Webster Colcord

2010-03-23

2010-03-09

2010-03-02

One of the great perks of working at giant companies like Dreamworks, EA, and Disney is that they tend to offer free enrichment classes for artists. The downside is that I always have too much work on my plate to attend them. Today, though, I was able to attend a lunchtime life drawing class and produced these sketches, the more finished of which were from longer poses.

2010-02-18

Drunken Animals 01

An animated music video that I've been working on for quite awhile is just about to be officially released and it features lots of drunken animals. Here's a drawing of a bear that is used briefly in a shot. I'm particularly fond of this bear.

2009-11-08

Boris Karloff sculpt

This is an old sculpt that I dug out and photographed today, it's Boris Karloff from "The Black Cat." It was done in Sculpey and very tiny - about 3/4" high.

Extreme Man & Insane Boy in clay

At one point during the lengthy production of "Extreme Man & Insane Boy" I considered animating them in clay. Here's the sculpts that I came up with. They're pretty old now and they've gotten kind of dusty. Also the irises were never painted.

2009-10-04

one of my old cartoons on Vimeo

Extreme Man & Insane Boy, Episode I from Webster Colcord on Vimeo.

In pursuit of his ambition to become a super hero, Extreme Man sits in his hilltop bunker waiting for word of criminal activity over his stolen police radio. Fueled by comic books and paranoia, the hostile and incompetent ex-actor turned crimefighter has managed to assemble the accessories of a super hero, including a military vehicle which he calls the "Extreme Machine" and his sidekick, Insane Boy, who escaped from a mental institution and spends most of his time in a straight jacket.

The city below is a burned-out and nearly vacant husk of what was once a great metropolis. In this decrepit environment a small group of mutated super-villians have set up a social club in which they scheme their next attack on what remains of civil society. With grim determination our two heroes square off against the loose coalition of villains. Meanwhile the bad guys, led by the Screaming Skull, try to keep an optimistic party-like atmosphere going whenever possible.