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jurassicliz · 1 year

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Brendan Fraser in GQ is everything.

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How Brendan Fraser Made It All the Way Back, 11/16/22 (GQ)

#brendan fraser #gq #2022 #man of the year #gq man of the year #comeback of the year #the mummy #george of the jungle #monkey bone #professionals #the whale #doom patrol #dudley do right #rick o'connell

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j4m3s-b4k3r · 5 months

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MONKEYBONE

Here are some pre-production drawings done for MONKEYBONE, a film directed by Henry Selick. I worked on the film very briefly, perhaps only a week or two, helping with story beat boards. It was a fun gig, in part due to the location in The Presidio.

Nowadays The Presidio is one of the jewels of San Francisco - a truly beautiful parkland for residents to play in - but when I first arrived in San Francisco, it was still a functioning military base. It was already known that it would soon close, however. So discussion about what was next for the site bubbled for the first few years that I lived here. Would it become low income housing? Or yet another swanky property development, as seemed likely. Who else but big money could pay for the cleanup required after the military had left so many toxic cooties (asbestos etc) behind?

Anyway, while such things were being decided, some of the abandoned buildings would be rented out for short term projects, one being an animated/live action comedy, that was in pre-production circa 1998 (adapted from a graphic novel - DARKTOWN by Kaja Blackley & Vanessa Chong). I worked on MONKEYBONE in the early, eager, happy, anything-is-possible phase. It may have been so early that our work was merely a proposal, before a ‘green light’.

Henry himself was in a great spirits, now that he was out of the shadow of Tim Burton, and Chris Columbus was his exec producer. Many of the crew were Henry’s old cronies from Nightmare Before Christmas, such as production designer Bill Boes. He’d already built models of some of the sets & locations, and these were great reference. With a tiny lipstick camera we could shoot the models from all kinds of angles, and this was enormously helpful, allowing myself & Lawrence Marvitt to bang out panels relatively quickly, under the guidance of Mike Cachuela.

Many things had not yet been decided on, such as casting. The protagonist in my sketches here was based on Nicolas Cage, but of course Brendan Fraser got the role of of Stu. Other roles were played by Rose McGowan, Dave Foley, Bob Odenkirk, John Turturro, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan and even Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito. The final film really had an amazing cast.

The Presidio was not yet full of dining options, but our workspace wasn’t far from the Presidio gates, where we’d have lunch at Liverpool Lil’s, a great little pub (that has recently burned down, sadly). I also remember a really fun swanky dinner (I forget now where) with the entire tiny pre-pro crew, where Henry was in a jovial mood and writer Sam Hamm was too. Both hilariously regaling us with their Hollywood horror stories (and comparing their scars inflicted by Tim Burton). Best of all, someone else picked up the exorbitant check! (I think it was Sam Hamm?)

Years after my brief stint on MONKEYBONE I got an invite to a preview screening in early 2001. The film was madcap, weird, & even disturbing at times. Much of what I’d thought would be animated was actually handled with costumed humans in the final film, surprisingly. But it was exciting to have worked on a feature film that actually got made. This was a period where I worked on many great projects that collapsed before making it to the screen. I remember enjoying it until the very end, when I saw that I hadn't got a credit (I hadn't worked on it long enough apparently). In the lobby after the screening, there were a lot of concerned/worried/disappointed faces. Whereas I was bummed that my name was was not in the credits, many people seemed unhappy that their names were.

Ha ha!

Sure enough, the film was a financial & critical flop and has low score to this very day (despite a tiny subset of viewers who still love it, and look back on it fondly). I learned that there had been much tussling along the way to the screen. Perhaps the guy who'd done Home Alone was not the right choice to ‘mentor’ Henry? Did things go sideways after Rupert Murdoch fired Bill Mechanic? Or was it merely typical studio meddling? My guess is it was another case of AOTA: all of the above.

Henry himself sums up MONKEYBONE this way:

"I have two thoughts: it never would have been a big hit. It certainly would have done better if they advertised it a little... I would still like to do a Director's Cut because there's a lot of cool stuff that was removed... my main lesson learned is, I don't really do well in the live-action universe... I love my world of stop-motion... I went down a slippery slope to make Monkeybone, but the film that came out it's not my vision of what the film could've been, and I just don't thrive in that.”

Not long after I worked there, the fate of The Presidio was finally decided when George Lucas’ proposal to develop The Letterman hospital into a media centre was accepted in 1999. And it became the mixed-use space SF residents play in today.

