Big City Blocks or Lines?

Hey there. This here's another layout/setup for the Birds promo, the Big City Harbour. It's not totally finished yet, but I wanted to get all of you talented bloggers to weigh in on the city before I go further. My gut tells me to go with the block skyline (bottom) because of the higher contrast and the fact that the characters will show up better against it when animated, BUUUUT I really like the look of the transparent skyline too, and it is more 'on style' with the show. What do you folks think? Let me have it!

UPDATE: Thanks for the feedback! Here's the final BG:

Location, Location, Location

Still super busy designing stuff for the promo, but thought I'd take a moment to share. This is inside Finch's attic home in Big City. Maggie has just paid a surprise visit and grumpy Finch doesn't look too happy about it!

Turn Around Bright Eyes

More 'Big City Birds' MDP designs done on the weekend when I shoulda been relaxing. They're by no means technical turnarounds, so don't examine them too closely!

Big City Boat

Okay so we're finally starting production on a 3-minute animated promo for 'Big City Birds'. The storyboard and animatic are done and I've begun designing some new locations and props, such as this one here. One of the transitions between scenes is going to be a 'boat wipe', so I had to design a boat. Since it's only going to be on screen for like 2 secs max, I really should have kept it more simple, but no... as usual I got a little carried away and spent way too much time on it. Anyway. no harm done. I'm sure it'll be reused again in a few BGs (and hey- maybe even some other shows!). Here she is!

titlecardoftheweek

Brrrr!

Title Card o' the Week!

Witty Title

Just shaking things up a little and posting a Captain Flamingo title card for a change!

Weird Science

Hope you all aren't getting too sick of these things, but it's all I'm really doing these days! Maybe I should rename this blog the 'Captain Flamingo Title Card Archive'?

Batter Up!

Here's another pair of Captain Flamingo title cards. I thought I came up with this wicked awesome idea of using bugs for the negative space in the 'Bug Out' letters, and I was pretty happy with the result. Then I saw Pixar's 'A Bug's Life' logo and realized I totally ripped them off! Hopefully Disney won't sue me!

Character Design Interview & TC

HELLO FELLOW BLOGGERS! Randall Sly interviewed me a while back for his most excellent Character Design Blog. After getting over my initial shock and bewilderment caused by why he chose me to interview, I was more than happy to participate. Check it all out here. Big thanks to Randall for creating such a wicked awesome blog, and for choosing me to be included in the amazing pool of talent he's interviewed there so far.
Also, because nobody likes words without pictures, here's another title card for Captain Flamingo. This one's all nice and evil looking! I must've been angry when I coloured it up. More to come.