The Awesome Chronicles of Manny and Khan; part 3

Our Characters; Manny and Khan


Above: A small rough sketch I did a few months ago
Below: Drawings done by our Character Designer Dan Thompson

The Awesome Chronicles of Manny and Khan; part 2

Our Backgrounds

The Art Direction I am trying for is a sort of vignette style background. The idea is that the least important parts of the background will fade off gradually into the surrounding areas of the scene. creating a frame for the characters action in a sort of nonconventional way.

Below: Two rough backgrounds from our show. They were drawn by the amazingly talented Chris Tsiriotis.

The Awesome Chronicles of Manny and Khan; part 1

Recording Our Script

On September 24th 2008 Josh and I recorded our script with the guidance of Kris Zimmerman our Voice Director. We cast Keith Ferguson to play the role of Khan and Adam Paul to play Manny. Both Keith and Adam added so much depth to our characters. Their phenomenal voice work made our silly drawings feel so real.



Above: Keith Ferguson, Me, Josh Lieberman, and Adam Paul in the recording booth at Cartoon Network

Above: Me and Keith eatin' some snacks

Above: Josh with our Voice Director Kris Zimmerman

Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy

A few months back I did a logo design for a production company called Main Street Pictures which is producing a web series called Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy . The web series is a cavalcade of 1 minute short films produced by the creator of Family Guy - Seth MacFarlane. A new short will air every week for the next few months. I designed the title and the movie theater which is on the web page and at the beginning of every short. The shorts can be seen at Sethcomedy.com or on youtube .



Special thanks to the guys over at Main Street Pictures ; Mike Bodkin, Andrew Egiziano , and Aaron Parry. These guys are probably the three hardest working people in animation.

Character Clean-up and Character Layout

This first page of drawings are my Cleanups of Shannon Tindle's character designs for Fosters Home

It turned out we needed 3/4 views as well. These second two pages of drawings are my Rough Character Layouts of the previous characters.

The End is Finally Here :(

Three years, three months, eight days, and fifty-two episodes later and my work here on Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends is done. Not a bad run if I do say so myself.

Goodbye Susy

My friend Susy is leaving Cartoon Network next week to work on the new Cleveland Show on Fox. A few years ago Susy was our intern here on Fosters back when I was working as a PC. She climbed the ranks quickly and when I moved from PC to Clean-up she took over for me. She has done a great job and I will miss her.

I did this drawing for her last night after work. I hope she is ready for the "Family Guy" sense of Humor cause it is just a little bit harsher then Fosters... just a little bit. Don't get me wrong, I think Family Guy is hysterical - Im just sayin'. This reminds me of that time...