HEY! In honor of OUR FIRST EVER DVD IN STORES NOW, Cartoon Network is doing a giveaway contest OVER ON INSTAGRAM! Win an exclusive OK K.O.! Mini arcade machine! Many will enter, few will win.
Hey All, I just wanted to post some explorations I did for Sunshine from OK KO that I did. It was one of the last things I got to do before leaving the show but @stevieborbolla approached me early on asking me to throw some ideas out for her. I was only told that she was supposed to be weather based as well as be able to quickly shift from being peppy to scary depending on how happy she was with her students!
I’m really glad I got to be a part of the initial design process for her and I loved what the boarders were able to do with her. Please check out @juliasrednicki‘s work as she did the model sheet! Also amazing work from all the boarders especially @haewon-leeand@dannyducker who thought of some really cool solutions for her design!
There’s no dedicated OK K.O.! panel this year but we will be represented here:
SATURDAY, JULY 21!
CARTOON NETWORK CREATORS: DRAWING ON INSPIRATION 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. | Room 25ABC Meet the creators of Cartoon Network’s most beloved and exciting new shows! This talented group of creative leaders will share why they were inspired to get into animation, highlights of their paths to becoming show runners and insights on what it takes to bring stories to life. They’ll also reveal some exciting news about… well, you’ll have to come to find out! Join Matt Burnett and Ben Levin from Craig of the Creek, Daniel Chong from We Bare Bears, Diego Molano from Victor & Valentino and Julia Pott from Summer Camp Island, moderated by Ian Jones-Quartey from OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes.
There’s gonna be exclusive behind the scenes stuff from all the shows represented and never-before-seen OK K.O.! material! Don’t miss it!
And if you want the above signing poster, you can only get it at the CN Creators Signing:
a professor sunshine drawing i forgot to include in my point prep sketch roundup! julia reminded me to post it, hehe
i was really inspired by the way haewon manipulated sunshine’s hair to display her emotional state in the megafootball ep, and some cool explorations brandon drew while her design was being figured out, so i wanted to include a scene in mystery sleepover that featured more of that
i love melodrama and characters that are living mood rings!!!
Here are some designs from Mega Football, plus bonus Elodie in pjs from Mystery Sleepover! It was delightful to draw from @scrotumnoseand@haewon-lee ‘s cute and very action packed boards for this ep! And @dannyduckerand@killapede did a great job figuring out elodie’s v princessy look for Sleepover. Also, mega football features @miraongchua‘s character Glitter Starlight in a major role, so she’s finally got a back view! Amazing colors by @kalidraws and art direction by John Pham!
hi there, i wanna talk about “SPECIAL DELIVERY” because it aired yesterday and is really really ~SPECIAL~ to me!
this episode is the first one anna & i boarded together, and was really challenging in a way i don’t think we expected, but it ended up being my favorite episode i’ve worked on to-date. anna is a total pro, and i feel so lucky to have them as my board partner!!!
SD also features an original song by OK KO’s resident punk, BG painter william gibbons!! during the pitch phase i used a motion city soundtrack song as a stand-in for the sing along (which you can watch above!) and asked william about creating a song for the sequence before it went to animatic. he completely nailed the feeling and sound i was thinking of, and from there our animatic timer nick worked some insane editing magic to really plus everything up! you can see that the version i was pitching was pretty barebones in comparison. he made it super memorable and fun!
this ep was such a collaborative effort from the whole team, from revisions to editing to the animators at sunmin, and i hope you all enjoyed it. check out the rest of the new OK KO episodes airing all week, and be nice to your friends!!!
Our first OK KO miniseries aired yesterday, and continues airing all week! The crew all worked so hard on this thing and we hope you love it! Wisdom, Strength, and Charisma was boarded by @stevieborbollaand@ryannshannon, and they did a stellar job establishing the world of Point Prep. It was a challenge to design every character introduced here, since they all needed to work as the final design for every subsequent ep in the miniseries. I referenced literally everyone’s boards and concepts for this batch! Koala princess was created by @ianjq, hopefully he will post her original concept drawing! I referenced @miraongchuaand@cartoonfuntime‘s boards as well both for her and Miss Pastel. Phoebe was originally @dannyducker‘s character as well, but I based her final design off the way @scrotumnose drew her in Mega Football & beefed her up a bunch. And finally, @brandonwuart did concepts for Miss Sunshine, so I based her final model off both his concepts and the boarders’ drawings of her throughout the series. @kalidraws also worked so hard and did an amazing job on the colors! I love all these characters and I hope you do too!
TRad and TEnid from Let’s Fight to the End! I did the top monochromatic version a bit early so we could send the designs to @porigoshi so he could start animating the amazing fight sequence from the second half of the episode! As always, these were a huge collab! @ianjq drew concepts for both of them, and @killapede designed the concepts for TEnid and @dannyducker designed TRad specifically - they all came up with super fun poses and ideas. I had so much fun w/their final designs - I love drawing flying characters! They were also brought to life w/boards and animation by @killapede,@maxcollins,@stevieborbolla , Kofi Fiagome, and @porigoshi ! The beautiful final colors were designed by @kalidraws - art direction was by Kali as well! We all put a ton of love into the finale and we hope you all loved it too! <3
The OK KO series finale airs tonight! Working on this show from before episode 1 to the very last episode with our amazing crew has meant so much to me. Tune in tonight at 7pm on CN to see how it all ends!
Happy Halloween! Monster Party aired on TV yesterday! This ep was so much fun. These are all based on @ryannshannonand@stevieborbolla ‘s beautiful boards! @ianjq did a lot of work/drawovers with me on the 3 girls’ designs as well to get em perfect, & Ben Bates did the models for Tanis and Winnie! @kalidraws worked so hard on the colors for all these night scenes, & John Pham helped us really sell the HB sequences! We were actually able to get the original Ghoul School model sheets for those scenes. It came out so good!
