Art Shippo's Saturday Morning Cartoons [lots of pictures]

[Shippo]

You probably came to this thread to see some snazzy, hilarious, crazy cartoon animations right? Well, I?m sorry to disappoint you but I can?t really do that. YET. However, I DO make cartoon characters, and I would like to share them with [i]you[/i] and hopefully you get the same fuzzy feeling I get inside when I see them.

And for those of you who don?t know me my names Shippo and I use to be a regular at this forum way back when. Anyways, I quit coming here because I stopped watching anime and got caught up with a lot of other stuff. Well to make a long story short, I?m back! And I am glad to say I have lots of new stuff to showcase and hopefully I?ll get some feedback and tips on where to improve. I have some different stuff that most of you probably don?t see around here too often. I stopped making banners a while back, and picked up drawing characters. Well, I guess it isn?t really drawing when I?m not using a pencil, scanner, or tablet. I made these cartoons from ovals, triangles, and the pen tool in Adobe Photoshop 7. I hope you enjoy them, and please comment because I spent a lot of time on them! Thanks.



So let us start this off with my first and favorite cartoon I?ve ever made up to date. I experimented with a lot of different things in Photoshop and came up with a basic character. I loved it so much I decided to take it to the next level and animate it. I imported, frame by frame, into Adobe Imageready, and lo and behold, look what we have here:

[img]http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1448/tghebibr1.gif[/img]
(if itsnt moving check out: [url="http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1448/tghebibr1.gif"]http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1448/tghebibr1.gif[/url] )


Onto the next, this was a vector-type thing that I made and then shaded using an airbrush. Looks kind of weird, and its incomplete. Any suggestions before I move on would be helpful. I?m planning on making the man playing the earth, and having the text say, ?Music makes the world go round? Just brings a tear to my eye thinking about it. Here he is:

[img]http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8762/pianoman11copych6.jpg[/img]

The last thing I?m gonna post is a cartoon character I made two days back for someone. It was a submission for a contest at another forum to make a logo for a DJing company, so I came up with this:

[img]http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/4199/jaypegxn4.jpg[/img]

full size: [url="http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=previewyjq3.jpg"]http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=previewyjq3.jpg[/url]

(my name on the other forum is Chamza, so if you know me then?say hi or something!)



So there we are, thanks for listening and congrats if you made it this far.