My side project of the year.

I'm sort of working on and off a side project to keep my art side happy. My work at Boeing isnt art related at all - so I do what I can in between times . Heh - when I'm not playing WoW that is >.<

I've taken it upon myself to work on a re-animation of my absolute favorite G1 Transformers Episode: Webworld. It's Season 3, and that was a most terrible year for the series, the year that killed it in many fan's eyes. The art production quality plummeted downhill, and everyone's fav characters where dead from the previous movie. Most of what I think led to it's death was the fall in production value. Some Season 3 TF episodes are so bad they make any somewhat experienced animator what to tear their eyeballs out and jab them with pencils!! Very sad really - the toyline was still selling many toys, but the cartoon production that was selling it wasn't getting any of that money to promote it. Greed - it's kills.

since TF G1 is an Anime - in Season 3 you can tell they went to many different production houses. You can see this in the many different styles from episode to episode. Some of it was a good thing - when they actually had a good production houses that followed the model and color sheets and did somethings right. Some drawings and scenes are pretty darn fantastic! Others are horribly chinese cheap. This is, was a common practice in the East, and is so in the West. Whatever production house can get it done the fastest & the cheapest... Which that brings a whole ethics violation arguement into things ... but that's dead horse beating at this point. The animation industry still practices this method wholeheartedly today, BTW. ;)

On the Art aspect, if you stick with a central production place ... and ppl. You'll get a consistant and defined look for your toon. Instead of jumping around all over the place that's what they should have done. I think Marvel, and the main animation ppl they had in Japan on TF probly spent more money jumping around than they could have saved sticking with one place. But, I'm not a financial analyst - I'm an artist.

So - I've decided to re-do my favorite episode: Webworld

Below will be the synopsis and my drawings n stuff as I get them. I have a way of "lifting" the original audio off the episode. So I've got all that covered. All I need to do it draw. Now - my animation isn't going to be WB - full animation Bug's Bunny fluid style. It will be Flash limited, but I'm not going for a Nobel Grand Prize in animation here. I'm just trying to have fun. Fun illustrating, fun picking appart the episode, getting into the characters, and fun giving them my little edge.