Fun Art Fridays: The Thundercats' Tygra
Welcome the Thundercats' whip-cracking-wise-cat, Tygra!Tygra is probably one of my favorite characters from the show (second to Lion-O of course). I loved the fact that his design was based on a Tiger -- my all time favorite animal -- and his weapon of choice, his bolo-whip, was totally awesome! With a twirl of his whip he could b

Animation: SweetIM Doc Frankenstein
With this week's post, I'm bringing you another installment of SweetIM animation show and tell. I think we all know the drill by now, but above and below you'll find a video and stills showing a SweetIM animation from animatic to final animation. This week's animation is of Doctor Frankenstein and his monster. When coming up with ideas for the Halloween SweetIM animations, I really wanted to push interactivity with the user. I thought it was a really fun idea to have the Doc

KidzChores.com Backgrounds
When 2A! was in production with KidzChores.com, a website dedicated to making chores fun and rewarding for kids, we had to design all the elements that would be used in the site. In my last post about Kidz Chores, I shared our design work of the little girl avatar. Today, I’ll share some of the background scenes we created for the avatars to visit.This project called for a fun, cartoon style which I think we totally nailed with this first background. Mixing bright colors with rounded edges on the f

Graphic Novel: The Poochinos WIP!
Along with our work on The Poochinos animated short and Lost Episode, 2A! was also involved in developing an original comic book starring the gangster dogs! The comic was supposed to premier online then be printed and available for purchase through the Dog Mafia website, however as we’ve mentioned before, the client sadly put the project on hold for economic reasons. In any case, we are very proud of our work on the comic book and thought it’d be cool to share some of the pages with you.The first is

Monday Morning Motivators: Graves
We hope everyone had a great Halloween this past weekend! While it may officially be November, we're still in a ghoulish mood and have decided to keep our Halloween sketches going for another week. So this week's theme is... Graves! Mwhahahahahahahahaha! ;)Monday Morning Motivators are a chance for us to pick a theme -- preferably something we normally wouldn't draw -- and spend the first hour of each week sketching. The sketches can be very loose or super tight, but the point is to work out the weekend stiffness and draw something new.