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Just last weekend, we spent a day in The Presidio, enjoying its restaurants & bars and exploring the new Tunnel Tops park. As we strolled around, I tried to figure out which of The Presidio's many buildings we worked in in 1998, but couldn't pin it down (of course, the Letterman hospital complex was levelled to build what became ILM/Lucasfilm, so perhaps the buildings we worked in are gone).

#cartoons #animation #stop motion #henry selick #monkey bone #monkeybone #storyboarding #visual level

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thegreatbobbo · 8 months

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#monkey bone

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eriochromatic · 5 months

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In the outskirts of the city lies a rundown apartment building filled with eccentric residents... Doesn’t seem like anyone checks on this part of town, but it’s not like they’re causing trouble, right?

Impel Down Escape Team Modern AU!!! 🏬🏬🏬 they r all living in the same building and being silly together

#one piece #impel down #summit war saga #monkey d. luffy #portgas d ace #buggy the clown #sir crocodile #one piece jinbe #emporio ivankov #bon clay #daz bones #galdino #inazuma one piece #erio art #erio stuff

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taikova · 5 months

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fools (affectionate)

truly having a good time using markers. used a mix of brush pens and copics etc, some of the highlights are from a white pencil.

#one piece #the straw hats #one piece fan art #monkey d. luffy #sanji #jinbe #nami #usopp #roronoa zoro #tony tony chopper #dead bones brook #franky #nico robin #food #alcohol #taiart #traditional art #markers

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theghostshost · 2 months

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Oblivion

#lego monkie kid #digital art #lmk #lego monkie kid fanart #digital drawing #digital illustration #lmk lbd #lmk lady bone demon #lady bone demon #lego lbd #legomonkiekid #lego monkey kid fanart #lego monkie kid lady bone demon #lego monkie kid lbd

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winterpower98 · 7 months

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Thank you to @aniflowers for commissioning me!

This was from her Fire, Ice and Bone AU

Commission Info

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #fire ice and bone au #monkey king #sun wukong #qi xiaotian #six eared macaque #liu er #lady bone demon #baigujing #commission #commissions #doodles #digital art #sai #winterpower98

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elirastudio · 6 months

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The lady new champion

#art #six eared macaque #lego monkie king #lego monkey kid #lady bone demon #lmk mayor #liu er mihou #lmk lbd

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takumi-i-e · 1 year

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Costume change ✨✨

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mokneydloaf · 8 months

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#one piece #funny #luffy #ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #nami #usopp #tony tony chopper #nico robin #franky #brook #monkey d luffy #cat burglar nami #god usopp #chopper #robin #cutty flam #dead bone brooks #zou #one piece episode 773

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shatteredstarsart · 15 days

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I redid the color wheel thingy I made a few months ago because I didn’t really 100% like it when I originally made it and I definitely don’t like it as much as I did then

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angry-roomba-army · 6 months

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even more of these (source: donffy.weebly.com)

[FIRST] [SECOND] [X] [FOURTH] [FIFTH]

#angry roomba whirrs #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #lmk ao guang #lmk lady bone demon #lmk lbd #lmk sun wukong #lmk wukong #lmk monkey king #lmk reference sheets

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ainnur · 2 months

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Video version of my last comic (?) about Possessed Buddy which Bai He asking SWK if he can kill her.....

(Yeah yeah this is shit, I know)

#lego monkie kid #lmk #sun wukong #lego monkie king #monkey king #monkei kid #lmk bai he #lady bone demon #lbd #possessed buddy #yah that what i'm gonna call them #what even is this

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alicemclean-2203 · 10 months

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I'M DONE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH part 1~ please let me know what other characters you would like to see in my style.

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zeecringez · 6 months

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me we mwe wen mw wen wen me wen womab mw wenen woman

#lego monkie kid #lego monkey kid fanart #monkie kid fanart #lbd #lmk lbd #lady bone demon #WOMANA AWOGAGA #AREHHAGR #She can dominate my world #ahayayyyy #slides on expensive car

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ningadudexx · 1 year

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makkmakara on insta posted a knight of hope mk and it made me happy (i am a knight of hope too :D) so credit of the idea to them!

Hey gamers welcome back to me posting the same character 41 times in one post

Also the 4th post was a collab idea by one of my bestest friends EVER GO CHECK OUT @ cherrybomb_25_ on insta NOOWW to see her part of the collab (she drew mei)!! i love her art so so much PLUS SHE EDITTED IT A DIFFERENT WAY SO GO LOOK AT IT

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