If I had a twin I'd be the evil one

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maritzac:

“In late 1996 on the referral of Goran Delic–the lead designer–I was hired on from in-house to ink backgrounds over simple liner layout art for the Sam & Max cartoon series run on Fox in 1997.

It was produced by Canadian studio Nelvana.

They wanted a very strong stylistic look to the art, so the work was all done using a Pentel Brush Pen and White Out,

Goran’s tools of choice [the director Steve Whitehouse decided to deviate radically from the style of creator Steve Purcell’s work for the backgrounds for this show]. These B&W pages were then coloured digitally in the paint dept and matched back with the animation the layouts we worked from had been done for. It was a demanding job largely to the clash between the quality Steve desired and the schedule the studio wanted to keep. We had to do 5 or 6 of these a day on average as I recall.” - Salgood Sam

(sorry I had to rehost the image so it would show up. Please go to http://www.salgoodsam.com/animation/backgorund-art-inking-sam-max-the-freelance-police/  to see it in the original gallery)

This is interesting. Detailed background inking in animated shows? I had no idea it could be done.

Reblogged for awesome, further info from Salgood. He put it in a comment on disqus and these don’t always show up, so I repost:

”Thanks for the link to my site!

Indeed detailed backgrounds can be done, anything really can be. it’s not often done though simply due to time, cost, and the often lower level of skill at the large animation sweatshops used to do the bulk of the work for TV shows back then. Lot of this stuff was sent to China, Taiwan, or the Baltics in the 90s where labour was cheep to do the actual animating. When i mentioned the clash between the director and producers, this is what a lot of it was about. The director wanted this nice detailed work, the produces wanted us to dash it off fast and not take as much care.” - Salgood