#rought draft studios

[mashymilkiesinc]

The Pitts was originally a short lived, live-action TV show in 2003. It was pitched as "A LIVE-ACTION CARTOON" as it's characters and situations were very broad and cartoony. Nevertheless, it was cancelled after one, short season.

However, because it was created by Mike Scully, who has lots of bona fides in TV, The Pitts was resurrected to be an ACTUAL animated series in 2008. Unfortunately, it never got far into production before it was cancelled again. I was to direct at least one episode and was barely into storyboard when the axe fell.

I attach a link to see the Main Model Pack at top. It'll give you an idea what the characters and general look of the series.

The circa 2003 live action episodes are available on YouTube and they are a riot:

[omiramotakiart]

Rought draft of this silly thing, will write more tomorrow...

"All set to go, Mina darling?" Van Helsing's voice rang through the empty studio, wooden walls covered in cobwebs and dusty windows barely letting any light through places that weren't cracks made by bullets. 

Mina took a good look at the scene, some broken furniture older than Van Helsing himself, curtains scattered into the floor, red stains of the vital crimson liquid she came to associate with her former source of torment, she had no time to think of him, with fist clenched and a sigh she turned back to the already greying man who smiled and waited for her, "At least in here, If only John was here… I would ask him to boil some water for me, I'll need a hot bath after this…"

"Understandable, understandable, may I recommend a warm drink after? It soothes the spirit, darling."

"Probably will…" She looked back as she started to walk, Mina had to remind herself that the creature laying on the floor was not a poor infected soul just like Lucy once was (may she rest in peace), the poor thing was an animal of sorts, a deer? Maybe a goat? A deformed version of them, the blood seemed fresh when they arrived, no signs of predation however, even stranger, the poor animal had what looked like clumsily done stitches. Some months ago her and Van Helsing received a letter from some form of authority on Geneva whose identity was irrelevant to the case, disappearances of people and animals, trails of blood, it would seem like their area of investigation and yet once there no sign of vampirism was found.

Records of disappearances can be found from the late 1780s to late 1790s, specially of humans, particularly a poor family, with two confirmed murders, once charged to a family friend and the other for a member of said family who was never to be seen again. 

"Whatever this is, Abraham, it isn't a vampire…"

"Well not all of them are like our friend Dracula, dear, some let the need for blood drive them to commit some… eccentricities, madness, remember Sewer's patient? What was his name again?"

"Renfield? Renfield was a puppet who lost his mind, whoever did this must have a reason?"

"And how can you be so sure?"

"This place, Van Helsing, look around and ignore the ruins and damage. Can you see an individual making this place a safe liar to experiment? A home perhaps, all the decorations around it? Because I do, not to mention that somebody must have shot the window, if not our suspect then anybody who knew who was in here."

Winter was waiting them on the outside and both had to make sure their coats were well secured, hopefully the horses were doing well, "You have a fair point, dear Minerva, but we cannot do much for today, now, let us walk away from this and call it a day, we shall find the answer tomorrow." Van Helsing shrugged, straightening the wrinkles in his coat, "I will buy you the best tea I can find when we get back to the village."

Mina had something to look forward too, other than to be sleepless at night wondering if little barely one year old Quincey was doing well or missing his mom and if Johnathan hadn't burned down the house yet— No, no, no, they will— fine, she would get in her horse and come back to the village to drink tea and eat biscuits and even get a couple of shots if needed and— her horse… the horses, neither her or Van Helsing needed to be equine experts to know the poor animals were scared out of their minds, tossing and trying to get rid of their saddles, untie themselves, run as fast as they could from the place.

That was all it took for her to get her pistol out and ready, her companion did the same and all they could do was to keep an eye open and hope whatever was out there was easy to spot among the bright white snow.

The sun blinded her, she had to squint in order to get any semblance of visibility she'll need in order to aim, was that the noise of hooves? Footsteps? Her finger was ready to pull the trigger, she could hear the chattering of Van Helsing's teeth, the dutch must be smiling and trying to keep himself from laughing, her shoulders tensed, she still hears the sound, footsteps, thump, thump, thump, muffled, slow, breathing or just the wind? 

Thump, thump, thump.

"Abraham…" if she acted now, she would have a clean shot, "How common are giants around these parts?"

[seddm]

Many speak that the animation that svtfoe had during the first season was the best and the truth is that there are some personal things that I did not like as exaggerated expressions to some characters and I feel that his physiognomy was a bit coarserin some chapters and with Rought Draft Korea and Sugarcube I feel they gave them a calmer presentation without expressions as exaggerated as when they smile, but it is only my opinion.

Yeah, I agree. I don’t know if it depends from the individual quirks of the animation studios, from special pose artists being changed (some of those working on S1 were part of Mercury Filmwork itself), or from character sheets and turnarounds being changed, but the overall style became cuter with S2, the characters’ expressions and body poses “softer”, something that fits the characters and the overall art style more, in my opinion.

[parallelmotionrule-blog]

First Adventure Time drawing i had ever done....FINN... 

[mashymilkiesinc]

Sheet-timing on the Futurama episode “Farewell To Arms” in the Rough Draft Studios basement on Brand in Glendale, circa 2011-2012.  Thanks to Edmund Fong for taking the picture

[parallelmotionrule-blog]

Ohhh how i wish to work with Rebecca and Adam... If you don't know don't worry :}