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
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!
