Testosteroso 70's Cartoon Intro (Finished!!!)

I just finished the new Testosteroso 70's Cartoon Intro. It's only 55 seconds, but it actually took a while to get the look just right. I tried to mimic the Drawing style and film grain of a 70's Hanna Barbera cartoon. Plus I added some VHS Video distortion in Adobe After Effects to make it more authentic.  The final effect I used  was a low end phase and pitch bend on the audio to make the sound get fucked up whenever the tape appeared to be warped.

I roto-scoped the actual video for some of the footage ( If you haven't seen it click here to watch it.), and I also roto-scoped some episodes of Jonny Quest, Thundarr the barbarian, GI Joe, and Thunder-Cats (yeah I know that's sorta cheating, but I'm fuckin' lazy.)

Pig guards based off of Jonny Quest.

 Roto-scoping is a good way to learn animation. It helped me get prepared for the next animated testo video, which is more "cartoony" than this one. I am not used to drawing things proportionate, so making this video was a pain in the ass. The last animated thing I made was for our website http://www.testosteroso.com. It's the whole band as a 4- headed baby that does gross shit. Click here to check it out.

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.