Katzenjammer Studios

Barbarriiiannnnnn

2009-11-09T04:46:00.001-08:00

quick warm-up sketch yesterday.

-mike

HEY KIDS LOOK!

2009-11-04T12:51:00.000-08:00

AAAAAAAAANIMATION *kids scream*

finally man, roughing out my film. split up my animatic and scratch soundtrack into .fla's by scene. now i'm doin the fun part. probably won't be smiling like this when cleanup and color comes to towne.

- animation chris

Kung Fu Panda phone doodle!

2009-10-29T13:46:00.000-07:00

always staying productive :)

throwing 'em down

2009-10-29T05:12:00.001-07:00

been doing a lot of digital paintings. i now know what i need to work on and what i'm kinda lacking. gotta keep painting to finish them all for this film, finish this film, and apply what i've learned to the next go around.

- painty chris

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2009-10-21T02:39:00.001-07:00

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- alkjdfslkaf chris

Whoaaa Whooaaa, slow down, chief.

2009-10-16T20:42:00.000-07:00

Dallas trying to take diplomatic control of a situation.

-Mike

Flier.

2009-10-06T17:49:00.001-07:00

Silly event. Should be fun.

- Chris

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2009-10-01T14:09:00.001-07:00

s'gonna be a looooong weekend, clyde. no more comics for the next couple days. gotta get my mess together to maybe get some gainful employment. keep your fish sticks crossed.

- Chris

You know the drill...

2009-09-30T16:12:00.001-07:00

Starting to try some new idears.

- Chris

Fun With Ink

2009-09-24T21:44:00.001-07:00

Had a lot of fun with ink and watercolor this last week. great learning experiences acquired and fun comics created.

xoxo,
mike

Live Action!

2009-09-23T21:05:00.000-07:00

Working on my first LIVE ACTION project! Super excited about it. I'm working on it with mastermind James Martinez. I bet it's pretty unorthodox, but James suggested that we work from animatic (which I'm only all too happy to do, since that's what I'm familar with.

I want to do it really stylized, and I've got some wild lighting ideas (mostly stolen from Creepshow (so pulp comics) and Argento). I'm not sure what's gonna be possible for us, but I'm sure whatever we finally come out with will still be hilarious!

- Live Chris

The Mustache Teaser.

2009-09-16T01:23:00.000-07:00

Slick production still from Ryan Kramer's new film. Man, you guys are gonna LOVE this one hahaha. Shame all we can do for the time being is tease tease tease....

- Chris

Teaser.

2009-09-14T23:37:00.001-07:00

Quick scan. Trying to ink 14 comics this week. CAN HE DO IT FOLKS?! Toon in later this week and watch what it's like for quality to SUFFFFFER *spitting on the hard fff sound*

- Chris

Prelim Designs....

2009-09-10T17:08:00.000-07:00

Prelim design work for a cartoon I'm currently "writing" (hehe, is that cynical?). I'm trying to make SUPER SIMPLE, appealing character designs so they'll be easy to animate. If I strip off the superfluous details and stuff, I'll feel more comfortable pushing the animation as far as possible without lots of headaches over cleanup and such.

The character was gonna be a preacher but I think I'm going to make him a door to door salesman. The lightbulb shape should be easy to work with. I think the other primary character will be a little more tricky to design, but hopefully I can keep this level of simplicity.

Why am I writing more cartoons when I have a two 3 minute cartoons and a 7 minute cartoon to finish? *Sigh* Back to the drawing table...

- Crazy Chris

Tease tease tease...

2009-09-09T13:47:00.001-07:00

Less words, more pictures

And a pencil sketch for an ink piece I'd like to do soon for practice.

- Middle-of-the-Week Chris

Pencils.

2009-09-02T16:33:00.001-07:00

More comic teasers.

Gotta find some time to do some inks. Probably not anytime soon, trying to juggle all this film stuff.

- Chris

Poo poo pee doo.

2009-09-01T16:53:00.001-07:00

The roots of my immaturity can be clearly traced back to Betty Boop. Anyhoo, working on layouts for the next cartoon. I'm working right over the animatic (which you can see really faintly on the bøttom). Those are super loose drawings, and now I'm tightening them up (perspective grid and all) so I can get them into photoshop to do clean inks. Then I run them through to mill to color them with textures and the whole nine yards. God bless America.

Getting excited and trying to keep my nose to the grindstone. I think we'll launch for the new year. Then you can really confirm what a waste of time my life has been haha

- Full-Steam-Ahead Chris

Dallas Firing Off

2009-08-10T03:30:00.000-07:00

not just his mouth this time.

-mike

Comic Teasers again

2009-08-03T00:53:00.000-07:00

more tiny samples. been inking and scanning all week.

-mike

More Comic Teasers Coming Soon.

2009-07-29T22:57:00.001-07:00

I was breathing hard after I finished this last ink haha

Hope to get some voice recording for a HUGE project rolling pretty soon. In the meantime, comics and more personal shorter films. Anybody have cool approaches to voice directing they'd like to share?

- Chris

Dallas Quick Paint

2009-07-27T09:54:00.001-07:00

boy, oh boy. I gotta keep practicing. A quick paint of Dallas T. Washington while switching mental gears between projects.

-mike

dirty hippie scum

2009-07-20T03:30:00.000-07:00

some sketches of some lovable hippie scum. working it towards a comic.

-mike

The Fun World of Compositing.

2009-07-15T14:37:00.001-07:00

Click the image to see the screenshot in it's full glory.

One problem I'm coming across is web compression tho. The cel emulation technique (duped character layers, gaussian blurred and at a low opacity) and grain addition get just about lost in the mix when I shrink the video and it gets compressed (see the commercial down a couple posts). To my lament, I think I'm going to have to make two versions of each film. One high quality HD, and another one where the grain size and cel effects are pumped up for the smaller version for the web.

Any editors or other filmmakers have some thoughts? Is there a way I could cheat this? Mainly my stuff is going to be shown on the web, but I would like to make super high quality DVD's that would even look nice on the silver screen.

Anyway, back to work. Just gotta knock sound out on this bad boy, then I'm going to start doing voice work for the longest cartoon I've tackled to date! More to come!

That loveable scamp,
Chris

Viking Idiot Designs

2009-06-28T22:57:00.000-07:00

had some problems drawings some characters. So, after a thorough design critique from chris allison and sean kreiner i did these quickie idiot designs.

-mike

S'more Comic Teasing

2009-06-24T03:12:00.000-07:00

Some comic teazzzyyyy weeeezzzyyyys.

just shazzle I've been working on during some down time.
I'll throw up some scans of full comics some time early Augustish for anyone who likes super fat-kid jokes and the casual butt joke.

-xoxo
-mike