As action-figures go, the Minions are already pretty big. Most Minions at Work cartoons are shot on a bench-top that’s about two and a half by four feet (and the earliest ones were done in less than half that space!).[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This cartoon features some of my favorite props. The traffic cones are from a line of “Power Team World Peacekeepers” police figures from many years back. In the U.S. these were only sold at Big Lots stores, and the sets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Though I’ve been using it mainly to repost classic “Minions at Work” panels, the purpose of this site is to ramp up to a reboot of the comic in a new, multi-panel form. I’d hoped to have that going by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another outdoor cartoon, with my front walk once again standing in for a paved road. Yes, I reused this shot a lot, but I really liked it, and I just kept coming up with punch lines.
One of the more satisfying moments in the early spy movies was when the hero blew up the villain’s secret lair and some random henchman would get blown off a ledge or catwalk and fly to the air to their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back to the bar. (Warning, possibly useful photo-editing geekery ahead) I’ve used this shot in other cartoons, but it looks a lot different here. It’s because of a photo-editing technique I used on a lot of later Minions at Work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I was just so happy with this little set that I had to pat myself on the back. Lots of nicely textured details here, nice color, mostly dollar store and thrift store junk. The globe in the foreground is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My brother and I long ago came up with what we called “the Cylon School of Marksmanship” to describe the targeting abilities of henchmen, flunkies, invading aliens, and other groups of interchangeable baddies. It was inspired by the classic 1970s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sitting right next to my computer here I have a copy of “Kickin’ Bot,” former Mythbuster Grant Imahara’s book on building combat robots. Not that I’ve ever BUILT a combat robot, or that I ever intend to, but hey, sometimes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like I said, Tyrannosaurs are funny. I like the sports gear in this setup (The Minions have an employee gym? Who knew?), and those hand weights are hysterical, but I’m bothered by the position of the T-Rex, which is actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…