The Akon calls T-Pain video is really getting around and is popular so we'll milk it a bit on the blog. Tons of sites are featuring it but it was especially bizarre seeing it on the New Yorker.com A lot of people are using it to demonstrate how auto-tune has killed hip-hop. Hurray social commentary angle!



Then here comes a video of T-Pain watching it...and laughing...which is a relief because drew him fat:



And here are some process bits:


The pencil characature of Snoop Dogg that pinned down how he was going to be drawn.

...and here is a link to the storyboard. We do our storyboards direcly in Flash so that they're almost an animatic. It's also good because you can make some character/background a symbol and quickly re-use it again and again.

http://www.punyentertainment.com/clients/olde_english/boards.html

We sent this to Olde English for notes, and then drew and animated over the top of it directly in Flash like so:



The process for "how do I make a cartoon?" people (welcome!) was:

Olde English wrote a script and recorded the songs.
Jesse Novak (whom may or may not have a brother...good luck geneologists!) did the auto-tune and mixed the song. Then he passed the file off to us.
Mike made the storyboard animatic to the audio track.
Mitch then did the character and prop art directly in Flash (Dave did some assists and Snoop typography)
Vincent did the backgrounds in Adobe Illustrator.
Amanda then animated in Flash
Ashley composited and made the effects (like the lime and smoke) in After Effects and then rendered the .mov for Super-Deluxe.