Storyboard to final comparison for "Too Many Patricks"! This has been one of my favorite episodes to work on to date--especially because we got to work off of the rough boards by the incomparable Aaron Springer!!!! It was definitely an honor to work in tandem with such a figurehead of the SB legacy, and we definitely tried to make sure we were translating the spirit of his humor and drawing style. This episode and sequence especially was really formative in getting me to understand how things move and how the animators will translate our drawings.
I'm desperately searching for the Photoshop file I made a month ago for this weekend's Halloween D&D game... but instead I found this!
It's god ol' Neptune's Palace from The Patrick Show.
I guess Neptune's Palace never really had a full design done, so I whipped up this reference for the board artists back when I was directing. There needed to be multiple areas for socializing and subterfuge, and I wanted some lobster topiary. I haven't seen the finished episode, but I wish it luck!
challengers twitter pointed out something very cool: art's coach speaking to him in german!
the subs says "just invite her to serve." (which doesn't make any sense? and art doesn't even go to her after that lmao?) but he apparently actually says "wirf den ball etwas höher." which means "throw the ball a little higher.".
so art knows what patrick's house looks like which means he went there, he understands when his coach speaks to him in german and he's the only one who can pronounce "zweig", a german surname, the right way.
art learning german for patrick and spending holidays with him and his family is canon, i don't make the rules.