Realistic Muppets

New episode of SMDG which you should listen to or at least subscribe to on iTunes so we look popular...

I actually did this a while ago for a different project that didn't get picked up, but it goes with my continuing series of realistic characters like Alvin and the Chipmunks, Care Bears, and Denver the Last Dinosaur. Yep, I've got myself a real series of pieces here. Someone should contact Gallery1988.

Shows George Lucas SHOULD have done.

New episode of Saturday Morning Deathgrip, and it was Star Wars themed, thanks to an episode of the 80's show Ewoks.

I did character designs for a Wampa, Wookie (Chewie, natch) and a Tauntaun. Seemed obvious enough. And we all know that a Tauntaun-based show would be the most successful program in television history. Like the moon landing, only on a weekly basis.

I should have done a Rancor too.

Realistic Chipmunks

New episode of Saturday Morning Deathgrip available here.

We watched a Christmas episode of Alvin & the Chipmunks, so I decided to add to my growing collection "realistic takes on cartoon characters" (Like Denver the Last Dinosaur and Care Bears)

These are fun.  Also the character designs from the Chipmunks movies are not that great to me. They live in that weird world of cartoonish animals along side of real human actors, it's usually horrifying. Take a look at any of these examples (chances are, you never actually saw those movies).

If you want to take a cartoon into the real world, just go all the way.

It's Christmas, Logan

A new episode of the podcast is up. We watched X-men from the 90s, which is a show I friggin love.

It was the Christmas episode, "Have Yourself a Morlock Little Christmas" and one of the recurring themes is the Scrooge-like grumpiness of Wolverine. There was also a Christmas tree that was as sad as Charlie Brown's. So the picture kinda suggested itself.

Care Bears, emphasis on Bear.

A brand new episode of Saturday Morning Deathgrip means art. I think I say that everytime.

In honor of Thanksgiving, we watched a Thanksgiving episode of Care Bears. It was shockingly bad. I don't remember that show being that bad, but then again, I also don't remember watching it that much. 

Denver the Last Dinosaur proved to be a popular picture. And it was tough to come up with a theme for this show. So I recyled the concept of just a realistic version of the characters, and voila. That's Cheer Bear, who I think is some kind of happy bear, but I'm sure they all are. 

We did have the Care Bear's Christams record, but I'll be plum buggered if I remember what that was about. Other than Christmas. I'll also be plum buggered if I have any idea where the phrase "plum buggered" came from in my vocabulary.  

Anywho, give that episode of the podcast a listen, won't you?

Jem and the Holograms rooftop concert

New episode of Saturday Morning Deathgrip is up, and we watched "Jem and the Holograms".

For the art, I had some trouble, because I'd never seen this show before. But I do know that late in 1989, Jem and the Holograms had drifted apart creatively. Their computer generated images were becoming like weights around their collective neck. The strain had let to schisms between the girls. Not helping matters was the wane of synth-pop as a marketable music form. Since their instruments were all geared toward synth-pop, what could they do. Over the course of the year, the girls put aside their differences, and managed to assemble one last album, and, memorably, that winter, they climbed to the roof of the studio and performed their last concert. A truly, truly outrageous concert.

Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else.