This is me looking at the old 'BEWITCHED' set, while I was working on a new animated series at Warner Bros. Animation last summer.It's an IPHONE photo.

This is me looking at the old 'BEWITCHED' set, while I was working on a new animated series at Warner Bros. Animation last summer.
Bob is on the left, I'm on the right. The car and the dog belonged to our Art teacher Linda Rowell Bradley. You can kinda see one of her paintings, leaning on the Chicken house, way in the back. At this time, Bob and I were in the 7th grade.
Bob Doucette: Maine, New York, California
So I arrived in LA Dec '90, had my portfolio interview at WB in Jan '91 and began work on "Batman" Feb '91. The day I started production was my birthday ( coincidentally, it was all 3 "Batman" producer's
At this time, I didn't have a car nor a driver's license. So I car pooled to the studio with Bob and 2 of his co-workers; Jenny Lerew, storyboard artist on WB's "Tiny Toon Adventures" , "Animaniacs", Dreamwork's "Shrek 2" and Paul Fisher, storyboard artist on WB's "Tiny Toon Adventures" and Dreamworks' Shrek Forever After (release in 2010).
After Bob moved to a new apartment, I hooked up with another WB co-worker to car pool with; Vicky Jensen ( "The Ren & Stimpy Show" WB's "Taz-Mania" and Dreamworks' "Shrek" for which she collected an OSCAR) . Shown above is a scan of a magazine cover Vicky painted. She also painted the background of the board game 'Captain Quantum vs. The Ugly Druggies" ( If you look closely you can see her signature).
Vicky is now a live action director, her movie "Post Grad" released by Fox studio opened this weekend.
I shot the photo during Marc's wedding reception. His friend Alex hosted the party, along with the other 2 roommates in the apartment; Andy and Adrien. I didn't realize it at the time, but "Adrien" was actually Adrien Brody (The Pianist/ Cadillac Records). Opps
The apartment above is also the same location I shot my 'Novella Romantica' photos.




In early December of 2001, my production work on The Powerpuff Girls Movie at Cartoon Network was wrapping up. A friend of mine working on the movie asked me if I'd be interested in working on a new MTV animated series called CLONE HIGH USA, which he was involved. So I made my calls, set up an appointment to meet the producers and dragged my portfolio over to their studio which was located in an abandon hospital in North Hollywood where they shoot the television show SCRUBS.
At this point in my animation career I had only worked at 2 studios, Warner Bros. Animation for 8 years and Cartoon Network for 2. Both studios were, and still are, well oiled animation production factories. Working for MTV on CLONE HIGH was a little different. Our production offices were located in the abandoned hospital , more specifically the Psychiatric / Rehab Ward. This makeshift work space was provided by our executive producer Bill Lawrence who was also the creator and producer of SCRUBS .
This was Phil Lord and Chris Miller's approval stamp caricatures.
At the start of production, Carey Yost finalized the main character designs on the series, I did the inking, as shown above.
Above and below are some samples of the design work I did for the series.
Production on CLONE HIGH remained at the hospital for 3 months. In March we were moved to the MTV Santa Monica offices and shared the work space with The Osbournes and The Brandy Show. In May my father died, 3 months later production wrapped on CLONE HIGH. November 2, 2002 the show premiered on MTV, then all the controversy hit . On January 30, 2003, the 55th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, approximately 150 protesters (including members of parliament) gathered in New Delhi and vowed to fast in response to Gandhi's depiction in the animated series Clone High USA . The series was canceled.
I recently went back to Maine to visit family. I got a chance to drive down to Camden to do some research for the main location in my Graphic Novel. Here are some photos I shot.
ABC's Peyton Place (1964-1969) was the very 1st evening Soap Opera on television. This version of the book was shot entirely on Stage 9 at 20th Century Fox in Studio City, California. I'm sure they didn't write too many cold snow days into the script.
Grace Metalious -- the "Pandora in bluejeans" (cheesy slogan by some hep PR guy) and the author of 'Peyton Place' -- was said by some to be a SMUT monger. But 'Peyton Place' was the 1st novel to sell 100,000 copies, which it did in the 1st month of it's release and then went on to sell over 12 million. Sadly Grace ended up broke, in debt and dead at age 40.
A lot of folks who don't work in the industry might think that Warner Bros. Animation is located on the actual studio lot. Currently the WB animation division resides at the WB Ranch. However during the 90's, WB Television Animation was located at the Sherman Ocks Galleria; more specifically in the Imperial Bank building.
The Johnny Bravo series was created by Van Partible when Cartoon Network was know as Hanna-Barbera. However at the time I transfered over to work on Bravo, Time Warner., Turner Broadcasting /Hanna-Barbera and AOL.com had all merged together and Cartoon Network studios was born. I think I was on Bravo for 3 seasons, I'm not sure now.
Here's some stuff I did while in production on Johnny Bravo. After I left this series, the show went on and so did my designs. I think there was a Bravo TV special and another season or 2 of the series. I learned a lot about design on Johnny Bravo, mainly because our crew shared the same office space as The Powerpuff Girls production. You can find some amazing drawing in the recycle bin! Before Johnny Bravo, I had been on the Batman/crew/ series for 7 years, but after all that time, practically everything had been designed. I think the last bit of work I did on Batman was draw buttons on a previously designed stock character wearing a lab coat.

