My 3rd collab with Cole Sanchez airs on Monday @ 8. I gotta say I’m real pleased with how this one turned out. Cole and I were starting to hit our stride as a team, while simultaneously losing our minds!
Special recognition to Pen and Tom Herpich for plus-ing this one up big time. Pen knows how to tweak a board. Sometimes I try to see through his eyes, but I can only be me I guess.
It’s worth noting that the scene depicted above is based on a real thing my dad told me about when I was young. I hope it inspires kids to try it out themselves. Also I did a crazy 7 page pan for this episode that I’m pretty proud of. It was redesigned by Ghostshrimp for the show, but I’ll post the original here sometime after Monday.
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Here’s some early concept sketches for Death. I was sort of intimidated trying to come up with a design for such an iconic character. I wanted to pull away a bit from any the visual short hand of the cowl and the sickle. Struggled with it for a while - trying to pull a sort of Japanese cosmic alien thing; hence the zen garden. But ended up going with a Jodorowsky/Holy Mountain inspired dealie. I got really self conscious about that so later changed his face to a horse skull.
And then here’s the original 7 page pan. I wanted to really go over the top and make it like 15 pages but 7 pages felt right.
I keep missing Adventure Time. Is there a place on the Internet/around town/on Saturn that I can watch old episodes?
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Fantastic work man! Can’t wait to see this seven page spread, keep it coming!
Yo man- thanks for the special recog. It was pretty much all Pen though, I gotta admit.
Episode was really awesome. Hah, why were there so many cop cars in the underworld?
sweet work man. it’s cool to see the whole pan together.
Episode was amazing. As soon as I saw that pan begin, I knew that’s what you had mentioned in the post. Really liked Death’s design: he was immediately recognizable, but definitely not the cowl-and-sickle.
All the cars and the fact that the skeletons seem to be humanoid make me wonder if there’s a relation to the “mushroom wars.” But I suppose that’s not something you’re allowed to shed any light on… is it, Jesse?
Yeah man it definitely has connections to the mushroom war. I think I can say that. I’m not sure if there will ever be a full-on reveal about the mushroom war though.
seeing the whole pan stitched together is amazing, great stuff
fuckin death and his death metal and the land of the dead! you’re helping adventure time do great things to the minds of many many children, jesse moynihan
aye G this was my fav of yout AT episodes so far… awesome all around and so even more so to know that there was some Alejandro/Holy Mountain inspiration in there… i really liked the design for death… caught me off guard, really original. music battles are tight. props to you guys
fascinating, thaks jesse.
“Sometimes I try to see through his eyes, but I can only be me I guess.”
Do you know you speak in Robert Wyatt quotes?
I like the Giant torso BRO
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you should have pus some public buses In there BRO!
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You. Are. Rad. You are rad!
I saw this one the other day, awesome episode! Didn’t know you wrote it until now.
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I saw this episode yesterday! It was incredible!
When I saw Death, I thought his design was perfect… He reminded me of Tom Waits’ Bone machine and bluegrass music. I didn’t realize it was your design, but it makes sense now. So impressed!