Steven Sugar
Background artist on Cartoon Network's upcoming Steven Universe and Frederator's Bravest Warriors webseries. Also making comics and games and stuff! Every chair is a couch if you've got the right attitude about it.
Experimenting with level design for Magbot, now with animation! The full size mockup is here!
There are also some more background concepts posted on the Magbot Development Blog.
A new Magbot design!
And a new post on the Development Blog about it, and the designs that led to it.
Watch the first episode of Bravest Warriors, “Time Slime” premiering exclusively on YouTube
Created by Pendleton Ward, the mind behind Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, and directed by Breehn Burns, Co-Creator of Dr. Tran, Bravest Warriors follows 4 teenaged heroes-for-hire as they warp through galaxies to save adorable aliens and their worlds using the power of their emotions.
“Time Slime”
…or be forever stuck in a time loop! With their parents gone, the Bravest Warriors must step up. Wallow connects with a love from his past and the Bravest Warriors must save Glendale, or be forever stuck in a time loop!Subscribe now to Cartoon Hangover to catch all the new Bravest Warriors episodes airing every Thursday, exclusively on YouTube.
Submit any and all fan art from today’s episode right here!
Hey, Bravest Warriors is out now!
I did backgrounds for this!
Some more recent stuff – Dessert World!
Some forest illustrations for a project I’m finishing up on!
Meet Steven Sugar!
Er, well his backgrounds anyway. We’re thrilled with the amazing backgrounds that Steven has been crafting for Bravest Warriors. Take a moment to gaze at these beauties and admire these works of art!
Alright, alright that’s enough gazing. Let’s learns a little more about Steven:
I just graduated last Spring from the Illustration department at the Rhode Island School of Design and moved over to LA for work. Bravest Warriors is the first cartoon I’ve worked on and the first time I’ve done background design for animation!
Before all this I’ve done art for a couple video games at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and a handful of self-published comics.
As far as my approach to Bravest Warriors, there’s been a lot of emphasis on worldbuilding. Like defining the style of holograms and the aesthetic of the Bravest Warrior’s tech. I grew up drawing Star Wars ships, so creating ship designs for Bravest feels like I’ve come full circle.
Star Wars has been a big influence for me with all these backgrounds, there’s even a few Ralph McQuarrie pieces among our reference material. Naturally Adventure Time has had some impact on the look of the show, but we’ve also been looking at Blade Runner, Akira and some of Syd Mead’s concept work!
Working with (showrunner) Breehn Burns has been great, especially since I was so green when I began. Breehn, Christy Beckert and the rest of the crew have all been an incredible help in learning how to design the locations for the show!
Aww we popped Steven’s animated cherry! Don’t worry, we were gentle. Be sure to follow Steven on Tumblr to see more of his great work.
-Mike
Thing about Bravest Warriors backgrounds!
How would you guys feel about me having a show on Cartoon Network? Good I hope!!!
It’s going to be awesome!!
Also I’m doing backgrounds for it!
