’t “get” the reference to the 80’s. Personally, I disagree. That’s like saying I wouldn’t have recognized a hippie as a child, because that, too, was 20 years before my time.  Jeez, I’m old.

Speaking of being old and out of touch, I was instructed to give them modern rap duds. Oh, and I was told not to make the pants too baggy, after all schools are having a problem with that.

So there you go. Rapping chess pieces.

Quantity over quality is the Lattaland way!