Drawing Mcfist

Here's some tips I made during production on how to draw McFist.

Tonight on RANDY CUNNINGHAM: 9TH GRADE NINJA

Attack of the Killer Potatoes  &  Got Stank

All Upcoming Times for Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

You can also get the show on iTunes for anytime viewin'. 

Here's a poster by Jack Cusumano for the episode I directed entitled House of 1,000 Boogers.

                          




















Poster by Jack Cusumano                                                       Poster by Nico Colaleo

Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja: House Of 1,000 Boogers. That's right, Boogers.

My episode of Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja, entitled House Of 1,000 Boogers (yes, you read that right) is airing tonight on the tube - In this episode Randy and Howard crash a party and discover it is a plot to unmask the Ninja.  Anyhow, 7pm Mon Sept 24 and a replay at 4pm on Sept 25 on Disney XD.  

You can also get the show on iTunes for anytime viewin'. 

And at the moment, the Episode is streaming HERE in the videos section 

(on the left, under the Randy Logo)

This Episode was Storyboarded by Alex Almaguer, Dan O'Conner. 

Nico Colaleo 

is my animatic editor.  I work with Nico directly the most.  We edit together the drawings and time them out, add temp music and sound FX to make a rough episode.

Art Direction by Otto Tang.

Supervising Director Shaun Cashman

Written by Hugh Webber 

Created by Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas. 

Here's some production drawings of mine from the show.

Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja - Gossip Boy - Airs TONIGHT!

My episode of Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja, entitled Gossip Boy is airing tonight on the actual TELEVISION.  Gossip Boy has been streaming on the internet for a couple weeks now, but finally it will be on the tube - In this episode Mcfist captures Howard to uncover the truth of who the Ninja is.  Anyhow, 7pm Thurs Sept 20 and a replay at 4pm on Sept 21  on Disney XD.  You can also get the show on iTunes for anytime viewin'.

This Episode was Storyboarded by Peter Ferk, Larry Houston and Myself. Even though it's the 3rd episode to air, it was the first one I worked on.  So that gave me a little extra time on the front end of production to Storyboard a larger sequence myself

Nico Colaleo 

is my animatic editor.  I work with Nico directly the most.  We edit together the drawings and time them out, add temp music and sound FX to make a rough episode.

Art Direction by Otto Tang.

Written by Hugh Webber and Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas. 

Jed and Scott are the show's creators and head writers.  They have created a great world with scripts full of action and dialog that one could only wish to work on.

Here's some production drawings of mine from the show.

Poster by Jack Cusumano 

Jack Cusumano is one of our Background Artists in the design dept.

Randy Cunningham, 9th Grade Ninja - MCFISTS OF FURY 7pm Tonight!

Check out tonight's episode of Randy Cunningham, 9th Grade Ninja, MCFISTS OF FURY - Directed by fellow New Jerseyan Mike Milo - in this episode Randy believes that the town's beloved philanthropist is actually a villian! on DISNEY XD at 7pm Wed, Sept. 19 and 7:45am Thurs Sept 20. Written by Hugh Webber and Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas

There is also a replay of my episode SO U THINK U CAN STANK where Randy and Howard judge a talent show at school,  at 4pm

Poster by Jack Cusumano

My 1st Airing Episode "So U Think U Can Stank" Tonight!

My episode of Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja, entitled So U Think U Can Stank is airing tonight on the actual TELEVISION.  Gossip Boy has been streaming on the internet for a couple weeks now, but finally one of the episodes I have directed will be on the tube - I guess TVs don't have tubes in them anymore.  Anyhow, 7pm & 11pm on Disney XD.  You can also get the show on iTunes for anytime viewin'.

The Episode was Storyboarded by Peter Ferk, Larry Houston, Kim Ardnt & Bob Suarez.  With revisions by Bronwen Barry.

Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas are the show's creators and head writers.  They have created a great world with scripts full of action and dialog that one could only wish to work on.

Here's a production drawing of mine from the show.

