🇦🇺 Big Art Idiot // Head of Design on YOLO // Prev. Lead Art Director on Bluey // A worrying array of other animation things too
cattodrums
@gmail
.com 🕊
1st time
#portfolio
callout! Hallo!
I'm Catriona. I've got 6 years experience in vis dev, character & bg design. I'm the prev. lead Art Director on
#Bluey
. Drawing makes me happy :0)
Looking for in-house or freelance in 🇦🇺 & 🇺🇸
✨cattodrums
@gmail
.com
✨
Hahah god damn this is absolutely insane.
Huge props to odd1sout for highlighting all the things we on Bluey crew love and are proud of about the show. It's cool to see how globally beloved it's become over the past few years.
Enough time has passed I hopefully won't get murdered for saying this but I was the one who did this lmao. To amuse both myself and font skeleton aficionado
@goodboytown
🤌
At the time I.....did not think it was that obvious :'''^)
Surreal doesn't even cover it at this point. Having my designs for Bluey's house being turned into...an actual house, is boggling my brain a little. Here's the initial sketches! It's an honour to have designed a home so intrinsically QLD that's resonated with so many people.
On a quiet, leafy street in the heart of Brisbane, something magical has happened... the Heeler home from Bluey’s wonderful world has been recreated – for real life – and is now listed on
@Airbnb
! 🏠💙
➡️
📸 by Hannah Puechmarin
They're So Back ⚔️☠️🌷
@MichaelRCusack
's YOLO is BACK. S3 is called YOLO Rainbow Trinity and it will be coming....at some point. idk! We're just all really excited to be making it!!!!
I'm art directing again B^) Can't wait to show you all it's going bonkers so far.
F I N A L L Y get to do my first
#PortfolioDay
!!
I'm Catriona. I've got 6 years experience in vis dev, character & bg design. I'm the prev. lead Art Director on
#Bluey
. Drawing makes me happy :0)
Looking for work in 🇦🇺 & 🇺🇸
🕊cattodrums
@gmail
.com
🕊
I stepped off at the start of S2, but as the person who created the Bluey background style from scratch, it's still weird when people go this deep on it. Or are even influenced by the style.
Here's the locked rough sketch of the Bluey house for any interested.
Bluey ~ Colour Roughs pt.4.1 // The Creek
I don’t think in many preschool shows you get to colour-script a mood to reflect the arch of a story over 4 days. I really really enjoyed the challenge haha.
As promised, the rest of the
#Bluey
S1 art!
Bluey Layouts pt.1 // The Creek //
The Creek was an enormous undertaking for everyone on the crew. Art direction took a month as opposed to the usual week. When the ep was completed, it was a real 'whoah, did we do that?' moment.
We won an Emmy ❕It can’t be overstated how much hard work and how much passion is put into this show by the crew.
As always, thankyou for loving it as much as we do :^)
YOLO SILVER DESTINY PRODUCTION ART THREAD
'bout time I got off my fat arse and posted some YOLO stuff ay. I was Head of Design & I stuck my grubby fingers in everywhere, so I'll try and show you all the fun stuff!
To start here's some bgs from the Wojak grotto in the final ep
YOLO Silver Destiny is OUT & tha girls are BACK 🌷
Everyone worked tirelessly to make this the stupidest cartoon possible. You won't be disappointed so come give it a geez.
Episodes dropping weekly
🇺🇸 [as] & HBO Max
🇦🇺 Stan
🇬🇧 [as] & All 4
WHAT ARE THOSE DICKHEADS DOING?~An
#ExtinctionRebellion
and Climate Crisis Explainer
I wanted to compile all the answers for myself, and every other confused and curious Australian. Share it with someone who is confused by XR! Your friends! Your mum! Your local MP!
#auspol
The Queensland State of Origin gothic (1/2) // The Blues keep winning and every match is now a rain game in Perth. You smell a dreadful burning smell from the kitchen, but the garlic bread is a frozen rock even after 40 minutes on high in the oven.
It's been a while since I posted these and the show has grown a lot since then, so I thought this would be a good chance to revisit!
