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On a desk in a Santa Rosa office sits a red and gold box measuring 108 cm.
These are the nibs used by Charles Sparky Schulz to draw over 17,000Peanutscomic strips.
As Braddock tells it, theres nothing quite like them.
What makes them unique?
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Getting closest to Sparkys line isnt only Braddocks goal.
remembersThe Peanuts Moviedirector Steve Martino.
That Charlie Brown head is one continuous pen-strokeit is so hard to get it right!
Martino isnt the only Blue Sky artist to have had an early introduction to drawing the Peanuts gang.
Bruno is able to go one further.
Looking back, it was a Peanuts-branded toy that sparked his early interest in animation.
That was the first time I realized,its just drawings!
How did they go about it?
While that was happening, even more research was going on to design the movies characters.
I think that sort of scared everybody into being like Im not going to mess this up!
All of this research was put to use in the creation of hero character models.
With the subheading perhaps, make it wobbly.
Its about having that little bit of connection to the pen-line, always.
Craig Schulz tells us, Weve put in little pieces from the Christmas Special, the Halloween Special… Something else to keep an eye out for is a 2D sequence animated by Blue Skys BJ Crawford.
For inspiration, Crawford revisited Bill MelendezsPeanutsTV specials, frame by frame.
I was studying every single movement, like wheres his foot-placement in this?
Its a matter of stewardship and not authorship, as Braddock sees it.
Blue Skys BJ Crawford couldnt agree more.
Far from being creatively frustrating, its a rich learning experience, as Crawford explains.
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