klactomation

Expressionismus

2011-07-12T16:52:00.002+01:00

He is what he is and that's all he is.

2011-02-24T14:46:00.002Z

Before Colouring 2

2011-02-23T12:29:00.001Z

Before Colouring it

2011-02-16T14:35:00.001Z

Two more illustrations

2011-01-29T12:02:00.002Z

Girl

2011-01-28T10:42:00.002Z

Ilustrations

2011-01-24T10:46:00.002Z

Illustrations for short stories written by my pal "Chips" Hardy.

They appear here: http://thefullstory-withpictures.blogspot.com/

Page 078

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Page 32

2011-01-07T12:15:00.002Z

Figure in the landscape

2010-11-18T04:11:00.002Z

Cavalcade (The Return)

2010-11-05T15:46:00.003Z

Woolfardo

2010-11-05T15:38:00.002Z

Clickety Clack

2010-10-22T12:19:00.002+01:00

Cops

2010-10-13T10:20:00.002+01:00

Cavalcade

2010-10-03T18:14:00.003+01:00

Selfportrait

2010-09-28T10:39:00.003+01:00

Good Night

2010-09-27T10:43:00.003+01:00

Espero que este sea unos de esos trabajos mios que no le gustan a señor Ochoa.

Cold Artist

2010-09-25T12:35:00.001+01:00

Artist and Child

2010-09-13T11:22:00.002+01:00

Monsieur Pett

2010-09-06T14:27:00.002+01:00

If you want to see Klacto Animation's animated Epic "Monsieur Pett" in it's integral version, please go here: http://www.spinetv.net/video/monsieur-pett

Para ver "Monsieur Pett" en su version integral, andá aqui: http://www.spinetv.net/video/monsieur-pett

Old man and a Child

2010-09-03T13:47:00.002+01:00

An Old Man and an Angel

2010-08-31T20:42:00.002+01:00

When I painted this for a children's book I tried to copy someone surreptitiously. For the life of me I can't remember who. A famous illustrator from England? A popular Californian blogger?...Damn!. My memory isn't what it used to be.

Well. As I. L. Diamond put it: Nobody is perfect

Tonk

2010-08-30T18:56:00.002+01:00

Rider-Jinete

2010-08-22T17:22:00.001+01:00

Casino 2

2010-08-09T14:16:00.001+01:00

casino

2010-07-24T10:26:00.001+01:00

A Bee-Una Abeja (?)

2010-07-16T12:16:00.003+01:00

I found this drawing between old papers. It is part of a walking cycle from an animated pilot I worked on in 1967. I believe this character was called "Damby", or something like that, and it was a sort of a bee. This is the only drawing I have from animations I've done in Argentina.

I think that even before the pilot was completed I gave up working in animation and took a sabatical for two or three years. You can see why.

Rejection Letter

2010-07-10T14:50:00.000+01:00

Jacqueline Boop Meets Pablo

2010-07-04T09:00:00.001+01:00

Betty

2010-06-16T11:47:00.002+01:00

Gurdieff and Sambenito

2010-06-07T10:41:00.001+01:00

"Love and Wetness"

2010-06-02T17:31:00.001+01:00

Animal Demierda

2010-05-31T17:51:00.002+01:00

Güeboludo in "Sotto Il Mare"

2010-05-31T17:28:00.001+01:00

Boludancio en "Güevadas de Navidad"

2010-05-29T19:25:00.004+01:00

Vacudia & Cornudelio

2010-05-29T14:13:00.002+01:00

Character Studies

2010-03-29T14:15:00.004+01:00

Designs

2010-03-29T12:49:00.006+01:00

Five years ago I designed these characters that were turned into 3-D characters by a company I cannot remember the name now (Sorry!)

Storyboard

2010-03-25T14:35:00.021Z

I like SIMPLE storyboards. Over elaborated storyboards, with arrows, direction lines and camera instructions look like bullshit to me. I always draw very simple frames and shoot them with the right timing and minimal camera moves. Very often I use these drawings, enlarged, as rough layouts and colour keys.
I believe in simplicity and spontaneity in the very "unspontaneous" art of animation.
These are the opening scenes for a short I made for Paul McCartney in 1998. "The Light Comes From Within".