S1 Bluey Vis Dev Art // pt.1 🔹🐶
I give further explanations and post more art on tumblr throughout the thread. Click thru to check it out.
WHAT ARE THOSE DICKHEADS DOING? ~ An
#ExtinctionRebellion
& Climate Crisis explainer
Have you shared this with a mate confused by XR yet?
I've got updated print & web versions in the drive!
The Strange Chores pt.1 ~ Concept Art // Back in '17 I was on Chores quite early before prod started. Which meant I got to do some really fucking fun world building art w/
@scott_v_b
leading. You know, the kind of stuff you dream every dev art job is. I was a very lucky duck 😎
Come get your socks blown off, the dogs are back and every little bit of the show is beautiful!! Joe has finally been worn down and they're allowed to do gradient colours instead of just flat tones in the background art now, no one is safe.
As promised, the rest of the
#Bluey
S1 art!
Bluey Layouts pt.1 // The Creek //
The Creek was an enormous undertaking for everyone on the crew. Art direction took a month as opposed to the usual week. When the ep was completed, it was a real 'whoah, did we do that?' moment.
#smilingfriends
bgs pt.2 - Mr Frog
Tragically they spotted the statue's ballsack and had it censored :'^)
The bar shot is unabashedly Beehive state themed due to my unwavering and irrational allegiance to Utah
Around 378 million of you told us to make Smiling Friends. So we’re making Smiling Friends with
@MichaelRCusack
and
@psychicpebble
and it’s coming this year. Yay!
Now returning to your regularly scheduled broadcast...of
#SmilingFriends
bg art pt. 6! - Shrimp's Odyssey
I did a few for this ep but here's the two favs. Love how as soon as you put that diamond grate on the windows it's immediately straya.
If you swindle me out of $20 for an art museum with only 4 exhibits, have absolutely no doubt I will be taking photos of the Monets’ on the sly against your rulings // 🌌📵🌌// 📍Naoshima
Absolutely bizarre and surreal seeing the rooms I designed be turned into set pieces for a Bluey play. Here's the original scrappy sketch of the bedroom for reference. 🐕
Now it's out I can show ya some production design work I did at Flying Bark on the show
#FriendZspace
back in 2020! Rest is on the ol' portfolio site if you want to have a squizz B^)
Bluey ~ Colour Roughs pt.5.3 // Camping //
Infinite possibilities and a family marshmallow sesh // That marks the end of all the stuff I'll show from S1. Thank you all for following along and supporting us! I feel v blessed to have art directed thru S1 since the very start.
Decided to wait out quarantine in Canberra to get back to QLD from NSW. Did not expect to go to Canberra this year
//🌳🕑🌳//
#pleinair
#procreate
#nopleinnogain
I've been art directing a show for the past year called Bluey ! It's on ABC kids in Australia. They're good dogs we've been working hard on, you should check it out! Hopefully I'll be able to post some dev art from it soon B^)
#Bluey
@FromHappyRock
You’re making direct reference to my own career here so I’ll add some extra nuance to this.
If my range began and ended at Bluey I would spend most of the year unemployed.
Last but not least everyone’s favourite Foster guzzling seppo
@Nassault
// 📓🦅📓// (who also does the most fucking amazing quietly wild vids u should check out)
Bluey ~ Colour Roughs pt.2 // Kids //
Kids was a really interesting challenge because we had to find a colour scheme for the supermarket that organised the busyness, worked with the characters, and didn’t create a cluster fuck of copyright issues :o)
Bluey ~ Layouts
Drawing the backgrounds for Bluey is a continuation of everything we set down in the style of the home. Lots of rounded square shapes and flat perspective to create a more graphic look. // full thing on the blog! //
Mask Acne - Sketches from 2020 & 21
Hiya! It's just me. I've compiled some noodlings n' doodlings from two years that need no introduction. Come have a squizz if you like.
It's free to download here: 🕊️
The second half of Bluey S1 is out on ABC in Australia! I’ll post more of the art once the episodes roll out, but in the meantime here is my beloved bin chicken run shot which I fought doggedly for //
#bluey
🌏🌐🌏