The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish

Here are pieces of my work for the cartoon design course.The task was to create visuals for a fictional upcoming 10 to 20 minute cartoon based on a fairy or folktale. The story I choose was The tale of the fisherman and the fish. This was written by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

According to the tale a poor old couple live by the sea and the husband who is a fisherman goes out and catches a golden fish by accident. The fish promises to fulfill the old mans wishes if he let's go. But when the fishers wife hears that they can wish anything she wants everything...

The cover page clearly shows how many designs the fish went through.

The backgrounds were pretty hard to come up with. Mainly because
I didn't have a clue how to draw one (I'm better in drawing characters)

Some early sketches for the fisherman and his wife (the clowns staring at you kids)

Some finished designs for the main characters. The woman has 3 kinds of clothes for the three kind of homes.
One for the mobile home, one for the luxury mobile home and one for the skyscraper...

This second home is pretty much a mash of a boat and a train...and maybe a tank.

And the skyscraper which might be a giant robot.

making Simon and Garfunkel

I scanned a few drawings that I made for the preproduction of the film.
These pictures mainly view the female character because she was the one that I designed.This storyboard is only a second version. Mark did a first but we had to make a new which was easier to follow. Anyway the finished shots of the film didn't look nothing like this because we found better ones.

details of the storyboard

Some of my friends say that the female character looks like my girlfriend, but the truth is that the looks are based on this photo.

I found it on the sexypeople blog.

When I found the most sympathetic character I started to change it so it became more cartoony

I did the first solid study of the head in plasticine (the gray one), then I did a small model from clay. The final heads were sculpted on polystyrene base. The nose and most of the heads were made of drying clay I only used soft clay for the parts we animated later on, like mouth or hair. I also made a head of the woman where I used soft clay everywhere so the big foot could easily kick it flat.

Mark made his puppets head the same way (Luca's photo)

I'll post one more bout some art I did for the beginning of the film.

Simon & Garfunkel™

Márk and I did a puppet animation film on MOME. Klick on the picture to view the video!



The tune was performed by Szekszujel Fhifhies aand the song is written by Lidia and David. Vocals were sang by me and there were some other voice which was provided by my pal Oliver Olivér .

Random shit

a badass angel and some marvel dudes

FA*ZZINE

My cover for upcoming photocopied comix fanzine that I'll be doing with my friends. More details coming soon...

School Stuff

There was a task in school which was to make up a character from four items you get randomly.
I got a kazoo, a classic Battletech sci-fi book, an empty pack of Lays chips, and a CKM which is a Hungarian men's magazine

I did a couple of sketches 'till I found what I want this guy to look like. I wanted him to be some geek who is also cool a little bit because he's confident enough not to give a damn about his losernes.


I also did a comic about him meeing his old man. I'll translate t and post it up as soon as I have time.

Bringing the generations together

I took part in a comics exhibition here in Hungary, It was quite good, The gallery made a big print of one of my favorite pages of The Boy Named Sue.

It was the best exhibit I ever took place in. Nice saxophone music, wine and snacks and there even was a catalog of us artists. It pretty much blew my mind.

Last years school sketches

These pieces were figure sketches I've done


And These were my pieces of a wall-long comic that the whole class did together. It was a pathetic experiment on making a comic with about 35 people involved. In the end it was just a lot of illustration after each other.

I saw War Zone

Not such a good movie...but whatever!

My take on Alice

More school stuff

Sketches for school task

The goldfish

I have a 'film illustration' course at MOME now(stands for: Moholy-Nagy University Of Art And Design Budapest) which means I have to create the visual theme of a possible upcoming animated film (which will not be made of course). I choose the tale of the goldfish. This yarn was re written a lot of times but the most notable was the Russian writer's, Puskin's version. This is just one piece of my sketches. I'll put updates up as soon as possible!

Wacom

I did a pretty bad drawing about my girlfriend with my Wacom tablet.

Pernye the magician

Well another great project I did to the Pinkhell magazine was a fantasy series, about a ham-fisted magician called profesor Pernye. The whole thing was originally brought to life by my two good friends Jenő Szabó (writer) and Péter Tikos (artist, both members of the Hungarian comics academy). The two of them created this character but as time passed Péter had less and less time to draw the comic, so they asked me to take over as artist, leaving only the coloring to Peter.

It took me a while to find a style that I'd be happy to work with.


I even did this Mignolaesque version which was too far from the original potato nosed goofy look.




Then everything started to take shape...(prof and wife)

Let's take a look at how this episode was made:

The script:

This is a Hungarian script, I've only put it up so you see it works the same everywhere, still to me it was odd to work from a page filled with characters, since I've always drew based on my own storyboards leaving the dialogues as the last problem to solve.

Storyboard:

This is when I turn the scripts order into a chaos.

Penciling:

Making order of the chaos again

Tusrajz:

I used less blacks this time as I was inking because I didn1t want to spoil the colorists fun.

Colouring and Lettering:

peter did a nice job at coloring my shit, as well as placing word balloons.

The whole 4 page story was printed in the fifth issue of Pinkhell.