#bluey
, the show I've had the pleasure of art directing, recently partnered with Disney for an international release!!! but all I can think about is how "Brisbone" is now a viable Kingdom Hearts world. 🗝
Happy Father's Day and happy sneak peak drop of
#Bluey
season 3 "Perfect". Here's a parody poster of one of my favourite perfectionism and burnout tales.
Yes, that’s right, this month’s
#InStyleAus
cover star is a cartoon dog. But not just any dog:
#ChilliHeeler
is the matriarch of the biggest & most famous Australian television export of all time,
@OfficialBlueyTV
.
Exclusive story:
Image: Ludo Studio
Since the other awesome Art Directors are sharing their goodies on the twitterscape, here's a thread of content I got to design for the first half of season 1 of Abc/Bbc's "Bluey" (starting with the best part of the job, colour roughs!)
Almost 6 year throwback to my coworker and I messing around in a now shut-down toys'r'us (RIP), making stupid inside jokes about a show that no one knew about yet.
@reco229
Yeah haha sadly we had to put limits how crazy and free we could get because these had to be engineered as powerful but easy to use animated rigs. But I'm happy it got to here! We learned heaps that challenged what we initially believed kids had to draw like after studying them.
Keep in mind, behind any and every animated production, no matter how grating or personally unappealing the visual trends they follow may be, are real people who definitely worked their hardest to see it come together. For some, it even could be their first industry credit.
Part 2 of season 3
#Bluey
is finally out internationally! Here are my favourite art direction creations I created for these eps. The colour roughs for "Space" hold a special place in my heart.
@AschVoided
I did that on my paper planning actually!! It helps a lot with the sillier looking stuff. You can't fake that haha otherwise your brain tries to subconsciously edit a lot.
Bingo is definitely a Princess of the Heart, Chattermax is a heartless boss, Judo's been norted, which is why she's light fur & mean, Jean Luc is Lucky's nobody that's why they look a like... it practically writes itself folks.
A selection of art direction I created for the rest of
#bluey
season 2. All the pretty finished visuals by our designers and bg & artists begin as these concepts :]
Little easter egg that appears for like two seconds in the latest ep "Show and Tell"!
Some crew members and I got to paint this Brisbane electrical box a year or two ago ~
Some art I made last year. It was phenomenal seeing her vibing in the air next to all the greats [':
Here's to another two years with new airborne friends
No I don't think you understand, I'm OBSESSED.
(Got a little too invested when asked to develop the elusive Cat Squad tv show in
#bluey
...and yes I've given them names, left to right: Cleo, Cooper and Cate)
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I'll try to share more content later! Army was particularly tasking & fun for environment design but I got the pleasure of designing Jack and the Russell Family (his sister was originally planned to play a role in another ep!)
He's a little lightning bolt of eagerness⚡️
The way people hate on women in television for having the slightest bit of complexity and toxicity in their characters while praising and or defending their favourite men who practically have a shining beacon of negative characteristics is never not baffling.
Sorry I'll stop soon but I'm just imagining field and battle music inspired by the show's intro...
Maybe also tragically amped up, Vector to the Heavens style boss battle rearrangement of the "poor little bug on the wall" song too lmaooo
The other day I saw a song cover using the voice of a child voice actor. Please consider what it must be like for them and their parents. How unsettling it could be to hear their disembodied voice say things never spoken.
Some paintings I made for
#bluey
's special Sleepytime ep. This was one of the wildest eps in terms of the rendering style/approaches & tech used. It was honestly a miracle (of hardwork) we accommodated such an ep into our usually simpler preschool show pipeline.
I also created some more Bluey-fied musicians/composers based on
@Jazzdarcy
and Daniel O'Brien.
Just some of the creative masterminds behind the album and stars of the Rain (Boldly in the Pretend) music video.
(Plus a
@joffbush
but he's a series og. 😎)
If anyone was curious, here's my old rough sketch for this since I remembered it existed! ✨😎 (I realise my draft title reads "pefect" I think the mistake is thematic)
Happy Father's Day and happy sneak peak drop of
#Bluey
season 3 "Perfect". Here's a parody poster of one of my favourite perfectionism and burnout tales.
#blueyspoilers
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Redesigning characters and assets for our special ep "Escape" was refreshingly engaging. It took us a while to figure out how to draw like kids again while still making the characters recognisable
@edmeadart
The rigging and animation team on Bluey always blew me away with what they could do. Our writer/creator (also an animator) always pushed the idea of making the rigs not feel cut out.
This character only appears briefly in today's episode
#bluey
Born Yesterday, but she was so much fun to design concepts for. (inspired by the ethereal looking saluki dog breed and a special guest voice talent✨)
viewers: hey uncle rad looks a little different in Nana's portrait from season 2 part 1.
me internally: hahahaha yeah what a tiny weird change, he totally didn't go through 20+ colour iterations before becoming the iconic beachy explosion he is now 🙃
#bluey
, the show I've had the pleasure of art directing, recently partnered with Disney for an international release!!! but all I can think about is how "Brisbone" is now a viable Kingdom Hearts world. 🗝
(See vide in thread to see my friend's entries and where mine fits!)
My entry to an art challenge I made with some friends! One person had to draw something and pass the art to the next (without any context of previous entries).
#characterdesign
It should be an art challenge to draw Pikachu as if you didn’t know what a Pikachu was, only working off of the description: “Electric mascot monster, must include yellow and red”
Here’s my take:
More of our season 2
#bluey
eps have aired! Here's another parody poster for an ep I particularly loved doing the visuals for. (Ice Cream is available now on ABC iview!)