IT'S WORKING!!! GROJBAND PLAYLIST ABOVE

Okay GROJFANS !!!

AT LONG LAST - I FINALLY GOT THE THING TO WORK!!!

I’ve uploaded a playlist (above) of all the production music for season one. This is how it came in to us for approvals from the composers. These are the names we use and the first run lyrics before any changes. You may notice some differences from the ones you’re use to hearing AND a song or two that may have been cut for time.

ENJOY!!!

GROJBAND - FINAL PASS

Just wrapping up the last few anim revs on season 1 folks!!!!

Can't wait for you guys to see these new eps. They're pretty wicked if I do say so myself.

GREAT WORK GB TEAM!!!

THE GROJBAND CONTEST!!!

The GROJBAND Contest: Go behind-the-scenes with the creators of GROJBAND and meet the guy who voices Cory!

READ MORE

Grojband’s Got Game on TELETOON!

If you weren’t already pumped enough about Grojband coming to Canada on TELETOON, we’ve got some news to turn things up to eleven! The mad geniuses at Secret Location have partnered to develop a new cross-platform Grojband game! READ MORE...

VISIT THE WEBSITE
www.grojband.com

GROJBAND 3D ART - UPDATE

WHAT'S THIS??? A CARRIE SKULL???? JOY!

Pics courtesy of Jennifer Ko

Check out this cool homemade SKULL necklace!!!

GROJBAND CONCEPT ART

Above: This was the very first drawing I did for GROJBAND. 

How things change!

Above: My very 1st drawing of the Corey design we chose.

Corey, Laney concept art by Todd Kauffman

Whoa! 

Found some old concept art. Creepy. Imagine if they ended up looking like this, weird.

GROJBAND CONCEPT ART

Corey's bedroom. Concept art by Ed Lee

Laney's bedroom. Concept art by Ed Lee

Riffin living room. Concept art by Ed Lee

GROJBAND ICONS

Some awesome GROJBAND ICONS courtesy of FREMANTLE MEDIA!

CANADIAN PREMIER DATE!!!

Get yer PVR's ready!

GROJBAND is set to premier on TELETOON 

Thursday, September 5th at 7pm!!!!!!

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO - HMMM?

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"THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM" is a post where we'll be updating Grojfans with little teaser "production" pics from the second half of season 1. 

Try to figure out what pic belongs to which episode!

BREAKING NEWS!!!

"I'm BUZZ NEWSWORTHY, and this just in! 

That's right Grojfans... it's the titles for the remaining 26 episodes of season one! Oh what wonder these simple configuration of letters evoke! I can only imagine what shenanigans Corey and friends will get up to this time. All I can say is it better be good or I'm out of a job, ha ha ha!"

GROJBAND OPENING LEICA

GROJBAND (c) Fresh TV Inc. 2013

Here's our GROJBAND opening leica. Storyboard by the awesome Kyle Marshall.

Below is the ORIGINAL 1 minute opening theme also boarded by Kyle.

GROJBAND (c) Fresh TV Inc. 2013

Below is the ORIGINAL opening board for those interested in stepping through it.

Grojband Opening by Kyle Marshall

COREY LIP-SYNCS?!?!?!

No way!

Corey's legit! He sings all his own stuff LIVE!

But to make him sing, the animators must do something called

LIP SYNC ANIMATION.

Here's a quick little video I made to show the inner workings of a Flash file and how our animators pull off the illusion of life in GROJBAND!

GROJBAND Behind the Scenes

A small peek into the world of our Animation Director, Michelle Tripp

LANEY MADE A CAKE!!!

LANEY (Bryn McAuley) made a GROJBAND cake to celebrate our last record. 

THANKS BRYN! YOU ROCK!!!

P.S. - It was a bitter sweet record. So happy to have recorded the last ep. So sad to say good-bye to all the amazing actors. You made us laugh, you made us cry. Hope we get a second season.

Ep 26 HERE, US ROCK!

Big thanks to the hilarious Mike Kiss and his writing team for keeping us all in stitches this season. And to Merle Anne Ridley, our brilliant voice director for her keen ear and friendly demeanour.

ON THE SCHEDULE

Our friends from LA sent us this pic. So cool to see it on the schedule like this. And right before Adventure Time! Killer. Big thanks to the Quane family!!

WE ARE LIVE!!!

If you're NOT geo blocked (like me) you can check out all the new GROJBAND clips CN is putting up on their site.

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/grojband/video/index.html?atclk_gn=picker_Grojband 

NEW GROJBAND PROMO!!!

Killer GROJBAND promo from Fremantle Media.

A huge, HUGE thanks to the entire GB crew! This looks AMAZING and all your hard work has certainly paid off. You should all be very proud - I know Mark and I are. 

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PREMIER! CONGRATS EVERYONE!!!

MUSIC MARATHON ON CARTOON NETWORK

Check out what's on the CARTOON NETWORK BLOG!!!! 

Musically inspired marathon?!?! Say WHAAAAAAAAT!

"The new show Grojband kicks off next week! And like any good concert, we’ve booked an awesome opening act. Check out a musically inspired marathon this Sunday, June 9. The killer lineup includes Looney Tunes, Johnny Test, MAD, Annoying Orange, Gumball, Adventure Time, and Regular Show! It all starts Sunday at 11a/10c!"

