Testo theme 70's Cartoon

Codan the Barbarian

Here are some screenshots from the new animated short we are currently working on. We're basically remaking the Testo theme video   as if it were an action cartoon from the 70's. Kinda like Thunder cats, G.I. Joe or He-man. Above is a picture of Col. Thunder-cock (left) And Codan the barbarian (right). Codan is kinda based off of He-man.

Legolias on his mighty flying dragon

The animations were done in Toon boom animate. I either rotoscoped the original video we made, or old episodes of G.I. Joe. The backgrounds were made in  adobe photoshop.

For right now I'm only animating an opening credit sequence. If it comes out good, I might actually write an episode just for the hell of it (Although I doubt it, because animating this shit is extremely tedious) The plus side to animating in this style is, to truly mimic the cartoons of the 70's you have to cut corners. Which makes it a little bit easier. 

Col. Thunder-Cock

Col thunder-cock is the lead henchman. He's some kind of space rooster I guess.

 

Thunder-cock and BI-polar bear

Bi-polar bear is either a "Bi" polar bear, or a Bipolar bear, I haven't decided yet. He has a short circuit in his brain which causes him to switch personalities  from a highly intelligent mastermind criminal, to an  unintelligible broken robot.

Dr. Kaporkian is the mad scientist who created thunder-cock and Bi-polar bear in order to stop Testosteroso from thwarting his diabolical scheme, to change all the village woman into his piggy sex slaves.



 I hope to have the video done in the next couple weeks, but I've been getting extremely frustrated making it, which causes me to take a lot of breaks from animating. I wish I could afford a Korean animation studio. I basically stay up till 5am, drink a shit ton of caffeine, and smoke a pack of cigarettes every time I work on this cartoon. I don't know how the fuck real animators do this shit on a daily basis.