‘Don’t Rock the Goat’ is the story of Gideon in six serialized segments.

Part 1 began with this quick concept sketch of characters and settings:

 

 

This is a first pass animatic that I actually converted to a presentation piece. It is very “Clutch Cargo” animation style, but I had a lot of fun doing it and only spent about 4 hours from the sketches above to exporting it. I am still thinking about content that I could present in this style just because of the quick turn-around:

 

Updated character designs:

 

 And an updated animatic for part 2:

 

Designing the color palette:

 

A color character model sheet:

 

And an almost final presentation piece with temporarily added intro and ending (sound levels not final):

‘I Do, I Do, I Moo’ is the retelling of Jacob meeting Rachel and dealing with her father.

This is the first character line-up that I completed. I loved it at first.

 

A portion of the animatic using the first character designs.

 

After some thought, I re-designed the characters . . .

 

 

And re-designed them one last time.

 

 

Some background and prop designs.

 

 

 

Gag design.

 

 

Updated animatic based on new designs.

 

Figuring out the color took a little bit more time than I had originally thought that it would.

 

 

Apparently, Jacob already has his displaced hip years before his angelic encounter – you can tell by the limp (in this case caused by a poorly executed walk-cycle).

 

A snippet of pre-release animation – no sound track – just a few gags and Jacob’s first impression of the lovely Rachel.