ANIMATION MAGAZINE

Mark and I did an interview with Ramin Zahed from ANIMATION MAGAZINE!!!

Check it out here - http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/music-to-sooth-the-savage-teen/

Stay tuned for Q&A's with Mike Kiss, our executive story editor and other key members of our talented crew.

STORYBOARD PITCH!!!

Storyboard artist Brian Coughlan came in and pitched us a sequence for an upcoming episode where Trina's soul is trapped in her car. What does a possessed car do in the world of GROJBAND? Why, go to the mall for a make-over shopping spree, natch.

Storyboard pitches historically have been done by having the artist hang their drawings up on the walls and then talk and act their way through the show. We work digitally now, so we have the guys talk and act their way through the show while showing their drawings on our computer screen.

BREAKING NEWS!!!

"I'm BUZZ NEWSWORTHY, and this just in! 

Something new is about to hit TV's everywhere, LAUGHS!

And if you're like me, and prefer to have your laughs presented in an orderly fashion, 

you'll want to be the first in line to tune in and rock out 

June 10th at 5:00pm on CARTOON NETWORK. It's the place to be!

BUZZ OUT!"

Grojband
Mon Jun 10 - 5:00pm - 101 - Cloudy With a Chance of Malt Balls / 

Dance of the Dead [SERIES PREMIERE]
Tue Jun 11 - 5:00pm - 102 - Pox N' Roll / No Strings Attached
Wed Jun 12 - 5:00pm - 103 - Indie 400 / Math of Kon
Thu Jun 13 - 5:00pm - 104 - Space Jammin' / Wish Upon a Jug
Fri Jun 14 - 5:00pm - 105 - All You Need is Cake / Helmet

GROJ-TUNES !!!

GROJBAND, VOL. 1 NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON

ITunes!!!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/grojband-vol.-1/id647391024?showLC=true

ZOINKS... ZOMBIES!!!!

Here's some screen grabs of part 2 of our premier episode 

DANCE OF THE DEAD.

GROJBAND FUN FACTS

Betcha didn't know that the name GODZILLA came from the Japanese word 'Kujira'. 

(Screen grab from S1E02 Cloudy With A Chance of Malt balls)

Kin and Kon Kujira playing air guitar with their future selves. 

CHECK FOR UPDATED POSTS

FYI - I often go back and add NEW drawings to old posts. So jump into the archives and take a peek now and then - who knows, you may find something you haven't seen before.

GROJBAND STANDEES - WHA?!?!?

Co-director Michelle Tripp with our newly acquired 

GROJBAND STANDEES!!!

Comin' atcha in AMAZING 2-D!!

NEW PREMIER DATE!!!

Get yer TiVo's ready!

GROJBAND is set to premier on CARTOON NETWORK US 

Monday, June 10 at 5pm (ET, PT)

Will air Monday-Friday at 5pm (ET, PT) on Cartoon Network

GROJBAND MUGSHOTS

(Screen grabs from GB_S1E11_Line of Cred)

C'MON LANEY... IT'LL ROCK!!

Laney's usually pretty skeptical of Corey's big ideas for the band. And for good reason. Things never turn out exactly as they plan. 

This is a storyboard panel from a sequence I'm working on this weekend. Doing boards digitally lets us drop actual production backgrounds into our scenes where we can draw our characters on top. It makes things a bit easier for each department down the line. 

NICK MALLORY

NICK MALLORY

16 year old Nick Mallory is a real looker, and get this - he’s NICE too. He sits between Trina and Mina in homeroom and ALL the girls are crushing on him - EVEN the school's principal seems to be smitten with him. Maybe it’s because he’s a straight A student, captain of the football team with all the charm of a Hollywood heart throb.

So if Nick Mallory could have anyone, why does he want Trina? Good question. It seems the more Corey and the band mess with Trina, the more interesting she becomes to Nick Mallory. He sees her differently then the rest of us and thinks Trina’s vulnerable side is a whole lotta fun and kind of adorable. Nick Mallory’s one flaw - Nick Mallory talks in the 3rd person.

NICK: "The secret to a cool lean, is not needing anything to lean on"

GROJBAND FUN FACT

Betcha didn't know: The name Nick Mallory comes from Nick Moore and Mallory Keaton -  two stars from the 80's hit TV show Family Ties. 

Betcha didn't know: Not only is Graeme Cornies the voice of Nick Mallory but he's also one of the "real life" composers that writes Grojband's wicked tunes. When we hear a rough cut song in production, it's usually Nick's voice singing them.

SO, HOW DO YOU DO IT?

When people find out what I do for a living, they usually say "Wow, that's a cool job!" And they're right! But making cartoons is a lot of work. Dozens and dozens of people work together on about a million different parts of a production just to make one 11-minute episode.

Here's a really bare-bones breakdown of the process for GROJBAND. Each of the stops along this timeline could easily be expanded to be a full page of it's own.

It's still a cool job!

~M 

(full-size version HERE)

TRINA'S DIARY SEQUENCE

Here's a section of Trina's diary sequence. The idea behind this sequence was to have a 

Sailor Moon-esque moment that could be reused in every episode. Although, we do tweak the sequence depending upon what mood she's in when she 'GOES DIARY'.

This particular freak out is from S1E03 Creep Away Camp. Thus the marsh mallows. It has nothing to do with TDI ;) But I must admit, I do like marsh mallows.