Robot Chicken DC Special Write Up

In January 2012 I was offered a freelance story job for the Robot Chicken DC Special. The show had moved to a different studio and reached out to me since I had worked with them before. Like a moron, I took the job despite already working full time as a story artist on the LEGO movie at Animal Logic.

I met with the director and he walked me through the first 20 pages (of a 60 page script), which was all that I could feasibly do in the time I had, since I could only work weekends, and a few hours after working a full day on LEGO. But, I somehow managed to complete what I promised, and here's some of the stuff I boarded:

RCDC, "Opening"

 

RCDC, "Aquaman and the Invisible Jet":

RCDC, "Deadman Waits for No One" (not made):

RCDC, "That's Bane! #2":

And that's that!

EDIT: Sweet, looks like Adult Swim has the whole episode on their channel.

Spy poster

I draw a comic on the side called Carzorthade, which is about a kid's online avatars, specifically his forum and chat usernames, crossing over into his world. Along the way I introduced a few new characters, some of which entered permanently into the cast, others gained a spin-off series, and some vanished entirely.

One of the characters, Campion Blaine, an obvious parody of James Bond, was one character that was almost entirely forgotten. That is, until a comic-making friend sent me a few guest comics with Blaine in the starring role. I enjoyed them so much I asked him to take the character for himself, which he declined. Instead, he wrote a small miniseries and asked if I wanted to illustrate them. The material was so good I immediately agreed. However, this was in the middle of college which was taking more and more of my spare time, causing me to drop comics altogether.

Well, I'm managing my time more efficiently now.


I drew a lot of inspiration from this:


This was an experiment as the inks are in Flash, and the colors in Photoshop. Previously, I only made comics in Flash. However, my previous job (the one I was laid off from) gave me a lot of work involving Photoshop so I've since become more comfortable with layers, brushes, and colors. I'm hoping that as I draw the actual comics, which I'll upload here, I can continue to experiment with brushes, color, and texture.