AndrewLucasArt: January 2016

Rocket Monkeys title cards

I forgot to add these to the portfolio soup.

I've posted selected work from my time at Atomic Cartoons, plus earlier work I did to get hired at an animation studio. Most of it is from my stint as background designer on Rocket Monkeys. I love that show. Feel free to pull up a chair, sip on your favourite beverage and browse through the images.
Cheers!

Rocket Monkeys backgrounds

I was first hired at Atomic Cartoons in 2012 by Jamie Turner to do board pulls for Rocket Monkeys, Season 1. That task is when you take a pose from the storyboard of a character or prop and create something usable for the animation. I loved this show. I'm a huge fan of space ships, cars with big fins, one-eyed aliens, strange space guns and rivets.
Later, I was hired as a background designer seasons 2 and 3. I hadn't done anything like that before, except for my early portfolio work. Fortunately, they were desperate.
I was honoured, humbled and occasionally terrified to work under the tutelage of Jay Falconer. His design notes were always drawn on Post-Its. That's all he needed.
I sat by David Gagnon, the best character designer in the galaxy, and next to Indy Andres, prop designer extraordinaire. I was a sponge and tried to learn as much as I could from these two rock stars as well.
Thanks for hiring me, Jamie. I owe you a huge debt.

The Balloon Planet

Banarchy!

Bug Planet

Bug Chapel. Will Wally be forced into marrying a large evil sentient insect?

More RM BGs

There are a whole bunch of these.

Only Jay Falconer could think of a floating campfire.

Couldn't resist adding a Hang-In-There poster.

Hugland, the happy place where Wally tries to murder Gus.

Rocket Monkeys backgrounds

I seem to have a ridiculous amount of backgrounds for this show. I edited them down to around 100+. They are like my children, if my children were very warped and wonky and got pooped on a lot by monkeys. Anyway, it gives people an idea of what goes into a couple of seasons.