Background Designs: Bride & Groom Planner

Last but not least, here are the backgrounds to the Bride & Groom Planner animation I mentioned last week. Our Chef and Florist needed backdrops to complete their world of wedding cakes and flowers, so we jumped right into creating the designs.

As you can see, the style of these backgrounds is a bit different than others we’ve done in the past. The client wanted a look that the characters would easily pop off of, while feeling simple and somewhat elegant at the same time. So we chose to go with a looser design, focusing on trying to capture more of a washed look to the colors… lots of whites, grays, and pastels. We played around with this to make sure the characters popped and the backgrounds weren’t too boring or bland.

Overall, I think these turned out great and definitely showcase a different style that we were able to achieve!





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Sifaka World: Truffle Shuffle Game!

2A! does the “truffle shuffle” for Sifaka World!

Truffle Shuffle is a fun shuffleboard game located on the Australian continent of Sifaka World. In the game, players use their mouse to aim and shoot truffles in an effort to knock other player’s truffles off the board. The player with the highest score wins the game!

2A! designed and created all of the front-end visuals for Truffle Shuffle including the characters, animations, music and sound effects. Check out Joe’s character design posts on Boomer and Eggburt to see more.

Take a trip down under and play a round or two at www.sifakaworld.com. Good luck mate!

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MMMs: "K" is for Kangaroos

You better watch out… the week’s Monday Morning Motivators has a mean left hook! The theme for today's sketches was chosen by our good pal Marc Manalli over on our Facebook page. Thanks a bunch, Marc!

Next week's theme is anything that starts with the letter "L," so anyone interested in making a suggestion can drop us a line here or on our Facebook page. Become a fan, suggest a theme, and if we dig it we’ll draw it.

For those that don’t know… MMMs is our weekly exercise where we pick a theme and spend the first hour of each week sketching. The sketches can be loose or tight, but the point is to work out the weekend stiffness and draw something new.

Now without further ado, we present... "K" is for Kangaroos!





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Fun Art Fridays: The Thundercats' Slithe

Watch out for Slithe, the axe-wielding-reptilian-leader of the evil mutants!

That’s right! After a brief hiatus I’m back to drawing some of my favorite cartoon characters, the Thundercats! And who better to start off with on the villain's side then the coolest mutant of them all, Slithe. I always found Slithe to be a great character. He tried to act so tough, but always ended up coming off as a scaredy-cat to me. Still, you gotta love him.

Just like my heroic team shot, Slithe is part of a larger team drawing I’m doing for fun. Again, I'll be posting each villain as I finish, then the whole image once it's done.

Now for a few extra goodies... Below is a screen shot of Slithe I took as I was refining his sketch.



And here is my quick layout sketch of the whole villain team. This is going to be a fun one to finish! ;)



Until next time... "Thundercats HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Illustration © Joe Costantini

Animation: Wanna Play Again?

This week I'm back with more fun with dogs! What self-respecting dog doesn't enjoy a good game of fetch? You know, of course, that once you throw that ball you're going to be busy for awhile. A dog will play fetch for hours. That's the inspiration for this SweetIM animation.



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