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.

Ooops! I have a Blog ....Forgot again.

This image is from my recent children's book "Monster Truck Buck". 

Concept Art

Night after night I have been jolted awake by some hilarious ideas for a film. I decided to make time and start visually developing some of the concepts.

Watercolour, Pen and Ink on paper, 11" x 15".

Detail

I wanted to avoid painting digitally and get back to painting on paper.

Fine Art America Commercial - Images

I'm Back!

Oops …forgot I had a blog. Actually things have been pretty busy lately workin’ on a variety of projects which I will post here soon.

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.

Bug mugshots

These are some characters I created for a commercial I am working on. Rough sketches and final art.

 

Mosquito...

 

 Bedbug...

 

Ant...

 

 ah you know...

Cockroach...

This Nick Nolty mugshot (from www.thesmokinggun.com) was my reference for the last character - The Cockroach. Nick's lookin' like a animator in his Pixar issue Hawaiian shirt.

I wonder if there is a noticeable increase in ones animation skills while wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Just a thought - I notice a lot of animators wearing them. Does anyone out there have experience animating with and without a Hawaiian shirt?  Are they awarded after a certain level of achievement in animation?

John Lasseter thinks I'm on to something - thumbs up!
John Lasseter images are from here and here.

What the...!

When I create a character, I spend a lot of time sketching on paper. I keep the drawings very rough - at times working in an almost fast scribbling fashion. I'm just searching for interesting lines that will be the foundation of the character.

It doesn't always workout  - for this sketch I was actually attempting to come up with a really awesome design for a kid character.

Animatic - Steve the Super Hero

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

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.

Hello out there! ….Any one???

Welcome to my new blog!

My background is traditional animation ….I love animating pencil on paper. I hope to post projects here through the various stages on development. I am a self taught animator and divide my time between various commercial projects and my ever growing list of independent productions which are in various stages of …well… non-completion.

I will start things off with this illustration. He is a character I designed and hope to use for an up coming project. Sort of a mafia character. I seem to have a lot of mafia characters show up in my work….this will become evident as I post more stuff.