My Cartoon Series: Xylus & Dexter in Space! Ep1 - Fly Right!
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| Xylus & Dexter in Space! (2003) |
Later on in 2003, I began to work on my own animated internet series for the Xylus and Dexter characters. I had been watching a lot of internet cartoons by this time and had learned how I could view them frame by frame so I could study how they were made. A few that were the most useful were, Elmo Aardvark which was made by Renegade Animation and Weekend Pussy Hunt by John Kricfalusi.
Concept
Xylus and Dexter are traveling through space, flying above the planet Mars when a slight mishap causes them to land earlier than expected.
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| Xylus & Dexter flying above Mars |
I spent more time on the layout of the storyboards for this series. I wanted to make sure I knew what everything was going to look like from the very beginning.
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| Storyboard: Rocket ext. Pan in |
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| Storyboard: Dexter turns to touch window |
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| Storyboard: Xylus pushes button |
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| Storyboard: Rocket ext. Mars surface |
I was still inking everything by hand on paper and scanning them into the computer. I would then convert the line art to vectors and clean them up in Flash and color them. I payed a lot more attention to the line art clean up this time. It was very intensive but the outcome is worth it I think.
Animation
For this series I decided to let Flash do the in-between animation for me. I started using the "squash and stretch" method ever so slightly to do it, nothing to exaggerated. Mainly cuz I didn't realize that it was okay to do that.
Audio
You may notice that Xylus' voice sounds a bit "different" than Dexter's. Well, when I did this episode he was at his mother's house for a few weeks and I had him record his part over the phone. So to make it look like it was supposed to sound that way I put a 2-way radio mic on his character. Seemed like a good reason for it sounding that way I thought?
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| Xylus with his 2-way radio mic |
Here's episode 1
Xylus & Dexter in Space! Ep. 1 - Fly Right! (2003)
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