Groom Boldly™ Myth Animated Commercial - Wolf Pits

Here is a new hand drawn animated commercial I did for Tame the Beast®. I have more of these in the works.

Product - Extreme Yawp Total Hair, Beard & Body Wash
Designed, Directed and Animated by Jason Doll - Animation Dog Studios
Website - http://www.animationdog.com
Voice Over by Bob Barnes

Groom Boldly™ Myth Animated Commercial

Here is a new animated commercial I did for Tame the Beast®

Product - Extreme Yawp Total Hair, Beard & Body Wash

Designed, Directed and Animated by Jason Doll - Animation Dog Studios
Website - http://www.animationdog.com

Voice Over by Bob Barnes

Confident Caveman

Caveman drawing with his junk blurred out, pencil on paper by Jason Doll. Some animated stuff with this guy coming soon.

LANE'S Pest Elimination Commercial

I have been meaning to post this commercial for a while.

Lanes TV Commercial - Animatic

Here is the animatic from a Lanes commercial. This is from an early stage of the production so it has a lot of rough pencil animation throughout. It also gives a pretty good look at some of the layers that make up the characters.

Fine Art America Commercial - Images

Fine Art America Commercial

Here is a Commercial I just competed for Fine Art America. I will post more production related stuff soon.

Voice-Over by Tim Simmons

 Artwork appearing in this commercial is by various Fine Art America Artists.

Walk Cycle Test

Wine Commercial - Layout

 These are some process images from a new commercial.

 This is my initial concept sketch of the shot. At first I wanted to have a giant  "Middle Man" in the center of the page who would grab these huge dollar bills from the customer, eat them, and spit out some small change at the winemaker. Once I began layout of the shot, I realized I wouldn't have the time needed to animate the shot in that way. So, I decided to go with more of a crowd scene to represent the "Middle Man". I figured it would be less complex to animate, and would illustrate the point just as effectively.

Below is the shot developing from a rough sketch to the final image.

When I create a crowd scene, when possible ...given the time ...I like to make sure it is made up of a variety of characters. Different faces and body types.

 

Background Sketch

Final Image

Linetest progression.

Animatic - Steve the Super Hero

A little rough in spots, and includes some tests for things that never made it into the final video.

STEVE THE SUPER HERO – Storyboards

As promised …more from the process.

Originally, I had Eric (the singer) as a floating head. I thought this would have been pretty funny. Also, creating walk cycles for a floating head is incredibly easy. I always throw this idea in mix when discussing a project with a new client - telling them it looks “magical …you know like Harry Potter”. However, the consensus was to give Eric a body. 

Steve the Super Hero - music video

Just adding STEVE THE SUPER HERO to the blog. Also, here is a link to the post on JERRY BECK's & AMID AMIDI's Cartoon brew. HERE.

Music by Eric Herman
 

More from STEVE THE SUPER HERO

This is another image from the STEVE THE SUPER HERO music video. I kept putting off animating this shot because I wasn’t completely sure what I wanted these BAD GUYS to be doing. I had a lot of elaborate ideas, but they were all too time consuming and I was beginning to run out of time for working on the video.

Then along comes the film, DREAMGIRLS. I had never seen it before - but when I saw this sequence I thought “Hey! That’s what I need for the BAD GUYS”, – so I created a simple cycle for the BAD GUYS, trying to give them a little bit of “Dreamgirls” mixed with a little “HEY! SOMETHING REALLY STINKS!” … So this is what I came up with….

This is a pencil test from the shot.

Character Design - Finding a character

Here is a character I created for a children's video called STEVE THE SUPER HERO. ( I’ll post the video later in the week )

The first image is a rough pencil sketch the other images are from the final video.

I had done a lot of sketches before finally drawing this one. It seemed well suited for the video and would be fun to animate. I do a lot of drawings….most of them CRAP! ….some not as much…before I eventually settle on a design for a character.

There is a lot of fun and life in the pencil sketch - I think the biggest challenge is not losing that with a clean line and colour.