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STREAMLINING DEPT:  I've been playing around with simplified head shapes lately. Detail above and full frame ( unflipped ) below. Digital sketch in TVPaint @ 2048 x 1080 pixels

DOODLING AROUND DEPT: Just playing around with some different brushes and settings in Photoshop.

Enthusiastically  Naive Dept:   Our water safety mascots, Albert & Einstein, were fairly popular characters with our educational staff and the community they distributed their items to; coloring books, stickers, etc. So they asked us if we could make a short cartoon featuring them; something cute and fun to explain water safety rules to small children.  Ha! We knew it wouldn't be easy. We'd done small animation projects before and we knew how much work they could be. But still, we had no idea, not really, and quickly said "Yes, you bet!" Our enthusiasm made us dumb to reality. We thought that making a 5 minute cartoon would be a fun, moderately challenging side project to our regular assignments. That we would chip away at it in between our real work. Boy were we wrong!   My normal workload was never modified enough to allow any real progress on the project. I did find time to storyboard the whole thing (some sequences several times), and I also modeled most o