Here's Duggy! (In 3D!)

So, I can finally talk about the freelance project I was working on a while back. It's Duggy! Duggy is a real life plane that travels around the US teaching kids about the world of flight. Click here for the Duggy.com site. A great guy named Mitch Carley created personalities for a bunch of planes and did some great drawings and designs of them. Mitch contacted me about a year or so ago about doing a CG version of Duggy, but production didn't start until a few months ago.

My company BOOKARTOONS! created the 40 second CG intro that's part of a DVD that went on sale this weekend. I worked with Rusty Tracy, who's a TD/Animator that I work with at Nickelodeon, and one of the best workers I've ever had the pleasure of working with. ("Work" was in that sentence four times!).

I directed and animated the project. The characters had 2D mouths that I animated in Flash, and Rusty rigged up the bodies so they had great cartoony acting abilities. Rusty also did the modeling, shaders, and lighting. You can see some of the poses on the screen shots below. I'll put up a clip soon!