The Cuphead Show!

The Cuphead Show is a Netflix adaptation of Studio MDHR’s award winning video game “Cuphead”. Drawing heavy inspiration from Max Fleischer animations of the 1930s, the video game famously features hand-drawn rubber hose animation, watercolour backgrounds and a jazz and ragtime soundtrack.

The show adopted the same classic art direction and follows the adventures of brothers Cuphead and Mugman around the world of the Inkwell Isles, through forests, graveyards and carnivals. All the while dodging the Devil, who’s hellbent on Cuphead’s soul…

I was lucky enough to work on the initial studio test for Cuphead and later to paint backgrounds for most of the episodes.