Mind the Kitty

Duck here! I’m so excited! We’ve finally decided who’s going to be doing our voices! We’ve listened to so many auditions our ears have just about fallen off, but…

..wait a minute. Do we even HAVE ears?

Anyways. Here’s the cast list!! *squee!*
YOURS TRULY (Duck) will be played by DEE BRADLEY BAKER!
TABBY — Dee Bradley Baker
PUNKY — Jeff Bennett
LEMURMAN — Rodger Bumpass
TABBY’S MOM — Lynne McClean

Also, cause of a special request on DeviantArt, some new shirts are going to be up soon on Cafe Press! Check it!

…Duck!

Since the swag the guys ordered from Cafe Press finally arrived today, I sent them outside to give “Mind the Kitty” some publicity, while I finish up some more special poses and a list of BG and prop breakdowns. “Breakdowns” just means that Eric, my awesome production coordinator and I are figuring out exactly how many layouts, props, and character views need to be designed. It’s a big job, but essential, especially since everyone at Renegade Studios needs to know how much character layout will need to be done in the computer, and how much can be drawn out beforehand.

I hope the boys aren’t getting into too much trouble out there…

-Anne

TABBY TURN! TABBY TURN GOOD!
MIND THE KITTY SWAG! CAFE PRESS! GOOD!
ANNE TRANSLATE!!

(Anne: Ow! Stop biting me, I’m typing, I’m typing!!

Tabby says, like we’ve already mentioned below, to check out all the new Mind the Kitty merch (buttons, stickers, and shirts) at Cafe Press!, because they are awesome, and will vastly improve your life if you wear them.

*note: Mind the Kitty merchandise does not actually improve your life in any way. Although it will make you more attractive.

Hello! Lemurman here agan…here is my turn uhround! weeeeeeee!

weeeeeeeeeeeeee!

…im dizzy now…murg….

We have kut the aneematic yesterday at renegayd! it was sad. but also it was not sad beecuz now it is almost the rite lenth. Anne still has to cut more. We will share some when it is all dun!

bye!
-Lemurman

Yo. Punky again. It’s the second week of character design at Mind the Kitty, and I think Duck is letting it get to his head.

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Just playing with some ideas for coloring the gang, to use for the website I’m putting together. I’m not sure if I want outlines or not yet…I don’t want it to look too much like any shows that are already out there. As I continue with design, I’ll play around some with illustrator, and hopefully have a new pass at this in a week or two. The key (no pun intended) thing about Flash animation is that the characters have to be “built.” Flash is a bit like Maya, in that the characters move like puppets, but in Flash their parts are on different levels, and it helps if those parts are really clearly defined. Punky’s head, for example, would be easy to move around since it is separate from his shell. Tabby might be more difficult; since her head is part of her body, her face and arms will have to play [Read more…]

Hi everyone! Duck here. This week we’re finishing up the board so Anne can send it to the network. I’m glad I don’t have to be the one to send it over there. Executives make me nervous.

Anne’s needed us to pose a lot more as she’s finishing the storyboard drawings, so she had Tabby play Simon Says to get us to keep still. I think Tabby went a little overboard, though…my wing is still sore…

Also this week, we are putting together Sides, which are mini-scripts the actors read when they audition for voice-overs! Me and Punky have been typing most of them up…Lemurman wants to help but he can’t spell and most of the time he just ends up chewing on the mouse.

Tabby is biting me and yelling SIMON SAYS. I don’t think she realizes we’re done playing. OUCH!

TABBY POST TABBY POST TABBY POST TABBY POST!
(Anne: I think what Tabby is trying to say is that she is excited to be in charge of the “Mind The Kitty” blog this afternoon!)

TSHIRT! WEBSITE! TABBY POST TABBY POST TABBY POST!
(That’s right! Today we’re starting to think about how we want to promote MTK! Making some t-shirts, and maybe a website? Thanks to Dahveed of Teapot fame for some great ideas! It’s important to get the word out as soon as possible, so tons of people get to check out the short next year when it airs!)

BUSYBUSYBUSY!!!!
(On top of storyboards, this makes for a very busy Anne!)

DUCK! DUCK DUCK DUCK!
(Duck has been very helpful in looking after Tabby…particularly when everyone was posing for this nice family photo…)

CHAINSAW!
(Er…maybe later.)

Anne here, just taking a break from refining my rapidly expanding production board to share some development art–painted by an amazingly talented artist named Lou Romano!

Lou has worked pretty much everywhere, right now he’s up at Pixar working on their next project. He’s a friend of my director at Renegade, Nate Pacheco, and Nate was kind enough to ask Lou to do this great painting! I love the colors, and I’m definitely leaning towards using his ideas for the backgrounds/layouts– monochromatic, a little bit painterly–but simple! Any opinions?

Also, I had to post this helpful diagram of Street Cred. Yo.

Hi! i’m lemurman. I’m a lemur. I have a neat tail. i like shiney things and bananas and lint and phone cords and the colur bloo and

Anne has told me to rite about the pre-cast meeting we have to go to today. I hope it will not be long. Or boring. I dont like boring things. we will meet with the casteeng derektor and try and figure out what kind of actors are going to do our voices in the cartoon. I think we should do our own voices. I want to tell the casteeng direktor that. Anne sez no.

also we have to rite about ourselves and have pitcures of ourselvs when we go to the meeting. this is a picture of tabby’s mom. she is kinda scary, huh? but she is kinda pretty…when she’s not freakin out about stuff.

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