Rick and Morty BGs from Season 2

  

  Rick and Morty BGs from the final episode of season 2, The Wedding Squanchers. 

  It took a few talented people to design and paint these BGs. Before shipping off to Bardel for animation, I would go through all of the sequences to make sure everything hooked up. James McDermott, Jason Boesch, and I would get a last chance to make any design changes, checking the action, boards, characters and FX for the scenes (This was an action packed sequence!). 

I thought these looked especially nice! 

Painters: Me, Hedy Yudaw, Yaoyao Ma Van As

Color Supervisor: Jason Boesch

Art Director: James McDermott

All rights Adult Swim/Cartoon Network

Link to James McDermott's post about The Wedding Squanchers:

http://jamesmcdermott2011.blogspot.com/2015/10/rick-and-morty-wedding-squanchers.html

Foster's BGs Used for Teaching Children

  Don Masse, an elementary school teacher at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy in San Diego, created an assignment using art from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends to teach foreground, middle ground, background. Zamorano is an art focused elementary school that serves a diverse population of students.

The Foster's BGs below were used as examples

All rights to Foster's designs belong to Cartoon Network

The children created the images below using cut paper for a background, then applying a middle ground layer, and a foreground on top.

The teacher's blog has more information: Zamorano Fine Arts Academy

Rick and Morty Season 2 BGs

Rick and Morty BGs from Season 2

All rights Adult Swim/Cartoon Network

BG Paint Lead Carol Wyatt

Art Director James McDermott

Color Supervisor Jason Boesch

Rocko's Modern Life Comic

Comic from a long time ago!

   Last week, one of the very talented compositors that I work with on a new show for HBO said it was cool to work with people who worked on shows that inspired her to go into animation. I see co workers wearing Rocko's Modern Life tee shirts, and talking about gags from the show. Little did I know that the show had such an impact.

   Here is a xeroxed copy of a painted cel that I found in my flat file. I was lucky enough to be the color supervisor on the series.

All rights Nickelodeon

Rick and Morty Season 2

Rick and Morty's 2nd season BGs

BG Paint Lead Carol Wyatt

Color Supervisor Jason Boesch 

Look Who's Purging Now

All rights Adult Swim/Cartoon Network

Rick and Morty Simpsons Couch Gag

Over the Garden Wall Color Key

Over the Garden Wall

I was lucky to work on this beautiful mini series as a color key artist.

Series created by Patrick McHale

Art directed by Nick Cross

All rights Cartoon Network

Stills from Over the Garden Wall - Color key by Carol Wyatt

More color work on my Flickr page:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bettycouch/

Interview with Fishink posted today

My interview with Fishink was published today!

Thank you Craig for asking fun questions and posting some of my favorite work.

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Fishink Interview

The Secret Art of Animators at the Hive Gallery September 6, Los Angeles

OPENING SEPT. 6, 8-11:30 PM

The Hive Gallery & Studios presents “THE SECRET ART OF ANIMATORS” – an exhibition showcasing personal art work made by the talents behind some of the most innovative and beloved cartoons of our time.  

Artists whose work will be featured in the exhibition…

RIC HEITZMAN – Production Designer on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
MARTIN CENDREDA – Animation Director/Animator for South Park, The Problem Solverz, The Fairly OddParents.
CAROL WYATT – Production and Color Designer for The Simpsons, Rick & Morty, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends.
MATT FORSYTHE – Character Designer on Adventure Time.
FACUNDO RABAUDI – Visual Development Artist and Model Maker on How To Train Your Dragon 1 & 2, The Croods, Shrek.
TORY BELLICI – Model Maker on Star Wars: Episode I & II. Onscreen star/presenter on Mythbusters.
STEPHEN CHIODO – Chiodo Bros/Animation Director/Puppet Fabricator on The Simpsons, Tim Burton’s Vincent, Elf.

KEVIN SUKHO LEE – Nickelodeon Director of Animation Development, Animation Producer on Yo Gabba Gabba

JON SCHNEPP – Designer/Creator/Director of Dethklok for Adult Swim, Directed episodes of The Venture Bros, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

BECKY DREISTADT – Character Designer, Comic Book Artist for Adventure Time, Yo Gabba Gabba, Nick Jr.

MUSA BROOKER – Stop Motion Animator and Director – worked on Elf, Robot Chicken, Phantom Investigators.

ERIC CALDERON – Animation Producer, Director – Afro Samurai, Linkin Park ‘Breaking the Habit’ music video, MTV, SEGA

SAM HALE – VFX Artist on Disney Jr’s The Bite-Sized Adventures of Sam Sandwich, Amazon Prime’s Tumble Leaf, CN’s High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange.

JOHN “HARV” HARVATINE – Co-Founder/Producer/Director at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios – Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken

JUSTIN KOHN – Stop Motion Animator – Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline.

LISA HANAWALT – Production Designer – Netflix’s Bojack Horseman

JESSE MOYNIHAN – Writer/Storyboard Artist on Adventure Time

MARGARET MEYER – Character & Costume Fabricator – Coraline, ParaNorman, Robot Chicken, Moral Orel.

MIKE MURNANE – Model Maker/Sculptor on Coraline, ParaNorman, Star Wars: Episode II

DEVIN FLYNN – Animation Director/Animator – Y’all So Stupid, Wondershowzen, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, music videos for Flying Lotus, The Alchemist.

KAREN CHAU – Creator/Character Designer – Ni Hao Kai Lan for Nick Jr.

RICK “DIENZO” BLANCO – VP of Creative for Cartoon Network Enterprises (toys, merchandising).

STEPHEN HOLMAN

JOSEPHINE T. HUANG

http://hivegallery.com/honey/

Over the Garden Wall - Behind the Scenes

I was super lucky to work on this gorgeous show as a color stylist.

Over the Garden Wall airs this fall on Cartoon Network.