I made this fanart for Randy and Rob (as well as stickers of the characters), I gave it to them and THEY LOVED IT!!!
I also wrote a note for each of them saying how awesome the show and they are, here are the doodles I made for those notes
They gave me a signed poster and SIGNED MY ANIMANIACS BAG!!!!
Bonus recycling the traditional assets I made into a mini A5 collage.
It was one of the best days of my entire life!!! Thank you everyone who made this concert and TV show possible! Truly a dream come true 🫶
(Keep reading to see the art progress if you want! 👀)
And so it begins, they announce the UK show, I'm jaw dropped, and my family buy us tickets as a birthday gift for me yippeeeee <3
Then I had a few weeks until the show, a pencil in my hand, and a dream. I decided to make fanart to give to them after the show, but what inspiration could I possibly use-
Genius!
(As you can see I tried my best to de-code the headline Randy was covering up ON PURPOUS, I gave up and made something up myself, I even tried to make it rhyme in tune with the Variety Speak song (which took way longer than it should have 💀). At the show he did reveal the headline which gave me closure at the time... but unfortunately I forgot what it said since I was trying not to cry from joy, so I guess it will forever be a mystery 😔)
I also tried to replicate the theatre stage from VERY limited reference photos and tried to predict what the stage irl was gonna look like, I was kinda close 👀. I eventually scrapped the zoomed out stage for 2 reasons: 1) The characters I drew wouldn't be as clearly visible when printed (especially the lab mice), and 2) by the time I got to rendering I was running out of time and had under 1 week to finish it.
Anyways I drew the characters/assets traditionally since it's the most comfortable for me and it's my whole thing 😎, mixed media aah moment. I scanned the final images onto the computer (the scale was smaller than A5 btw, I like drawing small) And then I locked in rendering the final image.
And boom I printed the images onto photo paper for the first time and nothing went wrong right?...right? 👁👁
Oh boy I hope you like reading my retelling of a paniced artist.
(So I had only 8 sheets of photo paper. I did 1 test print in case something went wrong but it was perfect, so perfect that I could save paper and print out one more- oh wait no no...I misspelled so many words...oops. Ok quick edit and boom we're so back, 2 prints done and ready to package into a little bag (with stickers made from A4 sheets of sticker paper I had to cut out with a craft knife). The day of the concert arrives, I check everything, I decide to add notes into the bags just incase I freeze up and forget how to communicate with them... hang on what is this smudge? Why wont it come off, WHY IS IT GETTING WORSE?!?! Oh god EMERGENCY NEW PRINT, I try do it quickly from my phone, It starts printing just fine- ERROR THE PRINTER HALF ARSED THE PRINT...WHYYYYYYY, QUICKLY SET UP MY LAPTOP, I HAVE TO GO IN A FEW MINUTES, HURRY UP AND PRINT, IT TAKES FOREVERRRRR AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, lunch break, It finished finally phew. Carefully packaged up and off to london I went, and the rest is history. I started with 8 sheets of photo paper...now I have 3 left 💀)
Anyways that smudged photo wasn't that bad and to some unnoticeable, but for me as gifting standards it was unacceptable, so I kept it and framed it and its going on my wall with the signed print :)
If you made it this far, thanks for listening to my progress it means a lot! Here, you get a virtual dinosaur sticker 🦖 <3 (Patb ref ofc)
Song Ideas for Animaniacs 2020: Part 2 of “Please Hire Me, Hulu: The Thrilling Saga”
Recap the entire MCU (to the tune of Fur Elise)
Nora’s daily routine as a CEO- think Lonely Island meets American Psycho, but PG
The Giuseppe Arcimbaldo song, only for Yakko to be interrupted yet again at the exact same spot. This is later followed by a whole sketch featuring Yakko trying to sing his song but he keeps getting interrupted
The History of the Internet
Evolution of Rock Music
Corrections for Nations of the World (Randy Rogel already wrote this; I just think doing a corrections segment would be really funny)
Brain tries to take over the world though the power of k-pop
(Maybe a bit dark, but-) The Warners going through their phonebook, listing off the celebrities who’ve died/gone to jail since 98’
Ahead of the ’90s animated series gets a reboot on Hulu on Friday, the key players in the original remember how it came together and why it set the stage for ‘Family Guy,’ ‘30 Rock,’ and so many other shows
Randy Rogel wrote new songs for the Animaniacs reboot, which it will premiere on Hulu next year. Audience will applaud for Yakko, Wakko & Dot’s return in musical numbers.
