More Fester Fan Art

Here are some cool pieces of fan art I got recently, in the wake of "Fester Makes Friends": This one's by Kevin Arsenault on DeviantArt.Fester graffiti by "Cormic IsNobody" or "Dick & Balls" as he likes to be known on FlickrAnd here's this "Pocket Fester" sewed by my friend Jane Archibald.Finally, here's a piece by Jesse Oliver.If you've drawn any Fester Fish fan art, send it to me and I'll post ...

Read More

Better version on Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/48257930Here's a higher quality version of Fester Makes Friends on Vimeo. It also fixes some minor technical issues that are in the earlier Youtube version such as certain scenes being one or two frames out of sync, and a couple of camera shakes where the edge of the background is visible. I noticed them before I uploaded the initial video but didn't have time to fix them. You might find it a little funnier now that the audio is more precisely synced up, for tighter comic timing.I've been working on Bakerman, watching...

Read More

Fester Makes Friends

Aaaaand here's the third Fester Fish cartoon, finally! Did I say it was coming out on the 22nd? I meant the 23rd. I just kept making typos, you see.From rough idea to finished short, this took me about a year. The story of Fester going around town trying to do good deeds and make new friends came out of a desire to expand the character's world and introduce some supporting characters, since people kept telling me to pitch Fester to a network but all I really had was him and his girlfriend. I don't know that any of the new characters in this short...

Read More

Fester Makes Friends Playlist

Here's what I've been listening to while I worked on Fester Makes Friends:Beach Boys - Friends and 20/20 (Break Away is an underrated gem, right up there with the best of their 60s output)Talking Heads - Remain in LightFrank Zappa - Hot RatsStereolab - Chemical Chords Various Urusei Yatsura soundtracksDynamite in the Brain podcastComedy Bang Bang podcast (my favourites are the episodes with Paul F. Tompkins, James Adomian or Neil Hamburg...

Read More

1 Day Left

1 DAY LEFT. START MAKING YOUR POPCO...

Read More

2 Days Left

Everything's going well and the cartoon should be ready for Wednesday as planned. I'm definitely going to be working on it up to the last minute before I upload it, but I think I've given myself the bare minimum amount of time needed to finish it properly. Which is exactly the kick in the pants I needed to get it done, so I can move onto my other jobs and projects.In less about 48 hours, you will get to see Fester meet a lady on a street corner with...

Read More

Catsuka page on Masaaki Yuasa

Taking a break from the Fester Fish countdown to post something I found really cool, and infinitely inspiring.I'm sure most animation fans are already aware of Catsuka, but until recently all I looked at on the site were the model sheet pages. Recently I stumbled across the "Focus On" pages, which are fantastic galleries and collections of videos related to specific animators. And there's one for Masaaki Yuasa! The site's mostly in french, but it's still pretty easy to navigate through. There are MADs of his animation, and a whole whack of...

Read More

3 Days Left

Here's a scene from "Fester Makes Friends" where Fester meets a sad little girl. Why is she so sad? You'll have to find out on August 22!3 DAYS LE...

Read More

4 Days Left

4 days till the new Fester Fish short comes out! In case you forgot what Fester looks like, it's something like this!4 DAYS LE...

Read More

5 Days Left

Here's a background drawing of Fester's house to remind you that there are only five days till the new Fester Fish short "Fester Makes Friends"!5 DAYS LE...

Read More

6 Days Left

6 days till Aug. 22 and the new Fester short! Here's a GIF of Fester driving in his car.6 DAYS LE...

Read More

7 Days Left

Here's a background (or at least, the main layer of the background) from Fester Makes Friends.7 DAYS LE...

Read More

Release Date for New Fester Short

I've only got a few shots left to animate, and a bunch of audio stuff to do. Other than that, this muthaclucka is pretty much ready to go. Fester Fish will return on August 22, 2012 in "Fester Makes Friends." It'll be about seven minutes long. I wanted to make it shorter because, you know, people don't watch anything over two minutes on the internet, but I just couldn't decide what to cut. So it's all in there! It's an epic tale of friendship (or...

Read More

Drawing Without Reference

At the latest comic jam we played a fun game where we try to quickly draw cartoon characters from memory. Often with disastrous results:This is the beast from Beauty and the Beast. BABAR, KING OF THE ELEPHANTS (I just realized that name sounds like the title of a bad 50s B-movie, especially if you shout it) Everyone's favourite gay bananasKrillin from Dragon Ball Z as Charlie Brown, complete with his spinning energy disc thing. I should've drawn...

Read More

They All Look the Same!

I went over to the comic shop yesterday, hoping to find some art that would inspire me with character designs I'm working on. I didn't bother looking at superhero books because I wanted something more cartoony, so I focused on indie comics and manga. Every time I saw an interesting character on a cover, I'd flip through the book and think "hey wait a minute, EVERY character looks like that first one." I'm not going to name any comics in particular, but I had forgotten just how many comics have a single original character design which they then...

Read More