We're closing in on delivering our shows so that means it's title card time. These ones were designed by Avery, Garnet-Syborg Olsen, Jayson Thiessen and Ridd Sorenson
and painted up real pretty by the lovely and talented Jessica Borutski. - Cindy
Monday, December 19, 2005
Friday, August 5, 2005
We are starting to see animation come in from Renegade Animation in Glendale, California.
They are doing a super job!Here is a very tiny teaser. We're still working on important issues. More to come!
BTW, go check out Renegade's website! renegadeanimation.com
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Sunday, July 10, 2005
FATKAT ANIMATES CONNOR AND SPARKY
Well, looks like Fatkat Animation Studios from Miramichi, New Brunswick has just beginning to animate the show.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Just saw some really cool animated scenes from Studio B and Here's a few screenshots done by the animators.
Here's one from our first episode by series director, Jayson Thiessen.
.Here's one for an episode called "Panda-Monium" by Dallas Parker and revised by Eric J. Pringle (Currently on Foster's)
And here's one by Tim Stuby and James Wootton.
Enjoy! - Tabitha
Monday, May 23, 2005
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Guess what, faithful followers… it’s time for all of us to start work on the show! (Not that we haven’t been doing that all along…heh heh :P)
We will all be packing up and heading “overseas”–aka over the Hudson River to Los Angeles and Vancouver, where the fine folks at Film Roman and Studio B Productions will start storyboarding, designing, and preparations for me and the others for Flash animation! We’ll continue to blog from Los Angeles, of course, so everyone can get the inside scoop about what it takes to be “a Flash Animated CELEBRITY!!!”
More to come when I know more - Tabitha
Monday, April 11, 2005
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
LOOK OUT AMERICA! CONNOR AND SPARKY ARE COMING!
Sunday, March 6, 2005
Oaksdale Voice Cast!
Tabitha here! I’m so excited! We’ve finally decided who’s going to be doing our voices! We’ve listened to so many auditions our ears have just about fallen off.
Anyways. Here’s the cast list!! *squee!*
Connor, Tabitha (the one that created the post) - Tabitha St. Germain
Sparky, The Arm Destroyer, Mayor Lincoin - Ian James Corlett
Cindy, Delilah, Mandy - Kathleen Barr
Junior, Arnold, Professor Gidgetwey - Brian Drummond
Bernard - Louis Chrillo
Guppy Sr. - Trevor Devall
Violet - Rebecca Shoichet
Himori - Kelly Sheridan
Pete, Mr. Kearburst - Scott McNeil
Frankie, Janice - Andrea Libman
Francesca - Kelly Metzger
Guppy Jr. - Erin Matthews
Micheal - Lee Tockar
Layla - Chiara Zanni
Stacy - Jillian Michaels
This is going to be our super talented Oaksdale voicing family. There are many, many more brilliant voice actors who have made our record sessions a blast to be at. Avery also gets to do other characters if needed.
All voice directed by Terry Klassen who also happens to be part of the voice cast. - Tabitha
Friday, February 18, 2005
Storyboarding Time!
Hey Oaksdalers! Connor here. This week we've have been busy boarding the first episode. We will eventually have many storyboard artists working on the show but Avery wanted to do the first one to help set the style and tone of the show.
It's very exciting to see us take the next step towards truly coming to life!
More to come! - Connor
Sunday, February 6, 2005
A SMATTERING OF BACKGROUND DESIGNS FROM THE SHOW
Hey everybody! Finally some eye candy.
What you're looking at are background designs pulled from the show. Cumulatively, they should start to give you a sense of the visual style we've developed for the show. It's a design sensibility that echoes a brand of animation pioneered in the 40's and 50's by an innovative animation studio known as UPA. In industry circles, of which I try to avoid at all costs, this style of animation is known as LIMITED animation and it was a bold stylistic choice made in reaction to the hyper-realism of the Disney stuff that was coming out at the time. It's a a very cool look that our show's DIRECTORS, Jayson Thiessen and Greg Sullivan, ART DIRECTOR Peter Michail, and EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Chris Bartleman and Blair Peters drew upon as they hatched the visual rules of the Connor and Sparky Show. While the UPA style dates back to the 50's, it reached its zenith point in popularity during the 70's and that's DEFINITELY an ERA we're trying to evoke. There's a sweet, happy, vaguely trippy quality about the mood and tone of our show that screams the 50's. Additionally, this animation style lends itself perfectly to comedy. It allowed us to create a signature look that never upstages the actors but rather makes them stand out and really pop. Enjoy and we'll be back with more visuals in the coming weeks... Thanks!
Oaksdale Park
Oaksdale Beach
Sparky's Doghouse
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Double Album
Apologies for going AWOL. We just delivered the last 2 scripts to our animation studio in Vancouver (Studio B). They're doing a brilliant job adapting the visuals and I hope to have some cool stuff to share with y'all in the coming days!!
We also wrapped the bulk of our writing last week and will now begin plowing through storyboards.
Plus, well, I always get sucker punched by late may--wife's birthday, wedding anniversary, mother's day (always mid to late may in the states). It's a formidable and often debilitating tri-fecta of celebrations that leaves me holding the ropes and calling for my cut man!
What this has to do with the blog is obvious: Nothing. Absolutely nothing!
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
How it all began...
In 1999, when Kearplax started taking its first steps there were just 6 or 7 people in the company, nearly all of us were still linked to a former business project which had been really successful (we had made it to a staff figure of 500 with offices throughout America) … but unfortunately, when the internet bubble exploded, we exploded with it! What a lesson in humility… Teknoland was an online consultancy service dedicated to providing services for major client accounts, but the rising and falling stock exchange got too much for us in the end and when things got ugly, the clients simply looked for another company …
And what has this got to do with Connor and Sparky Show? … Right from the start in Kearplax, we decided we wanted to be a company that made its own products, that would always be market leaders and would change the work focus. As well as the gratification of creating the company, we would be the founders of something great that would withstand the difficult times and would not be dependent upon the loyalty of its clients.
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