This is a design for an animated kid’s show pitch.

My apologies to Mr. Warburton, illustrious creator of CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR. I can’t seem to get away from tree houses…

This is where those bug-fairy characters I posted last week live:

The characters for this show were to be fanciful and slightly silly insect/fairy hybrids. Yesterday’s, obviously, was a beetle. Today’s is a ladybug:

I’ve been a production designer for animated cartoons off and on for over 15 years. I have been primarily a background designer (Codename: Kids Next Door, Pepper Ann, Stroker & Hoop, Robotomy, etc…). It’s been a very long time since I designed characters, but recently I had the opportunity to try my hand at it for a project in the early stages of development.  This week I’ll be posting some of the images from the project, starting with a few of the characters:

This unused design is from a recent secret development project:

I am in the primitive stages of learning After Effects. Julie suggested that a good way to dive in would be to take one of our collaborative drawings and make it move, so that’s what I did. Here is the first in what will hopefully be a series of one-minute improvs.