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OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo Original Short: KO

Hey! Here’s the first original short with FULL CREDITS listed under the cut!

Last year the fine folks at Cartoon Network gave us the chance to create shorts to get the word out about the OK K.O.! Game! We get to do original shorts based on a game?! What!!!! Cartoon Network fully believes in the game and the idea so doing a cartoon for it was a no-brainer!

The idea for this short came from the development process between us and the game developers at Double Stallion.

We all felt super good about the controls, the punching, the throwing and the ground-pounding all felt great. The team had the brilliant idea to add slide kicks to KO’s moveset which was awesome! I collaborated with the games’ Art Director Eric Angelillo on the ingame animation:

Slide-kicking eventually became so fun that I was doing it all the time in the game, which influenced the story for this short! (Storyboarded by Toby JonesandStu Livingston)

In a chance of a lifetime, I got to work with one of my FAVORITE studios, Science SARU on the creation of this short. The studio is headed by Masaaki Yuasa and Eunyoung Choi who are both huge inspirations for me. I got the chance to visit the studio during my visit to Japan last year and they are doing some amazing, next-level stuff. I’m completely humbled that they wanted to work with us and I really enjoy the energetic direction of this short which was thanks to Abel Gongora and Juan Manuel Laguna. We used several of the elements from the old pilot, but as you can see, Science SARU gave the look a distinctive twist!

FULL CREDITS UNDER THE CUT! 

OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo
Short 501_238_001: “KO”

Created by
Ian Jones-Quartey

Supervising Director
Toby Jones

Storyboarded by
Toby Jones
Stu Livingston

Producer
Jackie Buscarino
Janet Dimon

Animation Produced by
Science SARU

Animation Director
Abel Gongora
Juan Manuel Laguna

Animators
Junya Otake
Karin Noguchi
Tatsunari Karube
Chika Okubo
Fumiyuki Uehara
Toma Kimura

Compositing
Batiste Perron

Background
Batiste Perron
Lucille Briand

Animatic Editor
Lauren Hecht

Character Designers
Lamar Abrams
Danny Hynes

Background Designer
Tim Beckhardt

Background Painters
Martin Ansolabehere
Robert Iza

Color Key
Ron Russell

Featured Voices:

KO
Stephanie Nadolny

Radicles
Ian Jones-Quartey

Enid
Ashly Burch

Mr Gar
Dave Herman

Carol
Kate Flannery

Music
Jake Kaufman

Recording Studio Manager
Susy Campos

Recording Engineer
Robert Serda

Picture Editor
Mattaniah Adams

Post Production Audio Services Provided By
Sabre Media Studios

Sound Effects Editor
Alex Borquez

Re-Recording Mixers
Tony Orozco

Executive in Charge of Development
Katie Krentz

Executive Producers
Curtis Lelash
Jennifer Pelphrey

Executive Producers
Brian A. Miller
Rob Sorcher

“Cat Fingers” is on tonight at 8pm! This episode was a big collaborative effort between Rebecca,Ian,Hilary, and myself, along with a really sick sequence at the end boarded by then-revisionist Stu Livingston. Check it out!