The DIY TV Series: Character Design

Many of you know that PostNup is written, illustrated, animated, performed, published, and marketed by two people working out of a small office in Berkeley, CA. With the exception of audio editing/processing, we do everything.

Our goal is to create a wildly successful animated show on a tiny budget.  We’re making do-it-yourself television, and we’re learning as we go.

This is the first of many posts where we share our process with you.  Our hope is that other people who are thinking of making something like Post-Nup will benefit from hearing about our experience.   We also hope that our fans find our daily trial-and-error interesting!

In today’s post, Katharine will share the evolution of our character design.

Realistic Beginnings

My illustration background is rooted in realistic drawings, not cartoons.  This is why Gaby and Omar started out looking very realistic.  I wanted to capture their personalities and expression first; I figured we’d make them cartoony later.

Both Sandeep and I had a fairly clear vision of Omar from the very beginning of this process, which is why he actually started fairly close to his final design.  Gaby was a different story entirely; we were totally lost with her!

Getting Cartoony

The next step was to make the characters more cartoony.  I had some fun with this and tried making them look like birds (don’t ask me why) or like characters out of the film Coraline (particularly the woman with the cat on the top left). ...Read More 

the annies

So, The Story of Walls didn’t win the Annie for Best Short (damn you, Seth Green!), but the Annies were awesome.  Here were some of the highlights for me:
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Episode 2: Uppers

In episode 2, Omar decides that if anti-depressants make sad people normal, they will make a normal person really fucking happy.

Omar believes that anti-depressants can solve a number of issues in his life (“I may not be depressed, but many things do depress me.”)

Katharine and Sandeep would like to thank everyone who watched and commented on Episode 1.  We finished recording episode 3 this week and are excited that Post-Nup is starting to get some favorable recognition!

You can watch episode 1 here.