Precinct ep 00b: Eras of Ackersley
As with Farnham, in the new Precinct cartoon we’ll be seeing Ackersley at different points from 1986 thru today. I think ‘93 Ackersley is my favourite.
More animatic done now:
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Precinct ep. 00b: Eras of Farnham
For the upcoming Precinct animation: obviously “You’re the Voice” Farnham is familiar, but here’s sketches for some later era Farnhams. Click for a larger version.
Many of them will appear in this cartoon: basically he’ll be changing costume for every shot. Pain in the arse, as it means more character builds. But we’ll be using the [...]
Production begins on The Precinct, episode 00b: “Playing To Win”
YES! So, as I mentioned previously, I’m starting up a new Precinct short animation, the goals of which are:
to give viewers a bit more of the story we’re dealing with in the series
to reveal a bit more about Det. Ackersley’s personality
to show lots more ACTION and fast cutting
to shamelessly wallow in my John Farnham love [...]
Idle drawing, and what’s up with The Precinct
John Kricfalusi is the gent who created Ren & Stimpy. His blog is full of excellent lessons, advice and rant on various subjects. I saw today he’s having his visitors try drawing his lovable Republican stooge, George Liquor (American), so I thought I’d take a crack at it. He’s not kidding when he says drawing [...]
Meet Many More Characters.
I can’t be bothered doing individual posts for each character at the moment, so check out the new character lineup (link opens in a new window) and let’s learn about a few of your soon-to-be-favourite TV cops:
BEN MARTINEZ
Martinez is a greenhorn who has no idea what The Precinct is, why it exists, and what [...]
Ackersley vs dead eyes
This is the first in a series of posts describing the characters in The Precinct and their relation to the story of what I’m optimistically calling “The Precinct: Season One”.
Ackersley is the guy you’ve been seeing in the animation tests and most of the sketches I’ve been posting. This is not [...]
Pretty Pictures
Following a nice meetup with some comics people, I went back to using brush and ink a bit today, this being the result:
I drew the characters with a Pilot V Signpen (as recommended by M. Vandenhoven), scanned and printed the line art, then inked the shading over the top of the printout.
New version of the [...]
What is The Precinct? — part two: character design development
Here are sketches of what some particular types of people might look like in the world of The Precinct:
A radio talkback host
A gorgeous supermodel
The loud drunk guy on the tram
Real life comics superstars JAn Napiorkowski and Jason Badower (whose names will have to change to BEn Napiorkowski and Ben Badower if they’re going to make [...]
What is The Precinct? — part one: character design development
The Precinct came from a fairly stupid idea I had about making a live-action cop series that was supposed to be from Europe and “dubbed” into English. It would be unclear as to whether the cops were actually cops or just weird guys who liked dressing like them and running down alleyways. And they would [...]
BG design
This is what The Precinct looks like from the outside. It is located in a popular ethnic shopping strip, next door to Mr Lowinsack’s famous bagel emporium (soon to include a new espresso machine!).
Test includes dusk, dawn and late night colour schemes. As you can see, I’m implementing an actual “night” colour [...]
