The Coming of Garage Geeks - Part I

Part One of "The Coming of Garage Geeks"

Visual Development Artwork of Michelle Finkle in her
Spring Outfit -- A Purple Shirt with Rolled-Up Sleeves,
A Pair of Pink Cargo Pants with matching Belt and
even Socks (not shown in this artwork)
and Black-and-White Converse Sneakers

While I am working on finish off "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" at Kit Young Center, I've Came Up with another "Bancy" pilot cartoon entitled "Garage Geeks", this time, using Inked-and-Painted Cel Animation for most of the scenes and Digital Inked-and-Painted Traditional Animation (via DigiCel FlipBook) for "multiplane effect" and "background pan" scenes and...



...I Did start with a rough set of storyboard sketches of the battle between Michelle Finkle and Mike's preteen sister Melanie Patterson but the rest didn't quite make it except I will start this "Garage Geeks" production with the story treatment first and, yes, the tools I need to make this 8-minute hand-drawn animated cartoon entitled "Garage Geeks" are actually --

1. 7,000 Sheets of 12-Field ACME-Punched Animation Paper
2. 50 Graphite Drawing Pencils (both "Palomino Blackwing" and "Dixon Ticonderoga" brands alike!)
3. 50 Felt-Tip Pens (Non-Permanent Small-Tip Black "Paper Mate Flair S" ones Only!!!)
4. 6,000 12-Field ACME-Punched Acetate Cels for the Inked-and-Painted Cel Animated Scenes (You Can Get These at Cartoon Colour Company Inc. for Art's Sake!)
5. Two (or More?) Crow-Quill Fountain Dip Pens (for Cel Inking)
6. One (or Two?) Packages of Spare Crow-Quill Pen Points
7. Four (or more?) Colors of Speedball Acrylic Ink (Mine are Black, Green, Blue and Burnt Sienna)
8. Spout-Capped Plastic Squeeze Bottles (and Plastic Jars/Glass Jars) of Cartoon Colour's Top Quality "Cel-Vinyl" Acrylics (for Cel Painting and Background Painting Too!)
9. A Home-Made Animation Camera Stand (mine will be the smaller table top version of the home-made Oxberry animation camera stand)
10. Software for Digital Ink & Paint (your choice of "DigiCel FlipBook" or "Adobe Flash" or other "2D-Animation"-related software such as "Toon Boom" and "TVPaint Animation")
11. Software for Animation Cel Photography using Stop-Motion (My Choice of Stop-Motion Software is actually Aardman Animations' "Animate IT!" for Animator's Sake!!)
12. A Computer (Your choice of "Mac OS X" or "Windows PC")
13. A Digital HD Webcam (Suitable for Both "Mac OS X" and "Windows PC")
14. and, yes, A LOT OF INSPIRATION!!!

To Be Continued!
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P.S., IF Any Comments about Part One of "The Coming of Garage Geeks", Please Let Me Hear From You!