{"id":2912,"date":"2015-09-02T19:28:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2015-09-02T19:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:28:27","slug":"arsenic-lullaby-short-on-comedy-centrals-trip-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"ARSENIC LULLABY SHORT ON COMEDY CENTRAL’S TRIP TANK"},"content":{"rendered":"

90% of what I do, you never see.<\/p>\n

Countless pages of trial and error, countless sketches leading up to those pages, countless ideas leading up to those sketches.<\/p>\n

How much of that 90% was necessary as a “means to an end”…Lord only knows.\u00a0 The art Director at Mad Magazine told me once after I presented a quandary of 4 pages that were only different to the most keen observer “we all have our own brand of neurosis, it’s what drives us.”\u00a0 which would imply that it is all\u00a0 part of what our brain needs to pump out good work.\u00a0 He also said once I’ll just”Just throw them all in the air and see which one lands face up”.<\/p>\n

I tell you this to explain why the latest issue has been taking so long.\u00a0 About the time I started it, I got the call from TRIPTANK<\/a>‘s producers, asking for more ideas for animated shorts.\u00a0 So…what would you do?\u00a0 I sent them everything that wasn’t nailed down, and continued to send them every idea I came up with up until they were done taking in ideas.\u00a0 Then I waited.<\/p>\n

Took them about 9 months to finally give me the thumbs up on one.\u00a0 Is that a long time? I dunno.\u00a0 I know they have a lot of irons in the fire, and I know when it comes to actual television I an a very small fish in a very big ocean.\u00a0 Until they finally decided though, I couldn’t very well proceed, because anything I moved forward on that they decide to use…I would no longer own, and therefore not be able to publish.<\/p>\n

As far as working in the creative industry, having to wait until an animation studio tells you if they are going to put your work out on Comedy Central before you can publish it, amounts to “first world problems”.<\/p>\n

After they picked one, I did my best to weasel my way into making the character designs.\u00a0 It is a sci-fi story which needed a coupe of astronauts and a hot Martian.\u00a0 I scowered over pics of old pulp sci-fi magazines, old sci fi comic books, actual NASA pics looking for cool elements to give everything the right feel .\u00a0 Sent off about 10 rough versions of everything ( some pics below)<\/p>\n

\"MMsuits2\"<\/a> \"MMsuits3\"<\/a> \"TTbroads\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They took a pass on what I made.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I dunno.\u00a0 Because they did.\u00a0 Seeing as how more often than not my attitude is misinterpreted through emails, and I really wasn’t sure who exactly I was supposed to be asking…I didn’t really\u00a0 press too hard for an answer.\u00a0 Heartbreaking really, but that’s show biz.<\/p>\n

(I explain all that, so I don’t have to hear from several thousand people to the tune of ” How come it didn’t look like your stuff?” or ” I thought it would look like A.L. characters”.\u00a0 Don’t ruin this for me with grumbling alright? )<\/p>\n

So, that’s an example of how much work someone in the creative industry does that never sees the light of day.<\/p>\n

as for the other 10%.<\/p>\n

ARSENIC LULLABY WILL HAVE ANOTHER ANIMATED SHORT ON COMEDY CENTRAL’S TRIP TAKE THIS SEASON!<\/p>\n

The season starts Sept.23.<\/p>\n

Which episode are we on?…I don’t know.\u00a0 They didn’t tell me and I didn’t ask. There are about 160 different shorts in the 20 episode season and I suspect they have other things to do besides give me a break down of the episodes. They may let me know when the season starts.\u00a0 I do happen to know who one of the voice actors is…but I am not sure if I’m supposed to say.\u00a0 He’s a Second City<\/em> guy that I like a lot, so that’s pretty kewl.<\/p>\n

anywhoo, here is a link to our short from last season<\/p>\n