Friday, June 13, 2008

1.5 seconds of fame

I guess these days you know you've made it when you get mentioned on a DVD commentary. Here's a short clip where Genndy (along with Bryan Andrews) gives a little shout-out to yours truly in the commentary track for the "Jack & the Spartans" episode from the SAMURAI JACK Season 2 set:

Here's my designs for the robot monster:



My idea was to have the robo-beast's facial graphics resemble
a Greek vase, with orange graphics on black.


Of course, red and black are always seen as symbolically
representing evil, so they went with that.

21 comments:

intergalactic said...

Very cool man...love that episode.

So...I'm curious, you doing anything BAD-ASS for Comic-Con?

Sketch book?

Prints?

Commissions?

Drinking yourself to death and falling into the harbor??

...i

Anonymous said...

I remember that from the commentary! And I study that episode all the time...... cause I'm a nerd....

So are Erik and Bryan going to give more legendary status on the Mighty B! dvd (there better be one damn it! - tell Erik that insist on that - cause you know how former interns have vast influence).

Still can't believe you can keep your work so neat. Nice clean design - I get way too sketchy.....

Anonymous said...

I agree! Great concept on this one.
tank you
Tienen buenos conceptos.
me gusto mucho el blog
Gracias

Anonymous said...

Bad-ass-ness!

I've recently been going back and re-watching all the episodes of Samurai Jack. I can't wait to see this episode and discover it's brilliance all over again.

Larry Levine said...

Chris, Love your designs!!!

Dagan Moriarty said...

ha, sick Chris!
:)

Some well-deserved props, and great work as always!

Daisy Church said...

rock star! Very cool- great seeing the designs against the final clip and your thought process behind it as well. :D

Dan Bob said...

I'm impressed. nice.

Mukpuddy said...

Ha ha that's awesome dude!!

Anonymous said...

This may not be the last time you're mentioned in commentary, you rule!

James Sutton said...

Weird creature.

I remember when I was able to spam up monsters in a second.

Hey mom, here's a glugsmasher.

What's that?

What do you think it is mom?

Sam Rowan said...

this is totally rad!
you have the best job ever!

Unknown said...

I have all those Samurai Jack DVDs. Your stuff is just too cool!

Peter Breese said...

congrats! think the baddie rocks! big fan of the samurai jack and am always impressed with your clean style.

Mark Ackland said...

Awesome! Must have been a fun show to work on.

Dee said...

That's cool Chris! Nice of them for the shout out too! Your designs look great!! 1.5 secs. now, next THE WORLD!!!!! muuuhhahahaaaa......

wolfboy said...

You are such a solid, clean designer man. That model is so wicked. I miss working with you, my friend.

Sarah Satrun said...

awsome! congrats!

Unknown said...

I have a renewed respect for you now! Nice work!

Catherine Satrun said...

COOL!! Great designs! ^.^

Chris Battle said...

Thanks, guys. Glad the old stuff holds up!

Intergalactic- I'm gonna be at a wedding in Carlsbad during Comic-Con, so not sure if I'll make it down to the big show. Hoping to put together a sketchbook someday; Now if only someone would commission me to drink myself into a stupor and fall into the harbor...

Scotland- Hey, man; Look back thru the old blog posts and you'll find a few where I show off my scribbly roughs before they get the smooth polish...

Serapio- What I want is a CHOWDER DVD! With all the puppet endings!!

Dee- ... and I want EL TIGRE DVDs, too!!

Andy- Gotta get some K-BBQ this month. I'll give ya a call.

Nicodemus! Where ya @ these days?