We used the original story I had written which was about a young nurse who left her small New England town to work in a Big City Hospital. The concept of the series was presented as an animated Hospital Soap Opera. Here's some of my original art work.
The final product we development was a 3min. limited animation animatic, edited together on an AVID. True Romance was a bit ahead of it's time. There were questions by the studio as to whom this series would be marketed to; was it for adults, was it satire, was it "camp". What the hell was it. It was shelved.
8 years pass, it's now 2002. I've rapped production on 'The Powerpuff Girls Movie' I'm now working at MTV on a show called 'Clone High' (Our production office was in an abandoned Hospital where they shoot SCRUBS. My office was in the PHYSICATRIC REHAB wing ). At that time Cartoon Network was taking pitches for their new evening time block " Adult Swim'. I pitched the 'Atomic Romance' concept with a new name... Bedside Manor.
Cartoon Network liked the idea and in a collaborative way suggested that we make a few alterations to the project. The 1st thing we did was to change the focus of the series to a male character. Next, we changed story local from "The Big City" to a small coastal town. This location switch lead to changing the name of the series to Beaver Bay Harbor. Here are some character designs developed for our new direction in the project.
Timing is everything in animation and unfortunately our timing was off. At this juncture, there were a lot of studios going through interdepartmental restructuring, including Cartoon Network. It was 2003 and I was back at Warner Bros. Animation studios when I was told that Beaver Bay Harbor got lost in the shuffle and was dropped.
So (to back track) it's now 2004. I'm at Warner Brothers. Atomic Romance is still living in the back of my mind. Fox studio advertised a contest 'Pitch-o-Rama' and invite folks to submit ideas for a new animated television series. So I began the 4th wave of development on my "little idea" and I rename it.. DR. MOODY MD.. The interesting thing about this FOX studio sponsored "contest" was that, right before I submitted my material, I secretly heard "through the grapevine" that allegedly Fox had already chosen their contest winner; 'American Dad' created by Seth McFarland. Well... there ya go.
The 5th wave of development using my "little idea" came when a good friend of mine at WB suggested I do a Graphic Novel. As you can see I toyed around with another name for the project 'Pulpatations' , changed the style of the characters a bit and roughed-out the first chapter of the comic book.
However as these things go, I quickly discovered that doing a comic book was a lot more work then I anticipated; It was practically a second job. Anyone in animation production will tell you ( especially TV animation) when you're working long hours to met tight deadlines, that's all the time you have . Pulpatations the graphic novel was put on hold.
Ok , at the time I started my 'Atomic Romance' photo novella, I was working at a restaurant in NYC called 'LOLA'. I had written a short story about a nurse and her deranged family, but writing wasn't my milieu. So, I asked a couple of my "waiter friends" who where writers to read over my story. One of those waiters was Stan Wlodkowski who would later go on to produce a little Academy Award winning movie called....
Anyway, she got famous after being in Warhol's 'Interview' magazine, then later doing a couple 'Toxic Avenger' movies. Phoebe was an authentic East Village celebrity, back in the 1980's, kinda kookie but really just "high" (allegedly). I strongly suspect Phoebe Leger was the inspiration for the character "Phoebe Buffay' on the sitcom "Friends".

I was given the assignment of designing Clark Kent's parents. Here's a sample design of the age progression for Mr. Kent.
What's NEW Scooby-Doo 2003: The monsters I designed for this series were basically " Man in suit" Monsters.