Poster by Jack Cusumano                                                     Poster by Nico Colaleo

Jack Cusumano is one of our Background Artists in the design dept.

Nico Colaleo is my fantastic animatic editor.  I work with Nico directly the most.  We edit together the drawings and time them out, add temp music and sound FX to make a rough episode.

9th Grade Ninja Premieres TONIGHT!

The Ninja has arrived!  Have the most BRUCE time watching RANDY CUNNINGHAM 9TH GRADE NINJA!  It's THE CHEESE!

LINKS

Official Trailer
On itunes

Stream Ep.1 - Last Stall On The Left

Stream Ep. GOSSIP BOY (My Directorial Debut)

Randy's webpage on Disney XD

The Official Randy Cunningham 9th grade Blog 

The Official Randy Cunningham 9th grade Facebook page 

Randy Cunningham on Twitter

Playlist on Youtube

My 1st Randy Episode is on the web!

Hey Folks.  My first Randy Cunningham, 9th Grade Ninja episode entitled GOSSIP BOY , which I was the director on, is streaming on the DISNEY XD website.  It's in a DISNEY XD FALL PREVIEW video.  They play the whole 11 minute episode.

CHECK IT OUT BY CLICKING HERE

BEFORE

AFTER

Doug Loves Movies - Date Night

I'm a big fan of Doug Benson's Podcast DOUG LOVES MOVIES. Here's one of his bits from his stand up comedy that I thought made a good comic.

(Click image to enlarge)

http://douglovesmovies.com/

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doug-loves-movies/id281816774

http://dlm.libsyn.com/

4 U Techies - this was done in Storyboard Pro

THE NINJA ARRIVES TODAY! SO BRUCE!!!

WATCH AWESOME SNEAK PEEK RIGHT NOW!! Check out this special sneak preview of Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja! - CLICK HERE TO WATCH http://disney.go.com/disneyxd/videos/last-stall-on-the-left-0_hhr1f9uw

You can also download the show from iTunes HERE - http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/randy-cunningham-9th-grade/id548696189

For mobile devices it's best to go here http://disney.go.com/xd/randycunningham/ and click on the videos link.  The Preview episode is Last Stall On The Left

So far there are some great comments left:

Randy is a ninja.

zion, 7, IL

That was ninja awesome.

noah, 10, NJ

I think this is awesome.

Veronica, 12, WA

I love your show, I think it is the best.

Gllian, 9, AZ

Ninjas are awesome!

trezel, 9, OK

Awesome ninja.

Alexander, 10, CA

Cool, a new show!

donovan, 10, AZ

Awesome theme song.

kayla, 9, GA

This is so a ninja.

victor, 7, AR

So cool!

ronnel, 10, LA

Awesome show.

Daniel, 13, MD

That was so awesome!

George, 9, IL

Can't wait for the series!

Marcus, 10, TN

Cool I can't wait to see the next episode.

derrick, 8, TX

The Ninja is here!

Hey everyone!  The premiere episode of Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja, in which Randy finds out he is the Ninja, will air on Monday, Aug. 13 at 9/8c on Disney XD. Immediately afterwards, the episode will be available for free download on iTunes.

That all leads up to the official series premiere of Randy Cunningham 

on Monday, Sept. 17 at 7/6c on DisneyXD.

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja Trailer from HowardWeinerman on Vimeo.

Free Comic Book Day story on The Dying Breed Movie Club Meets The Movies Podcast

A few months ago my buddy Chris Mich told me a funny story about him bringing his boys to the Comic Shop for Free Comic Book Day.  I said I had to make that into a comic.  I asked him to record himself telling the story for me to have as reference.  He said he already had recorded it as part of his friend Phil's Podcast.  Phil was about to air that podcast episode, which he also puts images to.  He asked if he could use some of what I was doing.  Awesome, I thought, but he needed it ASAP.  I said - Whatever I had done by that weekend he could use.  It was pretty sparse and rough at that point, but Phil did a great job of cobbling the drawings together to make a nice little bit.

