Wednesday, April 27, 2011

HOTDOG! IT'S PINKY MALINKY!!!



Pinky Malinky is an animated short I created and directed as part of a series of six shorts produced at the Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe in 2009. As I said in the previous post, our brief was to create something short, funny and that could show potential for being developed further towards a TV series.
The main character Pinky is a 14 year old boy who awoke on his first day of High School to discover he's been transformed into a 3-foot tall hotdog sausage! It's a show about fitting in at High School, but with the added difficulty of being a quite literally a wiener!
The short was written alongside Rikke Asbjorn and shows Pinky trying to overcome his fear of the school bully, Barry Fistburger...all set to a Rock/Heavy Metal soundtrack!
Here are some screen shots from the short...















Here are the storyboards from the film. I did these in Photoshop then we put them together as an animatic. We then did layouts from the rough boards and animated it all in-house using a combination of Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator. The whole thing was then put together in After Effects.






















Here's a bunch of design and early concept stuff from the show. The human character designs were worked up from Warwick Johnson Cadwell's initial brilliant concept designs.






A big thanks to CN for allowing us to produce these shorts, and a massive, hearty and well earned slap on the back to all the wonderful people who helped make it happen. Here are the credits...

Created and Directed by Chris Garbutt
Written by Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjorn
Storyboards - Chris Garbutt
Lead Animator - Rikke Asbjorn
Animation - Rich Wake
Art Director - Chris Garbutt
Compositing - Stephane Coedel
Editing - Lee Gingold
Voice Talent - Ben Small and Rasmus Hardiker
Music - Dave Newby
SFX and Final Mix - Hackenbacher
Big Thanks to - Steve Small, Charlie Bean, Matt Black, Alan Kerswell, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Celine Desrumaux and Tim Bjorklund
Production - Angelica Jung-Woo, Joy Whilby and Jen Coatsworth
Exec Producers - Suzanne Berman and Daniel Lennard


18 comments:

Fred Blunt said...

WOW
Just looks amazing start to fin... so funny too! Well done on all the hard work.

Jorge R. Gutierrez said...

AMAZING!!!!

Mukpuddy said...

So cool bro! Thanks for posting all the pre-vis stuff too! Hopefully it finds a home!!

Bryst said...

I saw the pilot today. You're just a genius ! Good Luck !

Israel S said...

A beautifully designed and funny short, congratulations!

Chris Kennett said...

Looked amazing! Thanks for sharing so much development work. Really cool!

Ben Newman said...

CHRIS! Just finished watching the short on Youtube and I was belly laughing so loudly everyone in the studio came to see what I was looking at. Everyone was laughing especially when the onion pushes the button.......'Sausage!'. AMAZE!

Chris Garbutt said...

Thanks so much everyone!!!
It's fantastic to get such encouraging feedback!

BOB BOYLE said...

Genius in every way! Congrats!

Ilusionario.com.ar said...

Excelent! job!!

Aparna-Appie! said...

wow! this looks awesome!
all the best with it!

Polyminthe said...

yay!

Katie Danger said...

Love it!! Can't wait to see what you come out with next!

Chris Real said...

"SAUSAGE"
I freakin love this cartoon, and its great to see the pre-vis that went into making it.... why isn't this a tv series already?

R.Dress said...

Jesus this is great work man!!!

Ben Small said...

Hey Chris!!!, At last got a chance to see Pinky in It's full glory!!!!, the youtube short is great!!!, such a joy to work on, and hope all is well dude,

Ben(Small)

Anonymous said...

sau-super-sage

Chris Garbutt said...

Once again, thanks for all the great words of encouragement!
And big, huge, MASSIVE thanks to Ben Small for the great voice work on the Onions character. It was a joy to work with you.