Thumbnail

2010-03-11T15:58:00.004Z

I almost always used my animation thumbnail storyboard drawings as layouts or sometimes as final artwork. Here is an example from my film "Shadows Cycle".
Alas I didn't use this image in the final film since I changed my mind about the script.

Mad Car (1998)

2010-02-25T12:41:00.002Z

Rue

2010-02-19T13:37:00.002Z

Una Buena Patada en el Ojete

2010-02-15T16:15:00.002Z

Night Soldier-Soldado Nocturno

2010-02-12T17:12:00.002Z

Cats-Gatos

2010-01-10T18:13:00.003Z

Have a Naguila.

2009-12-30T14:03:00.003Z

The Holiday of Mr. Ghost

2009-11-16T12:54:00.001Z

On The Red Road

2009-11-06T11:46:00.001Z

Illustration

2009-11-02T14:04:00.001Z

Pianissssssssimo

2009-10-30T12:07:00.002Z

Yellow Girl 4

2009-10-12T16:32:00.002+01:00

Yellow Girl 3

2009-09-25T15:58:00.003+01:00

Yellow Girl 2

2009-09-22T19:18:00.002+01:00

Yellow Girl

2009-09-21T17:53:00.002+01:00

Gateau

2009-09-09T18:37:00.002+01:00

Amour de Chatte

2009-09-07T15:33:00.002+01:00

Ludovic and his disagreeing head

2009-08-20T12:30:00.002+01:00

Notification

2009-08-05T13:00:00.003+01:00

I've posted some animation designs here:

http://grillomation.blogspot.com/2009/08/monsieur-pett-sketchbook-1996-part-1.html

Publiqué algunos diseños para animacion aqui:
http://grillomation.blogspot.com/2009/08/monsieur-pett-sketchbook-1996-part-1.html

Old Designs

2009-06-02T15:36:00.005+01:00

Some forgotten character designs I've done around a million years ago.
They were for a friend in the USA. I am not too proud of them, but here they are.

Animation Backgrounds

2009-05-14T12:13:00.006+01:00

In September 2002 with nothing worse to do I painted these humble backgrounds
for a German commercial.

Mozart

2009-05-08T17:44:00.001+01:00

Designs for a project from 1999

Designs for Alka Seltzer

2009-05-05T18:31:00.003+01:00

Designs. The world gets a hangover celebrating the new millennium.

Tex Avery's influenced designs

2009-04-18T18:09:00.002+01:00

These character designs hit the dust even before they were presented to the agency. That was and is the nature of the business. The beautiful tracing on cell was done by Theresa Edwards.

Designs for American Commercial

2009-04-13T15:36:00.002+01:00

From around 1998 or 99

Wide Prairie

2009-03-24T15:24:00.001Z

Curious. We've done this film in 1997. I haven't seen it for a long time and someone had posted it recently in youtube. -Seems to drift outof synch towards the end

The Animator

2009-03-22T19:23:00.000Z

"Era un inutil. No tenia nada mejor que hacer. Se convirtio en....EL ANIMADOR!"

Designs for an Irish Commercial

2009-03-17T11:15:00.004Z

From AGES ago! (2000 or 2001)

May 1984

2008-08-01T15:02:00.002+01:00

Chips hardy has sent me this cutting from "Campaign" dated May 1984.

Um Bongo

2007-12-31T16:23:00.000Z

Written by Andy Blackford, designed, animated and directed by Oscar Grillo. Eric Goldberg animated the letters and the two hands at the end. It was a lot of fun to make and became inordinately successful. A good one!

Seaside Woman

2007-12-12T18:39:00.001Z

Two Pics

2007-12-11T14:57:00.000Z

Buncha Designs

2007-12-10T16:26:00.000Z

Reviving

2007-11-25T13:29:00.001Z

I have been very lazy posting in this blog. It is not my favourite blog but it has lots of visitors. I solemnly swear to post more frequently here. These are designs for animations that never seen the light of day. I hope you still like the "old cartoon" style because that is what I do and will hang mostly.

