FRANKENWEENIE

Birds tweet and chirp outside the small window, hidden in trees and beckoning Spring, as London's unrepenting grey skies pour their cold melancholy onto swift stepping passers-by, as I continuously draw the Dead Dog!

You guessed it. I'm still trapped in Mr. Burton's attic working on another particularly tasty scene from Frankenweenie.

I've been dying to put something on this blog for ages, but as I'd probably be hunted down by Disney hired Ninja Assassins sporting Mickey Mouse ears if I do, it's best to wait until the film's actually finished.

In the meantime I've quickly roughed out a tribute to Tim's original live action short from 1984 and stuck as closely as possible to a realistic drawing of the Terrier featured in

the film.

Heeereeee's Sparky!

RELAUNCH!

Or is it reboot?!

Hard to know in these days of re-imaginings and new beginnings and sequels and prequels and interquals.

Anyway here it is... A fresh look to my blog!

I'm taking this moment to dedicate a thought to my grandfather Douglas Pearce who passed away in December.

I've been wanting to sketch something for a while but stuff simply got on top of me.

I drew these from memory rather than a photo as I wanted to keep the lines fast and have some raw energy running through to the finished piece.

I added some race-horsing imagery as a backdrop as the old man was an avid fan of the sport and often had a little flutter.

(flut·ter- n. British Slang: A small bet; a gamble).

Love to you all!

SOUNDTASTIC!

A Disney Remix of Snow White.... Think it sounds awful?

Think again!

This is the latest work of Nick Bertke, better known on the web & music scene as Pogo.

Come to people's attention a couple of years ago for his remix of Alice in Wonderland using sounds, chords and vocals from the film itself, he has now re-cut Charlie &The Chocolate Factory, Toy Story, Terminator amongst a few...

Check out his take on UP!

Nice!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron?feature=mhum#p/u/2/qs1bG6BIYlo

Dark Shadows in the attic!

Go to doodling today while waiting for my next scene to do on Frankenweenie and was inspired to do my take on the vampire Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows simply by being in the attic of Tim's studio.

At the moment there are four story artists, including myself, working away on the wonderful dead dog brought back to life story, in this attic with sloping ceilings and creaky floors right above Mr. Burton's own room, who's also busy working on his take of the marvelous
television series Dark Shadows.

Anyway... here's my doodle!

Bored...

... I'm waiting for new story notes on Frankenweenie to do.
Pretty cool though as we're working in Tim Burton's attic...

What better place to work on a Burton film than his attic!