Slushing Brooks: The Blog

Jeff and Randy discuss THE PIT (1981)

2011-07-01T22:56:00.001-07:00

Jake Rosenschein now has a you tube channel

2011-06-29T12:22:00.000-07:00

Record Producer and sometime College Professor Jake Rosenschein, PhD.

enis' webcam

2011-06-26T14:37:00.001-07:00

Ralph Bakshi as Rite Aid Manager...

2011-06-09T20:51:00.000-07:00

I started to work on this scene awhile back, but then I put it on the back burner due to indecision as to what Enis Dingby looked and sounded like. But now that I think that's been sorted out, I am re-visiting animating this scene.

Animation legend Ralph Bakshi here does the voice of Enis' manager named 'Burt', here standing in the tooth-rot aisle.

Enis of course lives off-and-on welfare, but at this stage of his life is stocking shelves in the feminine hygiene section.

Jeff Twiller run cycle..

2011-06-08T12:03:00.000-07:00

Been practicing two-legged walk and run cycles with a few different Slushing characters. This one of course is Jeff Twiller.

*Inspired in part by a recent Michael Sporn blog post about the importance of getting both legs to move (http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2626) of which it seems like a lot of folks are neglecting in this modern day and age...

Enis Dingby

2011-06-07T12:01:00.000-07:00

some test footage of Enis Dingby...

Rod Holcomb

2011-05-26T11:14:00.000-07:00

Been playing around with how Rod Holcomb walks and talks. As CEO of Holcomb Security Services, Rod is a major player in the Slushing Brooks community. Little test clip here with a bit of color. Voice by Anthony Matt.

Slushing Brooks - VCR Repair

2011-05-20T21:06:00.000-07:00

Slushing Brooks - VCR Repair from Slushing Brooks on Vimeo.

life on the loading dock

2011-05-20T17:56:00.001-07:00

And here's another man who really enjoys his coffee

2011-05-16T18:15:00.000-07:00

Cover Art

2011-05-11T08:06:00.001-07:00

Close-Up

2011-05-09T17:32:00.001-07:00

a broken VCR in the year 2011...

2011-05-09T07:44:00.001-07:00

This is a man who really enjoys his coffee.

2011-05-07T12:47:00.000-07:00

Jeff and Randy talk Masters of the Universe (1987)

2011-04-30T11:10:00.001-07:00

The Underwear Invasion

2011-04-28T21:15:00.000-07:00

Usually I animate by drawing on paper and then scanning, but there are times when using the Wacom Tablet is so very expedient, and I quite like how it looks, such as this little invasion here of some underwear in a 'Slushing Brooks' scene I've been animating and cutting together...

The initial layer here in Toon Boom:

And with some hand painted underwear...

It's a really rare tape

2011-04-26T15:59:00.000-07:00

*background yet to be determined...

Color Grading Jeff and Randy

2011-04-23T16:06:00.000-07:00

Usually when it comes to color tweaking with these little Jeff and Randy movie reviews, I've been tending to just adjust the brightness/contrast and hue/saturation on the individual layers of animation that I composite together within After Effects. In terms of contrast, I usually try to make Jeff and Randy match, though they are quite different animals in terms of color. Jeff has pale and pasty skin, where as Randy spends more time out in the sun, probably often with his shirt off (hauling sand, operating a jackhammer, and whatever day labor he can get his hands on.) Today I decided to do things a little differently by applying an overall color grade to the comp. in Apple's Color software.

Here's the 'Before'

And here's the 'After'

And this here is Apple's very exciting Color interface:

Smoking Test

2011-04-17T13:51:00.000-07:00

Randy Smoking - Pencil Testing

2011-04-16T12:52:00.001-07:00

Randy smoking sketches.

2011-04-15T20:48:00.000-07:00

Smoking sketches

2011-04-12T19:35:00.001-07:00

The King of Medical Sales

2011-04-06T19:01:00.001-07:00

Keying Enis

2011-03-10T14:16:00.001-08:00

Jeff in AE

2011-03-01T22:12:00.001-08:00

this is where Jeff is keyed in with his environment.

Creating the Nail Salon.

2011-02-28T22:17:00.001-08:00

This is where the story begins. Well, sort of. The story begins in a few places.

This is where Rod Holcomb provides some much-needed security.

Inked onto acetate, and painted with Gouache and Acrylics.

The Randy Silkscreen Experiment

2011-02-28T22:13:00.000-08:00

Pharmacy

2011-02-28T22:04:00.000-08:00

This is the Pharmacy.

The world of Slushing Brooks...

2011-02-07T09:11:00.000-08:00

The Feminine Hygiene aisle

2011-02-06T11:50:00.000-08:00

2011-02-04T10:17:00.000-08:00

Drawing Rod

2011-02-02T11:34:00.001-08:00

Images from the Bus Stop

2011-02-01T16:58:00.000-08:00

The Slushing Scrapyard

2011-02-01T14:48:00.000-08:00