Searley doodle...

The cartoonist Ronald Searle passed away today. He was, most agree, a cartoon http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifgenius and he was a huge influence on my work. One of those artists who not only drew brilliantly, but drew funny.

So to honour the maestro, in my own tiny way, here's a vaguely Searle-esque doodle. He may no longer be with us, but his influence will live on through the countless others he's inspired over the years...

Crisp Monster

Todays Tuesday doodle - a monster struggles to open a packet of Irish "Tayto" crisps...

Merry Christmas

Season Greetings everybody!! (I know this is a few days late but hey, it's Christmas!

Tuesday Noodles

No Popcorn this week - been busy at work, so I'm afraid it's notebook doodles for this Tuesday...

Blues Popcorn....

More Tuesday Popcorn scribblings....

Holy Popcorn Batman!!!

So it's Tuesday and Popcorn is back after a short break with more corny nonsense - enjoy...

John K Talk

So, last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Bristol Animated Encounters Festival. I was on a panel at the wonderful DepicT! competition and presented this year's Audience award. Good times! I also got a chance to see a talk by animation legend John K.

He talked a lot about his influences - particularly early animation, 1940s classics and 1940s live action acting. He also screened several shorts including Tex Avery's "Bad Luck Blackie" which I've included below. He here's a few o the notes I took away from that lecture...

On Cartoons

Animation works best when it does what live action cannot do

Cartoon vs Animation
Animation = to bring things to life
Cartoons = FUNNY drawings/animation

On His Influences

Tex Avery created contolled choas - there was always a well structed story underneath the cartoony mayhem - eg. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)



Bob Clampett had the cartoony craziness, but more importantly had characters with strong, identifiable personalities

Live action influences
- 1940s film noir acting had intensity eg Peter Lorre & Kirk Douglas
- 1950s - 1970s American sitcom acting for strong perosnalities eg All in the Family

1940s cartoon mayhem + 1940s intense acting + 1950s sitcom personalites = Ren & Stimpy!

More flippin' notebook doodles?

Yep, sorry about that. Still got lots of things going on with work and variuos projects, nothing I can blog I'm afraid, so it'll have to be some of my patented notebook doodles ...

Redecorating the studio....continued

Stale Popcorn

So this one is a bit late...and it's halloween themed....after halloween - so doubley late - I should be ashamed of myself...

Notebook Doodles

Apologies for the lack of Popcorn this week - I've been busy with work, writing scripts and preparing a 'guest lecture' for the Irish School of Animation tomorrow, so I'm afraid it's just a couple of sketchbook doodles this week. Tune in next week for another corny comic strip though...

Surprise Friday Post (its)

Brightening up the studio walls....

American popcorn

Fresh Tuesday Popcorn

Metal Popcorn

Tuesday pop corny goodness....

Introducing "Popcorn"....

So, as of today, the Tuesday Doodle will come in the form of "Popcorn" - a single panel cartoon featuring hopefully funny, but probably corny pop culture based gags.

Here's the first of what will hopefully be many!

Cheers,

Aidan

PS If you enjoy it please feel free to pass it on!

Tues-zilla

More Godzilla type poses from some upcoming nonsense...

More Notebook Nonsense

Here's a few more doodles that stalk the notebook corners.
PS Yes, I know it's Wednesday - I'm off to right 100 lines now - "I will not update the Tuesday Doodle on Wednesday"

Tales From Notebook Corners

An early morning Tuesday doodle this week with a few very doodly doodles from the far flung corners of my work notebooks. Usually filled with to do lists, retakes notes and scribbly "instructive" drawings for the animators, every so often a cartoon head will pop up....

More-zilla

A few more Godzilla type concepty doodles...

Tews Day Du Dle

More Tuesday nonsense of the slack jawed cowboy variety....