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My online moniker has been "Jo The Zette" ever since middle school. She's a reference to Freakazette, a female counterpart to Freakazoid that was never used in the show. At the time, I thought it would be presumptuous to call myself Freakazette, as in THE Freakazette, so I took the "zette" and added a Jo to make her more my own. These days my avatar is that Cup-Head-Jo-girl-thing you see all over my site, because Jo The Zette is a little too fangirly to market me as a professional (and yes, in some twisted way I feel the CupHead Jo will make people take me more seriously). Anyhow, I haven't drawn ol' Zette for a while, and I thought I'd give her a makeover.

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Adorable Baby Animal Show

Animal Planet has some really addicting shows. One of my favorites it "Growing Up..". Its a show about people who rescue abandoned or mistreated exotic baby animals and raise them. I just saw an episode called "Growing Up Sitka Deer". Even though I've seen "Snow White" and "Bambi", I never knew how affectionate and sweet deer could be. Hell, if you have the land for it, they seem to make wonderful pets. This lady on the show has rescued two fawns, and watching her interact with them really made me dissatisfied with my cat. They would jump and lick her face whenever they saw her, follow her around, nuzzle and cuddle, and she could even walk them on a leash! Anyhow, this is a fanciful picture based on that.

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There is Chuck Jones cartoon about a bored little Martian (not Marvin- a different one-hit-wonder Martian). I can't recall the title, but it was a really adorable cartoon. There was a lady Martian in it whose design was fantastic, but as my memory is very patchy, I decided to forgo trying to remember exactly what she looked like and just doodle something inspired by her.

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A few new doodles, and a couple ancient ones I must have missed in my past doodle sheets.

Silesia Walk Cycle 2.0

I unexpectedly got a break from working today, so I decided to waste time a bit. A few years ago I realized I needed to get over my hated/fear of Flash if I wished to continue to eat, so I decided to acquaint myself with the program by bringing in an old school walk cycle pencil test and just drawing over it. The process turned out to be more grueling than I anticipated, so once I felt Flash-friendly enough I abandoned the project. Until today! Here she is, in all her cyclical glory.

Ohm Is Where The Heart Is

(Yes, I did draw this just so I could make that lame pun.)

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I got some new markers- inking practice went a little better today.

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Tried inking again today- its damn frustrating!

PBS Kids Expansion with Dot and Dash

This was the job I was also working on during last spring alongside the previous Cocoa Puffs spot. This was a massive network rebranding- I'm not sure, but I think that the final tally of spots delivered was in the range of 40 or so. I touched maybe half of those, and of those there were only a few where I was pleased with my animation. It was a different pipeline to work with, as I'm more comfortable with handling my animation from keys to to clean-ups. But I had to learn how to animate with other tweeners in mind some time, and this was a good learning experience. Take a look!

Cocoa Puffs: Big News Combos

I'm just now getting around to posting the jobs I worked on last spring. Here we have a Cocoa Puffs spot. I wasn't on this job for very long and didn't get to do much animation, and what little animation I did do was either cut or edited (The news anchor bird got completely chopped out at the last moment). But I got some good pencils out of it- here ya go!

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Nothing good today- here's two sketches from yesterday.

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Here's one for the crapper- a nice drawing of Libra that I muddied by overworking it. I'm posting it to remind myself to do better next time.