My Cartoon Series: Xylus & Dexter in Space! Ep2 - What's That?
Overview
This is Episode 2 of the internet cartoon series I made back in 2003 starring my kids Xylus and Dexter.
The original story was 17 pages but I broke it up into 2 minute episodes. I was on a Rocky & Bullwinkle kick at the time and I liked how they would tell a story over a series of episodes. Plus, since I was still learning, I could try out different things as I went along part to part. Kind of like the Rocky cartoons where one segment would look very different from another in the separate stories.
Cartoon
Xylus & Dexter in Space! Ep.2 - What's That?
Concept
The boys have crash landed on Mars in front of a creepy castle.
Art
For speed, I had stopped using a brush for inking and changed to Pigma Micron size 08 marker. It doesn't have the pressure sensitivity of the brush but gives a good solid black line.
Animation
I was able to use a lot of the body elements I made for the last episode. So all I needed to do was pose them in Flash and draw and add whatever new moving parts I needed for the different scenes. Like this shot of Dexter being surprised but Xylus.
Audio
I was now adding more sound as part of the animations, learning how this could enhance what was going on for movements. I started to get obsessed with collecting sound effects and was building up quite the library.
Next time we'll take a look at episode 3
This is Episode 2 of the internet cartoon series I made back in 2003 starring my kids Xylus and Dexter.
The original story was 17 pages but I broke it up into 2 minute episodes. I was on a Rocky & Bullwinkle kick at the time and I liked how they would tell a story over a series of episodes. Plus, since I was still learning, I could try out different things as I went along part to part. Kind of like the Rocky cartoons where one segment would look very different from another in the separate stories.
Cartoon
Xylus & Dexter in Space! Ep.2 - What's That?
Concept
The boys have crash landed on Mars in front of a creepy castle.
Art
For speed, I had stopped using a brush for inking and changed to Pigma Micron size 08 marker. It doesn't have the pressure sensitivity of the brush but gives a good solid black line.
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| Inked castle background |
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| Inked Mars background |
I was able to use a lot of the body elements I made for the last episode. So all I needed to do was pose them in Flash and draw and add whatever new moving parts I needed for the different scenes. Like this shot of Dexter being surprised but Xylus.
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| Dexter key elements |
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| Xylus key elements |
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| Scene layout with key elements colored and put in place |
I was now adding more sound as part of the animations, learning how this could enhance what was going on for movements. I started to get obsessed with collecting sound effects and was building up quite the library.
Next time we'll take a look at episode 3
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