From The Archives

2007-07-17T10:48:00.000+01:00

Buskin & Beggin

2007-03-20T07:54:00.000Z

Buskin & Beggin, Don't Encourage Them

Kia Ora

2007-03-15T12:30:00.000Z

We made this commercial at Klacto at the beggining of the eighties. It was written by the late John Webster. This commercial became incredibly succesful and popular but it also had it's detractors. We were a bit surprised by these negative reactions because there was no intention to offend anybody.

I found this in YouTube and I don't know who posted it. I am learning to compress videos and soon I will be ready to post some curiosities from our archives.

2007-03-14T22:44:00.000Z

Designs from the late nineties for a project that never happened.

Diseños del final de los noventa para un proyecto que nunca se concretó.

E.S.B.

2006-07-21T12:31:00.000+01:00

Designs for a commercial for the Irish Electricity Board

Forgotten designs

2006-07-15T18:23:00.000+01:00

I found these designs in our archives. Can't remember what they were for...A commercial for a French airline I believe.

Cutters

2006-06-21T15:53:00.000+01:00

I found inside a book several strips of cutting frames from my 1979 epic "Seaside Woman"..I did this rustic scan but soon I'll do a proper one and will post it. Keep watching this space.

Wide Prairie 2

2006-06-12T14:22:00.000+01:00

Some more pictures from Klacto's epic "Wide Prairie"

Cartooney drawings

2006-05-21T19:47:00.000+01:00

Three Cartooney drawings.

Stupid Girl

2006-05-19T18:17:00.000+01:00

These pictures were also previouly posted.

I'll post some unpublished cartoony material on more regular basis from now on. So... keep visiting.

Cheers!

Cartoon Posters

2006-05-19T14:10:00.000+01:00

I had posted these pictures previously in another blog but I feel I have to keep moving this one that was neglected for months. Let me know if you liked this.

Oscar

Wide Prairie

2005-11-01T18:04:00.000Z

This film was produced by us just before Linda McCartney passed away...She wrote the song and we animated it. We could not describe the film as memorable but the work was done with enormous commitment, professionalism and joy.
You can see some more stills at: http://grillomation.blogspot.com/

Pett

2005-10-28T17:59:00.000+01:00

These are character sketches for "Monsieur Pett", a 24 minutes animated film produced by Klacto Animations (Us!!!!). I doubt you may have seen it but it is bloody wonderful. Among other things it is a homage to the French silent comedian Max Linder and the UPA animated films of Bob Cannon.

If you want to see some colour stills of this masterpiece go to:
http://grillomation.blogspot.com/

Letterhead

2005-10-27T17:48:00.000+01:00

This was the first letterhead of our company, drawn in 1980. It is a rare item...This is the only one I have and it has a drawing of my little daughter.

Treasure Island

2005-10-20T17:26:00.000+01:00

In the year 2000 we've been working on an animated version of "Treasure Island". It would have been a completly European project. It had a wonderful script by Furio & Giacomo Scarpelli. Furio is a master scriptwriter from Italy with hundreds of writing credits in his curriculum. With his son Giacomo he wrote the script of the Oscar winner "Il Postino". We had produced a great number of designs and completed three quarters of the animatic, but unfortunately around that time Disney released"Treasure Planet" and its disastrous showing at the box office signed the death sentence to our project. Here are some examples of our designs.

"shadow Cycle"

2005-10-19T19:21:00.000+01:00

These are three images for "Shadow Cycle", a 20 minute animated film we produced for Sir Paul McCartney with music by Linda McCartney in 2002.

Here we go!

2005-10-19T16:31:00.000+01:00

Ted Rockley and Oscar Grillo

We have been working professionally together for the last twenty five years creating animated films. Our company is called "Oscar Grillo & Ted Rockley Animations" and we are damn good.