Back from a nice vacation; thanks for asking. I'll post some drawings of my sunburn later, but first, one of my favorite
Samurai Jack Episodes I designed on was
Episode #30 (I think)--the
Graveyard/ZOMBIE eps.! I believe this was one of the first ones
Jim Smith worked on as well, which was a real treat to work with one of my then heroes. I also loved any episode that I got to
commiserate/work with fellow
newbie/non-CalArt's alumn/outsider Shakeh Haghnazarian.
Man, that chick could design like nobody's business! Like I had previously posted: having gone through my boxes of drawings and miscellaneous doodles for
MY SKETCHBOOK, I had scanned a few from the stacks and piles. Here are a couple of my favorites...
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Like some other designers I know, I actually enjoy drawing
crowd scenes. I don't know, some of us either love it or loath it. Maybe it depends on the show, or
workload--but I think for me it was the challenge of piecing together shapes; trying to make things fit and read. It can be a
Tetris-like puzzle, but when it works, it works. Speaking of, I had a tendency to
overwork a lot of crowds on
Genndy's shows--eventually learning to simplify even more,
liquidating the design shapes to even more recognizable quick-reads. Plus,
I ran out of time! hahaha