Recently, I have pretty much finished the "Character Pass" of the piece.  I made it an actual little animatic, but plan on putting it in to comic book form.  This week I'm currently trying to figure out what I want to do with the backgrounds.  I used the panel above to test things out.  I'll talk more about the project when I'm done. [All drawn in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro]

In the meantime, check out this "video assist" podcast by Philip C. Congleton ~ With a short story (about 6 minutes in) told by Chris Mich and illustrated by yours truly.

The Dying Breed Movie Club Meets the Movies: Ep. 04 - The Avengers

(Update: I noticed that the front counter's glass wasn't transparent in my original post, I just reposted the image above with the glass correct, so you can see the comics inside.  For you techies: What happened was, in Storyboard Pro,  I MERGED the BG layers in order to save some memory on the panel so the software would run a little smoother.  Only problem was when you merge layers in Storyboard Pro a layer that has the opacity turned down will revert back to 100% when merged.  What I did to fix it and keep it merged was create a new white swatch and lowered the alpha on it, selected the shapes of the glass and clicked the new swatch.  Work-arounds, gotta love 'em)

Ben & Milhouse

Ben Schwartz - the voice of Randy Cunnignham 9th Grade Ninja, came by the studio the other day. I asked him if he wanted a printout of one of the Randy drawings I had done.  He asked to see how drawing on the computer works. It was great to see how excited he was about all our drawing for the show. Then he began geeking out when he found out myself and Shaun Cashman used to work on the Simpsons. "Can you draw Milhouse?" he asked.  After the 16 years I had worked there, if I couldn't I'd be really embarrassed in front of myself.  I wanted to give him a drawing he could take with him so I did it on PAPER! (and a prehistoric pencil) I think Milhouse's nose might be too big a smidge, but hey it works.  So I drew Ben (as a Simpsons character) with his favorite Simpsons character.

(Yeah, yeah I know one of his arms is longer than the other.  It was a quick drawing whataya want.)

Mr. Ben Schwartz

Ben's Blog

http://www.rejectedjokes.com/

FREEZE FRAME SKETCHES 06-25-12

So, I had this idea I've been meaning to do  for a long time now, and finally I stopped procrastinating and did it.  Freeze framing people on the TV talking and drawing them.  There are some great faces I kept catching when I would pause something I was watching and I'd think, "Oh I gotta draw that.  That'd be a great exercise."  So, finally the other night I did it.  A lot of the time I'd like to sketch, but I don't have anything in mind to do so.  This is great inspiration, and reference.  I have my usual "goto"s when drawing mouths, and they usually work and get the right expression I'm looking for, but I'll admit, I'm not the most knowledgeable about how those muscles work.

The drawings below aren't anything groundbreaking, and I only did it a few times as you can see, but it really gave me a good lesson.  And another thing happened.  I wasn't even trying to get a likeness.  Say what you want about the drawings below, but I'm pretty sure you can tell who two of them are.  The other guy was a guest star I didn't know.

But what happened was pretty cool.  I shut off the trying to draw something specific switch and switched on my OBSERVATION SWITCH.  I was going for the expression (not just the mouth). Drawing what I saw.  I didn't judge it.  On Baldwin though, I did say at one point "that's not quite right, why doesn't it look more like him (here or there)"  but then I LOOKED at what was different.  Like looking at a model sheet when animating.  The space between shapes & lines.  "The back of the head is this far from the ear" etc... and when I refocused to see how it worked ... it worked!

Anyhow, you be the judge.  The 1st drawing of the gal obviously isn't as on the money as the 2nd.  And she was wearing glasses, but oh well.  It was a lot of fun and I'll be doing more of it.

This drawing was one I had really ruff on the 1st page of my sketchbook for a while, I put detail on it and cleaned it up a bit that night to warm up.  That's something else I find good to do.  Sketch something really quick without intending to finish it.  Then later on, go back to it to warm up or to look at it with new eyes.