Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Doodle?

doo·dle1 [dood-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun –verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.to draw or scribble idly: He doodled during the whole lecture.
2.to waste (time) in aimless or foolish activity.
3.Dialect. to deceive; cheat.
–noun
4.a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.
5.Archaic. a foolish or silly person.
Hey bloggers! Been busy ass hell working on a whole slum of pilots and a variety of TV series. This is a page of doodles I did in between animating on the new hit animated series EL-TIGRE. I thought I'd throw this out since I haven't posted any "doodles" in a while, and boy does it show! It sure was fun to break away from the mindless key framing and 'tweening in Flash, something I should do more often.

Recently I've been fishin' around in the blog ponds and happin' to snag a doodle or two from others. Funny thing though, they claimed them to be doodles, but they were far from what the definition above describes. They were more clean than most of my cleaned up pieces of dung, on top of that they had a nice treatment of color. Looks great, but far from a waste of time, haphazard, mindless scribble. Maybe it's just me. I've been far from scribblin' on the paper and mostly pushing those symbols around. Damn Flash!!! My best bet is to just reach deep, deep, deep down in the pockets for some change and pick up one of those fancy Cintiq's. Maybe, just maybe then will my doodles sparkle like one of those I caught in the blog pond. Anyway that's my rant of the day don't mind me, I think it's just the weather. Have a happy DOODLE DANDY DAY everybody !!!

3 comments:

TURCIOS said...

fantastic blog and illustrations!!

Stephen Studios said...

El-Tigre is one hell of a show! It must be awesome "animating" it!

Rob Lilly said...

Turcios thanx for positive feedback. Feel free to give a honest critque anytime. Take no prisoners!
Stephen- Yeah the show is a blast to work on! No worries of ever getting board, the show is packed with action sequences one after the other. El Tigre is one tight package and it shows on the screen. Great characters!