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Yearly Archives: 2006

A Happy Day – Volume 1

Posted: August 13, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: A Happy Day, Comics

These are panels from the first comic book that I ever made! I was visiting some friends in San Francisco, and the APE was happening, so I stopped by the copy shop on my way there to make some comic books so that I wouldn’t be attending the show empty-handed.

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The Feral Kids

Posted: July 26, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Feral Kids, Animation

In 2006, I put a pitch together about some kids who wandered off into the woods and went feral.

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Robot Dance Party

Posted: April 6, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Animation, Robot Dance Party

I made this cartoon with my brother Fran Krause over the course of a weekend. It won an award at the ASIFA animation festival for the sound.

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Blue’s Room – Miscellaneous Props

Posted: March 9, 2006-Likes: 1-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Blue's Room

Magic wands, clay pots, and other odds and ends from Blue’s Room.

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Superjail – Pilot Episode

Posted: December 31, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Superjail!-Tags: willkrause, flash, Superjail!

My favorite part of working on the pilot for Superjail was when Christy took my suggestion that the dead monkey should have broken glass stuck in it after bouncing off a table-full of broken glass.

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Blue’s Room – Miniature Props

Posted: March 10, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Blue's Room-Tags: miniature, Props, willkrause

For the show's introduction, we needed some dollhouse-sized props for a tiny set. These props are all about 2 or 3 inches in size. It was fun to use some music wire for the guitar's frets!

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Blue’s Room – Critters

Posted: March 10, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Blue's Room-Tags: critters, Blue's Room, foam

I learned to love polystyrene foam on this project. Sure, static electricity leads to annoying dust everywhere, but it is incredibly easy to sculpt to a smooth, kinda durable finish. Plus I got to use pipe cleaners & construction paper!

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Blue’s Room – Drawings

Posted: March 9, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Blue's Room Illustrations, Blue's Room-Tags: Props, drawings, crayons

When I was working on Blue's Room, some days I'd be doing nothing but coloring pictures for twelve hours a day. The set was dressed with new drawings for episode, so many drawings were needed. Some were tacked to the walls, and others were placed into polystyrene foams. I developed a fondness for "Stabilotones" in [...]

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