This is owned by Explosm Entertainment, but I drew and animated everything here! This is an animatic, not the final animation, but if you're interested in how it turned out, click here to watch Sweet Flips on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDhwT9qY9mE

This one is going to feel wildly different from the final product, because both skater dudes have different voices. The director, Mike, provided temp voices for the duration of this pre-production phase, and we didn't get the lines of the two skater dudes until much later.

Couple of things I tried out here, I had a lot of fun getting practiced with character facial acting with asymmetrical details. I didn't know how the huge-explosion shockwave glitching out the camera would've worked out, but it seemed to do alright. Annnd I made this into kind of a love-letter to my middle-school / high-school days by making the temp soundtrack entirely CKY.

One thing that didn't quite translate in the final, I tried making the place where he's skating some kinda artsy city park thing (something I've seen at Texas Tech), where you probably wouldn't be allowed to skate on it, but in final they made it a skatepark, which was kinda confusing to fans. Another thing was, our background artist Denise played a couple of voices in this, and in one of her takes as a courtroom attendee, she makes this volumed mutter that I personally thought sounded like she was eating something. I thought it was pretty funny, so I had a courtroom attendee eat a candy-bar in time with the VO take.

So when the camera moves to the defendant, and back to the crowd cheering, she's cheering with a mouthful of that same candy bar. It was kinda funny, and they decided to keep it in the animatic and go through with it to final- But then they removed her voice take because it stuck out too much, and replaced it with the sound of that court lady munching on a candy bar. It was a detail that seemed to be met with confusion by the fans, because now this lady has a mouthful of chocolate for no reason, lmao. I learned that sometimes that small of a gag might not be worth including in the future, because it can be distracting and pull attention away from the point of the actual, written joke.

Directed by Mike Salcedo
Screenplay by Rob DenBleyker
Story by Joel Watson, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick, Michael Rousselet, Mike Salcedo

Featuring the voices of
Mike Salcedo as both skater dudes
Kris Wilson as Officer #1
Rob DenBleyker as Officer #2
Bill Jones as Officer #3
Myself as Officer #4
Jon Murphy as Nearby Cop
Bill Jones as Another Nearby Cop
Denise Magdale as Panicked Mother
Dave McElfatrick as Courtroom Prosecutor
Trisha Romo, Denise Magdale, Bill Jones, Jon Murphy, and Myself as Courtroom Attendees
Mike Salcedo as Defendant's Lawyer
Rob DenBleyker as Judge

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