Moonicks Character designs

After looking at a bunch of Gary Larson cartoons I think I was able to hone in on what would make up a Far Side beatnik cow...

Cow Poetry (Moonicks?)

I have a new project to work on for my digital cinema class, animating a poem and incorporating text into the animation. A good friend suggested using the Cow Poetry cartoon from Garey Larson's Far Side, which is totally awesome.

Here's the original comic strip:
So my take is to make it a beat nick hippie session with ultra cool cows (or maybe not that cool). Here's my thumbnails I made to sketch out my idea:








Watch out, the hippie cows will be running amok in an animated cartoon coming soon.