"Two of A Kind" Part C-3

This board is all about acting, one of my strengths, I think. I had the pre-recorded voice-track and had to do the acting to conform to it, instead of the other way around, i.e., we’d storyboard to the script and the voice actors would either record to the script or look at the boards, then record the script. Actually, I don’t know if any voice directors ever actually worked that way.

I am posting, in serialized fashion, my storyboard for episode 10 of The Batman - Season 4, “Two of a Kind”. This is part three of the third posting.

“Two of a Kind” was written by Paul Dini, directed by Antony Chun and produced  by Michael Goguen. Kim Smith was the line producer. The other board artists on the episode were Tim Eldred and Young  Yune. Jeff Matsuda was the main character designer.

Batman, "Two of a Kind" Part B

In my “morning-pages” journal (2005/ January 23-March 22) I wrote that I had my first storyboard hand-out at Warner Brothers on Batman, Season 4, on Monday, February 7, 2005. I didn’t specify (in my journal) which episode I was working on. It was possibly #4 (“Fistful of Felt”), although I don’t seem to have a copy of that storyboard. 

I wrote “I went into W.B. to p.u. the Batman board. Also at the meeting was Mike Gougen, Tim Eldred, and (?) the P.A. Young Yoon is doing the board climax, but wasn’t at the meeting. I’ll have to ask Andrew (sic: “Antony” is his actual name) Chun, the director, about Young- is he back in the states? Does Joe (Pearson) know? (I met Young Yoon while directing for  Joe Pearson on “Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys).

“Being back there, working on Batman after so long, was a very odd experience. Somewhat emotional; I left the meeting sort of sad, depressed.  That feeling increased as I spent the afternoon sifting through the (hand-out) materials to cull through for what I needed, and to figure out what I still required. I basically don’t like the new version. I don’t like Jeff Matsuda’s designs. His re-imagining of the Joker is radical- it hadn’t occurred to me that they would depart so radically from those I was used to.”

Apparently I didn’t meet Antony Chun at the hand-out, since my notes don’t mention it. Antony had a big impact on my life going forward, as he was my director on most of the Batman episodes in the following year. He also brought me along with him when he starting directing on “King of the Hill” in 2006, and helped me get onto “Bob’s Burgers” when that series began in 2010.

"Two of A Kind" Part C-2

 During this period, (2005), I was living through an extended (6 year) period as a near-chronic freelancer or working staff on short-lived (less than a year) projects. The staff jobs were, “Megas XLR”, “Stripperella”, “Legends of the Dragon” and “Spawn” (a never-produced direct-release-to-dvd project for Film Roman). Uncle Bob died, and I went to his funeral in a rural suburb of Kansas City, Kansas. I had surgery on both ankles that kept me incapacitated for 2 or 3 months per ankle. I started “Flaming Artist Press” and started self-publishing my homo-erotic “Adults Only” artwork, culminating in the graphic novel, “Harry & Dickless Tom”. This period ended when I my Batman director, Antony Chun, got hired on the season 11 re-vamp of “King of the Hill”, in 2006. The long-running series had been canceled after season 10, the layout team scattering to the 4 winds. Then Fox ’TV decided to renew it for season 11, and they had to re-tool the series as a story board driven show (as opposed to lay-out driven as it had been previously.

I am posting, in serialized fashion, my storyboard for episode 10 of The Batman - Season 4, “Two of a Kind”. This is part two of the third posting.

“Two of a Kind” was written by Paul Dini, directed by Antony Chun and produced  by Michael Goguen. Kim Smith was the line producer. The other board artists on the episode were Tim Eldred and Young  Yune. Jeff Matsuda was the main character designer.

"Two of A Kind" Part C-1

I don’t know why I didn’t do full cleans on this board. I don’t know why W.B. let me get away with tight roughs. I’m re-reading my old journals from 2005, but I only talk in general terms about working as a free-lancer on the series. To my disappointment, I tend not to go into specifics about the plot and characters in any given episode.

I am posting, in serialized fashion, my storyboard for episode 10 of The Batman - Season 4, “Two of a Kind”. This is part one of the third posting.

“Two of a Kind” was written by Paul Dini, directed by Antony Chun and produced  by Michael Goguen. Kim Smith was the line producer. The other board artists on the episode were Tim Eldred and Young  Yune. Jeff Matsuda was the main character designer.

Batman, "Two of a Kind", Part A

I’ll be posting, in serialized fashion, my storyboard for episode 10 of The Batman - Season 4, “Two of a Kind”. 

To quote Wikipedia, “Season 4: 2006-07 Season 4 aired from September 2006 through to May 2007, and featured a new intro sequence. The Complete Fourth season was released on DVD in November 2007.

“When Daytime TV Host Harleen Quinzell is canceled from her television program for ambushing Bruce Wayne, Joker takes an interest and decides to turn her into his partner in crime, Harley Quinn.”

The episode was written by Paul Dini (one of only two episodes by him that I had the opportunity to storyboard), and directed by Antony Chun. This was the third or fourth episode I had worked on with Antony.

I worked as a free-lancer on all Batman, Season 4 and  Batman, Season 5. This was not my choice but, at the time, the American animation market was somewhat depressed, as I recall, and the studios had the luxury of exploiting us artists in a free-lance capacity, which they apparently felt was more advantageous to them.

This segment shows Team Batman (Batman, Robin and Batgirl) watching the aftermath of them vanquishing the Joker’s henchmen, Punch and Judy.

February First, May Second, 1999

Went dumpster diving again, this time from a sketchbook/ journal date “1999 - 2.1 - 5.2”. These were the sketches that interest me on February 25th 2017. The were mostly, but not all, done in Michael Benner’s “Ageless Wisdom” ongoing classes at the Red Cross headquarters in Glendale, California, of all places. Michael had an “in” with the Red Cross because of some volunteer work he had done with them.