Monday, March 17, 2014

KENNY AND THE CHIMP LAYOUT DRAWINGS


A long time ago,
after a storyboard was done,
we did layout drawings:


They set up the scenes for
the overseas studios.


It put the characters a bit more on model
and served as waypoints for the animators.








These days storyboards are
MUCH MORE
meticulously posed out
and then cut together with the voices
to make an animatic.
So layouts aren't all 
that necessary.

Some shows 
(like The Simpsons)
do both layouts and animatics.
But most productions don't have 
the time or budget.

Still, it's nice to find some old ones in the archive!

 SOOPER ADDED BONUS:

After we recorded Kenny and the Chimp
I had all the voice actors 
sign the storyboard:


That's
Tom Kenny as Kenny
Frank Welker as Chimpy and Professor XXXL
Greg Berger as Hotline Voice
Candi Milo as Salmonella Fitzgerald
Eddie Deezen as Ice Cream Guy

2 comments:

Cole R said...

I didn't know layouts (and key poses?) were so outmoded in tv animation these days. Feels like it's a really key step in blocking out what the show will look like. What happens in between making an animatic with really tight boards and actually drawing/animating the characters as they appear in the show?

Anonymous said...

Off-topic: Do you have any plans for a KND thing in the future?