Mike BaBoon Design

Yes, I've done another alphabet. I keep coming up with these and they kind of become an obsession until they are finished. This time, I wanted to pay tribute to another Jim Henson creation after the success of my Muppet Alphabet and my continued appreciation of these characters, but Sesame Street spans so many years and so many generations of fans that it was difficult to try to restrict to only one character per letter. After all, how do you choose between Bert and Big Bird? Elmo and Ernie? So in the theme of education, I opted to expand this alphabet to include upper and lower case letters for more of an epic creation. Even with this, I had to put some popular characters aside, including Hoots the Owl, the Twiddlebugs, SAM the Robot, Sully, Biff, Barkley, Betty Lou and Baby Bear (that's a lot of B's). How many can you name? Legend: Anything Muppet, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird, Bert, Cookie Monster, Gladys the Cow, Don Music, Dorothy, Ernie, Elmo, Forgetful Jones, ...

Depicted are: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Bart Simpson, C. Montgomery Burns, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Edna Krabappel, Ned Flanders, Groundskeeper Willie, Homer Simpson, Itchy, Jimbo Jones, Krusty the Clown, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Otto Mann, Principal Seymour Skinner, Major Joe Quimby, Ralph Wiggum, Scratchy, Troy McClure, Uter Zorker, Milhouse Van Houten, Waylon Smithers, Xena Warrior Princess, Yes Guy, Artie Ziff By the way, I know there is another Simpsons Alphabet out there. I found it when I was over 3/4 done this one. Oh well, there's room out there for two of these. Tweet

I had been working on a few ideas for new Vinylmation sets, one of which was Villains 3. Included in this set was going to be the Headless Horseman from 1949's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Of course, Disney then decided to include the Headless Horseman as the chaser in their Animation 2 series ( http://destinationvinylmation.com/2012/01/animation-2-chaser-great-or-missing-something/ ) So rather than waiting for everything else to come together, I thought it would be a good time to share my concept for this character: I'll admit that this one was a bit of a challenge. I think it turned out okay, but not great. You could make a removable pumpkin head perhaps but I wanted to try to include the horse as well. Plus there isn't a lot to the design of the character other than shadows and some key light effects. This has been one of the key criticisms of the official Disney design actually (well, that and the fact that it doesn't actually have a head). So I imagined Mick...

I'm on a bit of an Alphabet kick right now. Originally I was thinking about a Toy Story alphabet but there were still quite a few blanks. Expanding to include the entire Pixar collection was very helpful, though I did have to cut a few key players to try to keep somewhat of a balance between the films (sorry Woody, Mike Wazowski and Marlin). Depicted are: Anton Ego (Ratatouille), Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story), Carl Fredrickson (Up), Dory (Finding Nemo), Eve (WALL-E), Flik (A Bug's Life), Geri (Geri's Game short), Hamm (Toy Story), Mr. Incredible, aka Bob Parr (The Incredibles), Jessie (Toy Story), Kevin (Up), Lightning McQueen (Cars), Mater (Cars), Nemo (Finding Nemo), Omnidroid (The Incredibles), Princess Merida (Brave), Queen Ant (A Bug's Life), Remy (Ratatouille), Sulley (Monsters, Inc.), Tinny (Tin Toy short), Underminer (The Incredibles), Violet (The Incredibles), WALL-E (WALL-E), XR (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), Yeti (Monsters, Inc.) and Emperor Zurg (...

Following a fundraiser at my daughter's school, I was impressed at the sheer number of magazines available, even with the "death of print." So I set up a little challenge for myself to see how quickly I could do up a "magazine alphabet". How many can you identify?

They are heroes in a half-shell... and all the letters of the alphabet. Depicted are: Ace Duck, Bebop, Chrome Dome, Donatello, Doctor El, Foot Soldier, General Traag, Hothead, Irma, Casey Jones, Krang, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Napoleon Bonafrog, April O'Neil, Pizzaface, Dr. Quease, Raphael, Shredder, Triceraton, Utrom, Vernon, Wingnut, Dr. X, Usagi Yojimbo, Zak the Neutrino

Exciting news: My Muppet Alphabet design has been turned into official Disney merchandise! Decorate your midsection and learn your Muppet Alphabet at  http://www.threadless.com/product/3361/Muppet_Alphabet Or, if prints and posters are more up your alley, be sure to visit Society6 .