my motivation for art is through the roof and i don't know why. i've had the sketch for this sitting in my drafts for months
[Start ID. A very long portrait of the fungal wastes, starting at the cavern's ceiling, looking through from underneath some mushrooms, their gills clearly visible. The wastes stretch long into the distance, the cavern walls becoming lighter and lighter the farther they go. From the walls come scattered streams of acid that disappear behind clusters of mushrooms and re-emerge at the foot of a road at the very bottom of the portrait. The road itself turns into stairs that bend behind some mushrooms to the left. Standing on the road with their back to the viewer, is the knight with its starter nail, cracks running down the blade. Beside the road on the knight's left is a sign that they seem to have already knocked with their nail, the sign's post bent and arrow pointed downwards. The color palette is a wash of blues and greens, with the acid being a near blinding white. The piece is rendered in the style of pixel art. End ID]
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This is the original marker comp done for the opening shot of the main titles. These sorts of things are done for important shots (or any time you've got time to give something a bit more love). I remember that Art Director Rae McCarson also made a more purple version and a red/orange. I like that this one looked like a bit of a punk rock eyesore, so I went with that.
I always felt that the Grim & Evil titles were obnoxious in the WRONG way, and I wanted to make sure that the Billy & Mandy titles were CORRECTLY obnoxious.
It was a fun title sequence, with the exception of the fact that we had three days and zero extra dollars to put it together. Once we had the art assets, I took a weekend with my roommate La and girlfriend (all of whom worked on the show) and shot a bunch of extra stuff. We threw water balloons full of paint at poster board (which would later be used as mattes for the "splatter" transitions. We filmed smoke swirling in a tube and that can be seen swirling around the edges of the whole sequence. We did dumb little drawings of sharp-toothed Billys and Mandys. Many of those made it in as film scratches or pops. Most of it (like the infamous names on the tombstones) is really hard to see in SD.
Nice we had all of the stuff, editor Bobby Gibis and I spent a couple of days mashing it all together with the music.
My biggest regret is that we weren't given the time or budget for any actual animation, as I'd really wanted Billy & Mandy's sketelons to drop down followed by organs and skin as in the pilot. Instead we just had to use "electricity magic". Still, considering the resources we had... I'm pretty proud of what we were able to accomplish.
This piece (and many others) are on eBay right now under username: gr1mb0t.
I'll be putting more stuff up through the next couple of months, so keep an eye out if you're interested!
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