Halloween!

Prepare yourself for the mother of all picture posts.

To start things off, these are pics of the Nickelodeon Halloween party. Every year, friends and family of Nick employees come to the studio and trick-or-treat at the various shows (always held the Friday before Halloween, because the place it TRASHED at the end of the night).
As you can see, each show decorates however they see fit.

We'll start with my new crew on Fairly Oddparents:










And on to Danny Phantom:










The Mighty B:







Ni Hao Kai Lan (chinese for "scary") :




Uhh... the... human resources... show? I bet you didn't realize it, but Jolly Ranchers provide excellent traction on rounded surfaces.



And as usual, Spongebob outdid themselves. This year, Plankton hits you with shrinking gas so you can help him steal the secret Krabby Patty formula.
















A couple from Avatar:




This one was a real crowd pleaser. The Penguins crew made a kiddie pool and filled it with packing peanuts. I'm glad I took pictures before all the kids showed up and laid waste to it.











The Post Production department took me back to my childhood:





Friends in costume. Man, I love working here.
The party was kind of a dress rehearsal for the actual costume competition. (coming up later)




All in all, it was a great night. I can't wait till next year.







This year's costume competition was great! There were some really fantastic entries this time around.













And finally, the Carnaval. Always an awesome event. This year featured the explosive return of the teen pop sensation Hansen (not quite so teen anymore) and a performance by the tone-deaf little people known as Mini-Kiss. Hell, I'd have come down just for that.




















As usual, that's just a tiny fraction of all the great costumes that were out there. Next year, I'll take more pictures AND dress as a character who doesn't wear motocross boots. My feet are still angry at me.

Speaking of neglect, here's a couple pics of the thumbnails I'm working on.






Phew... October's over. Now that the festivities are done, it's back to work on the Starlets.
Man, what a wild month!

Procrastinate more!!

Okay, I know I SHOULD be working on Starlets stuff. But when that starts to get old, these things happen:


And here's some stuff from Edward Gorey night at the Drawing Club.


I haven't ink washed in a long time, so it was nice to get to do it again.

To the rescue!

Here's an eyeful of Audrey:


And a work in progress for the Rankinstein.com index page:


Starlets thumbnails continue, more to come later!

Drawing Club goes punk

At about 4 in the afternoon, I was mentally preparing for another evening of Starlets thumbnails when our BG supervisor came into my office and told me that the Drawing Club theme this week was punk biker chick.
I HAD to set the Starlets aside.
After two hastily consumed burritos and a beer, I sat down for three hours straight and drew this great model while listening to The Clash, Madness, the Ramones and (of course) the Sex Pistols.








Before leaving, I heard of ANOTHER place that had life drawing Wednesday nights. I'll post more info when I get it.

Kinetic grievance

...or: "Zorn Whacks a Robot"

Another post-it post today. There's something I just LOVE about drawing really small.
I'm thumbnailing out the B-Movie Starlets book, so I'll update with cool snippets at they arrive.

Cheers!

New sketch, old mistake

ALWAYS remember, kids. Leave enough room for the whole image.
Here's Cindy from her Lacrosse days:



Without being able to see the basket, though, she could be toting a rake, a flag, or a really long-handled plunger.
Maybe if I didn't hold the book sideways??

Hallo Oktober!

Yes, it's that time of year again! The air's a little crisper, the sky's a little clearer, and there's a little bit of magic in everything!

I sketched this one today. Still going to ink more and tone, but I figured I'd put it up as a work in progress.
I'm not sure what this little guy did to make Cindy so mad, but I'm sure he won't be doing it again!


Here's a freelance deal I've been working on for Evolution, a rock band. I was given carte blanche to give them a certain trademark that's easily remembered. I thought prehistoric skulls and bones would be cool.






(too bad about the copyrights everywhere, but you can't be too careful these days. Just ask that Diorio kid)

The Starlets script is almost done! Expect some pages to be up before the end of the month!

Instead of posting my haphazard B-Movie Starlets story notes, I'll have to settle for these besketched post-its. Enjoy!






www.rankinstein.com is up and running again, so if anybody missed the B-Movie Starlets teaser at the Con, it's posted on the site.
Thanks!