Before I left Nickelodeon in november. I was developing another Butch Hartman show. Unfortunatley the network passed on it. So here are a few of my designs and explorations. And lastly I will be at the L.A wizard con this weekend.
Really excellent designs Stephen. Looks like it would have been a show worth watching. Sorry for the cancelation. There will be other projects, I'm sure. You've got mad skills my friend.
mike, These are all hand drawn, scanned and then colored in photoshop. No cintiq on this one. Thanks all for the kind words. This project was fun while it lasted.
I noticed a striking similarity in these works to that of comic book artist Kyle Baker's work. Are the similarities inentional or inevitable given Baker's animation-y look?
I think it's probably the color style thing going on, I would say it's inevitable. Although I do love kyles work, we have the same influences. Mainly Jack Davis and Mort Drucker.
Thanks for the heads up on Davis and Drucker. I looked up some of their work and now see why I always thought Baker's work looked so strangely familiar. (I grew up reading MAD in the grocery store while waiting on my mom.) Really enjoyed the Goonies drawings, by the way.
Stephen Silver was born in London, England on August 30th 1972. Aspiring to be a
professional artist his whole life and knowing drawing would be his vocation, Silver got
his professional start in 1992 drawing caricatures in amusement parks. In 1993 he went
on to establish his own illustration company called Silvertoons. By 1997 Silver was
hired by Warner Bros. Television Animation as a character designer, and has been
working in the animation industry ever since.
He has worked as Character Designer and Supervisor for Disney Television Animation,
Sony Feature Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, designing characters such as
"Kim Possible", "Danny Phantom" and Kevin Smith's "Clerks" the animated series, to
name a few. Silver is the author and artist of seven self-published books on the art of
sketching, caricature and life drawing. In addition to working freelance full time, he also
teaches an online character design course at schoolism.com. Silver names three treasures to success
in life that give him what it takes to keep on drawing: passion, desire and determination.
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Super awesome work, as usual.
Cheers,
Milenko
Hi Stephen, it was nice meeting you @ the Animation Academy, great words (and artwork) of inspiration, it was an honor indeed!
oh. man.
how can one human be this good at design?
i think my mind just melted.
your fan,
Adam
These are just great Steve. Would you colour over hand-drawn artwork for these, or are they entirely rendered on the Cintiq?
nice fun designs
Very cool designs! I really like these.
These design ROCK!
Good looking stuff, Stephen!
I have a question, if the animated show, "clerks," through some magical power, started up again, would you jump on board?
larman2,
to answer your question, yes I would
Wow, I love your designs, I'm just a nobody and a complete novice just starting out but I really like your work.
These are so damn cool! Nice meeting you at the LA con!
Stephen, your insane!!! These are such great designs. Really cool shapes. Awesome work my friend...thanks for sharing them!!! I love your work!!!
Awesome character designs!
Really excellent designs Stephen. Looks like it would have been a show worth watching. Sorry for the cancelation. There will be other projects, I'm sure. You've got mad skills my friend.
Awesome work! Really wonderful shapes on those great characters!
Don't know why, but I really like the fat cowboy guy :)
All these pics are fab ! Really fun concepts !
mike,
These are all hand drawn, scanned and then colored in photoshop. No cintiq on this one. Thanks all for the kind words. This project was fun while it lasted.
So in love with your work. Put up a link in my blog. Can't wait to see more character designs! :)
Dude, these are awesome!!!
These superheros are awesome! I dig the guy on the left with the hood!
Hey, you know that narrative costumed class at Nickelodeon... They let me lead it! Thanks for the advice!
I have a bunch of drawings from it on my blog.
Nice stuff man. Great shapes and character. Nice,
MAC
NICE!
first time i vist your blog. Buenisimo!
I love the shape of the heads.
I´mnna link ya!
Nice work man,
cool desings!
Really nice work Steve! You're too talented for your own good ;)
By the way, what was the name of this show?
The name of the show was called triple threat. It was going to be flash animated.
I noticed a striking similarity in these works to that of comic book artist Kyle Baker's work. Are the similarities inentional or inevitable given Baker's animation-y look?
R James,
I think it's probably the color style thing going on, I would say it's inevitable. Although I do love kyles work, we have the same influences. Mainly Jack Davis and Mort Drucker.
Thanks for the heads up on Davis and Drucker. I looked up some of their work and now see why I always thought Baker's work looked so strangely familiar. (I grew up reading MAD in the grocery store while waiting on my mom.) Really enjoyed the Goonies drawings, by the way.
Wow this is awesome, I just came across you a couple of days ago actually. You've been a huge inspiration to me so far.
Actually if you ever get the free time, please look through my gallery. http://k0r2n3h.deviantart.com/gallery/
It would be totally awesome if you could. Btw, what school for the arts did you attend? I'm going to Watkins this fall for Graphic Design.
wow, that seemed like a pretty cool show... it'd be cool to see an african-american character cast in an animated show
pretty sweet designs, it's a shame that Nick didn't want another Hartman show,Danny was awesome (way to go on the design!)
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