Inspired by Talia Ellis

Talia Ellis

Storyboard Artist 2D Animator

Character Designer Illustrator

Introduction

I discovered Talia’s work on the YouTube comedy channel, Tobuscus. Talia leads a team of animaters that have created three animated music videos AND gVE 6OBUSCUS $DVENTURES that combined have had nearly 60 million views.

For the Tobuscus animated videos, I understand the process is that Toby Turner (aka Tobuscus) writes the song or episode, records the music or voiceover then passes onto Talia to hear for her

create the storyboards and work with the animation team and Toby to produce the gNAL PRODUCT I selected Talia as the artist to study because I enjoy the animated series and I wanted to learn the ability to draw people in a cartoon style. These characters are based on real people, Toby Turner and Gabe Hohreiter and I admire how she caputures their personalities, features and jestures, similar to how they are in real life.

Biography

Talia studied Sequential Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2007.

Talia worked in Caricature Art for Richmond Illustrations before moving to Los Angeles where she studied Storyboarding under director Jay Oliva.

She’s worked with such companies as Film Roman, the Hub and Frederator. Talia is now the Director of Animation for Tobuscus Studios in Los Angeles. http://taliaellis.com

Storyboarding

Character  Design

Animation

Get Bloody is a 3 minute music video parody of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky song based on Happy Wheels, a game played on Toby’s “Toby Games” YouTube channel.

Happy wheels is a game where you take characters through various challenging user created courses

and when unsuccessful things “get bloody”.

Lyrics written by Toby Turner and animation directed by Talia Ellis with her team Stephanie Throssell, Britta Souhrada & Ketzi Rivera..

The Tobuscus Adventures - Zombie Apocalypse episode was created as a launch for the Indiegogo (crowd fundrasing) campaign to raise funds for the Tobuscus Adventures game that’s currently in development. It will contain animated sequences during the game.

Tobuscus Adventures generally

begins with Tobuscus proclaiming that he’s “bored” to his friend Gabuscus. Tobuscus attempts to warn Gabe of the zombies outside is ignored. Gabe discoveres the zombies and proceeds to gGHT THEM OFF 'URING THE CHAOSc Tobuscus starts an Indiegogo campaign to encourage Gabe and HIS DOG *RYPHON TO gGHT OFF THE zombies.

In this 3 minute animation, Tobuscus forces his assistance onto “Tim Tim” to write a viral song. Tobuscus sings about previous viral YouTube videos and suggests the catchy yet educational phrase “Did you know that cashews come

from a fruit”.

The lyrics were written by Toby Turner and animated under Talia’s direction with Stephanie Throssell, Ketzi Rivera, Chelsea Hemphill snd Britta Souhrada..

Illustration

Talia has a Tumblr page called Sketch-A-Day Challenge. Over the past two years she uploads a sketch, either rough OR gNISHEDc NEARLY EVERY DAY The current premise of this project is to draw a selfportrait every day of how she THINKS she looked based on how she FEELS.