uGlee for the MAD Show
Last night episode four of the new MAD animated show on the Cartoon Network aired another of the segments I worked on… a parody of the TV show “Glee”.
This was easily the most work I’ve done so far for a single segment. I think there were 14 main characters to draw plus a number of cameos, extra faces and expressions. To try and save time I did them in tight pencil form and then colored them as opposed to doing any polished linework… the result was a lot rougher than I had hoped. However I thought the animation folks at the WB studios did a pretty great job with what I gave them to work with.
Here are some of the images i did as character guides for the “uGlee” segment:
Matthew Morrison/ Will Schuster
Jane Lynch/ Sue Sylvester
Lea Michele/ Rachel Berry
Cory Monteith/ Finn Hudson
Dianna Agron/ Quinn Fabray
Mark Salling/ Noah “Puck” Puckerman
Amber Riley/ Mercedes Jones
Chris Colfer/ Kurt Hummel
Kevin McHale/ Artie Abrams
Jenna Ushkowitz/ Tina Cohen-Chang
Naya Rivera/ Santana Lopez
Jayma Mays/ Emma Pillsbury
Iqbal Theba/ Principal Figgins
Brad The Piano Guy
And some cameos…
Victoria Justice
The Jonas Bros
Miley Cirus
Interestingly enough shortly after I did this work for the TV show I was assigned the art on the parody of “Glee” for MAD, which will be in the next issue due out in a few weeks.
Tags: animated show, Cartoon Network, MAD, WB Animation
Holy Cow Tom….These are friggin AWESOME!!!!! Finn,Quinn, Kurt and the wheelchair guy are Dead Ringers!!!!!!! They are ALL spot-on accurate! I can’t wait to see your MAD assignment!
Very cool!
Absolutely beautiful….
I just started a drawing course and one day I want to be drawing like that!!
The likenesses are so good on these, Tom. Great job!
Incredible job! There are many terrific likenesses… Kurt is especially hilarious.
There are some strong chins in there, Tom!
Hummel is a hoot! Great stuff all around.
Nice! Even better than ( I have a hard time saying this!) your idol Mort Drucker~
Thanks but I have to disagree there. Mort is the King.
Tom,
I saw the episode last night. Great work! I’m glad to see they’re using guys from the magazine.
Just curious — How much lead time did you have?
Thanks,
Scott
Not a lot of lead time. I usually get a week to 10 days to do the art, but since it is only a single caricature and figure and some extra faces per main character I can do several a day. This one was by far the most characters for a single segment I’ve done. CSiCarly was only 5 characters and subsequent ones between 4 and maybe 10 characters.
Hi Tom amazing characters, its very nice how you simplified the details and not compromising their unique features, just awesome. Take care.
AMAZING. they’re all SO good. congratz
My favorite MAD segment! great job!