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Foster's Comic Con for Imaginary Friends

For those of you attending this years San Diego Comic Con here's a list of the Foster's events goin' on.

Friday July 21- Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust signing 12:45-1:15 @ Cartoon Network booth.

Foster's panel with Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust, Khaki Jones, Eric Pringle, Tom Kenny, and Keith Ferguson 1:30-2:30 in room 5AB.

Grey DeLisle, Tom Kenny, Phil LaMarr signing 6:00 - 6:30 @ Cartoon Network booth.

Saturday July 22- Keith Ferguson, Candi Milo (w /Sean Marquette tentative) signing 3: 15 - 3:45 @ Cartoon Network booth.

In addition to the events there will be some cool exclusive Foster's give aways. Come by the booth for the signings and pick up some actual "Coco Cards" and get them signed by the cast! Collect all 10!











Also at random times throughout the convention the Cartoon Network booth will be giving out these exclusive Cheese shirts. So keep stoppin' by and maybe you'll be one of the lucky few to nab one!



See you there!

Go Shannon Go!

Foster's Character Design Supervisor Shannon Tindle has just won an INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT EMMY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CHARACTER DESIGN!!! WOOO HOOO!! way to go Shannon! This guy is a drawlin' monster, take a look at these EMMY AWARD WINNIN' designs he did for "GO GOO GO!"

Mac

You can't have Bloo without Mac, so here he is. As you can see Mac went through a big change. He started out more of a "Peanuts" "Dennis the Menace" type kid but there was something about this design that didn't feel right. He felt dated to me or something and I could never really "connect" to this kid. So I quickly changed the design of the head there he was.
Only afterwards did my family point out that he looks just like me at that age. I can totally see it now, but at the time it was totally subconcious.

Blooregard Q. Kazoo

I know it's hard to believe that there was actual visual development on a character as simple as Bloo, but it's true. He first started out as a transparent nebulous shape then became solid and got shorter and shorter. It's almost as if the character was literally coming into focus the more I thought about him.

Sunset Junction

To make up for the long absence I'm trying to post more often. This is a bg from an episode that we just finished and delivered yesterday called "Bus the Two of Us." I really like the mood this shot evokes.

WOW!!

The Foster's episode "Go Goo Go" was nominated for a primetime Emmy award today! Also nominated was Cartoon Network's Camp Lazlo. Plus my good friend Rob Renzetti was nominated for his show "My Life as a Teenage Robot" in the one hour or more category. Way to go everyone! Congrats!

We're Back

AGGGGGHHHH!! I know it's been a while since we've updated, and as Wilt would say "I'm Sorry, is that OK?" The only excuse I have is that we've been pretty busy actually making the show. So to make up for not posting any drawings during the month of June (or most of May for that matter) I'm starting July by posting a drawing with lots of drawings on it. I did this piece for a merchandising proposal.

Francis "Frankie" Foster

I apologize for flooding the blog with development stuff, I promise we'll add more production stuff soon. But because some of you have asked for it, here is some of the early sketches of Frankie.

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Making Cheese

Amber (aka LAZYBONE) at Deviantart made this plush version of Cheese for her kids. He is perfect in his wonkiness!

Now it's Ed's turn

Here are some early development sketches of Eduardo.

Imagining a friend

When creating a character I go through lots of really fast and loose ideas trying to find the right design elements that will visually define the personality of the character. Here is a page of some of those sketches I did when designing Wilt.

Dave and Tim Done it

Here is the production painting of Bloo's Fantasy Battle with Uncle Pockets from the episode "Bloo Done It." It was drawn by our supervising BG designer Dave Dunnet and painted by one of our color stylists Tim Barnes. Amazing job guys!

Free Cheese

Here is an inspirational sketch from an episode that we just started to work on. As you can see, a special character is going to be making an appearance in this episode....you guessed it, it's Frankie.

Hello and Welcome!

Hello and welcome to the official Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends production blog. Here's where you'll get the inside scoop on the day to day goings on directly from the fine folks who make the Cartoon Network series. We hope to share with you things that you won't see anywhere else, production designs, board pages, sketches and doodles, etc. Like this for instance, this is a quick Bloo I drew when I first started messing around with my tablet PC.

So anyway thanks for stopping by, and keep checkin' back for more!

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