Crackerland - Official Blog: February 2011

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Saturday, February 26, 2011

...this why i don't attempt to character design much.... Im glad I am starting life drawing again! Kaley is tough.. I'm trying to make her artsy girl ( I'm thinking her goal is to be animator/ or writer-storyteller...made up of few girls i known over the years)....but cute & appealing. Wise above her age, but not pretentious. She has her own style for sure. She has two tone color hair.. either blond/red streaks or reverse that...still working her out!

Artist: Les Carpenter

References

Katie Holmes: Pieces of April

Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Hayley Williams: Paramore

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Main Street FLA

Tacky tourist trap icons make up our entrance to Crackerland

Close up

Another view

End of Main street to Mr. Cracker's house

Artist: Kerry Tripp

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Artist profile: Lavalle Lee

I thought be nice to show the artists behind "Crackerland" & none better to start with than my friend & co- Creator from the beginning Lavalle Lee. I met Lavalle through Don Bluth online class in spring of 2009 where we hit up a friendship for our love of traditional animation. Lavalle had been a Flash animator since 2000 up in Minnesota , but decided he had enough of the long cold winters & moved to Florida with his girlfriend the just days before i join Don Bluth's site. That summer he wanted to me & him to make some flash cartoons for his web site. After many ideas that we bantered across from one another...Including a trio ( if memory serves) an Armadillo, A Flamingo & Cow set in college, trailer park & traveling carnival ... at lunch one day with lavalle..it hit us, of a story about Florida and roadside attractions & its rivalry with the big corporate theme park resort across the street! Crackerland just started flowing & it began. We thought it was much bigger idea than for Flash cartoon, we wanted it to be a cartoon, cartoon bringing back the glorious American art form traditional 2d animation. With help of others we have brought the characters to life ... but on a planet of billions its amazing how if i never met Lavalle "Crackerland" would truly been one of those forgotten roadside attractions.

His web sites- http://www.flashcartoons.org/original.php
http://learninganimation.blogspot.com/

Some of his art work