Check out the great character color by the talented Leticia Lacy! The image above is a test to see how the characters show up over the painted backgrounds. We had a concern that Al’s blue-grey tone would disappear under water - but it works great don’t ya think?! This is so much fun!!!!
Well, it is in Call Me Bessie’s universe. Take a look at one of Andy Clark’s colored backgrounds. He has done a fantastic job developing a creative, energetic, bright world for Bessie et al to do their thang.
You can take off your rose colored glasses cuz there’s more where this came from…stay tuned. In the meantime, let’s give it up for Andy!!!!!
Go Andy, go Andy, go Andy…
Last week, we received the mouth charts designed by the talented Larry Leichliter (thanks Larry). We are still making a few tweaks, but he looks good, huh?!
In fact, Al has asked me to let all the single ladies out there know that he is available and looking. Knowledge of Karate and a penchant for barbed wire a plus!
All requests can be entered here (his Match.com profile is still being written — handle is IsolationistLooking4Love).
Nooooo, it’s not time to announce the winner of the mystery prop game (although that’s coming)….
Nope, we’re not gonna show you photos of young Fred losing his shorts to the neighbor’s dog (yet)…
Nada, definitely not time to see home movies of Diane and Dana dressed as cows for Halloween (although for the right price, we could be persuaded)…
IT’S TIME TO WITNESS BESSIE, AL, AND SENOR SWAMPY in action in a piece of their very first animatic (again for those of you who are new to animation, that’s when we put the scanned storyboard and the voice track together so we could make sure the timing is on target, among other things).
Hope you like it!
(For those of you who would like to recommend changes, hum a few bars of your favorite Duran Duran song and the urge will pass.)
Click for Bessie Quicktime.
Mystery Prop #732 :
Identify the mystery prop in the soon-to-be-world-famous cartoon Call Me Bessie! Contest winners will receive a special and secret message from the show’s creators Diane and Dana.
Directions: Pick one below or submit your own clever response.
A) A mechanical diving board to help Al get his portly elephant butt into the water.
B) A wind-up flapjack flipper that Bessie bought on e-bay with the last of her babysitting money.
C) The torn-out tongue of Herbert the Wooden Giant from the far-away land of Barktreetia.
D) The draw-bridge that Al installed over his moat in hopes of keeping Bessie out of his house.
E) Who cares, I have better things to do with my time’and when is this gonna-be-a-hit show airing on Nick anyway!!!!!!!!
F) All the above.
Disclaimer: Employees of Nickelodeon, Frederator, and inhabitants of Barktreetia are not eligible to participate.
There goes Al and Bessie skipping merrily down the street (insert imagination here). Wellll, maybe that’s not exactly how it happens…Bessie is sooo excited by the notion of going scuba diving that she drags poor Al over hill and dale to get there before he changes his mind.
He’s such a good sport-or is he???
Senor Swampy doesn’t like anyone to go near his precious scuba school when he isn’t there, but we thought you’d like to take a peak.
And if you are diggin’ Diane and Kenny’s style, you’re gonna love it in color.
Stay tuned…
I know we keep harping on how good Alex is, but really, have you ever seen such gloriously angry eels? What are eels doing in a short about a cow and an elephant you ask? Well we reckon yur just gonna have to wait and see aren’t cha?!!
