SCOOBY-DOO AND THE CYBER CHASE: Giant 5' Long Coloring Page Mini Mock-Up From 2000!

A small treasure from 2000 in my archive! 

I worked on a LARGE 8-page pull-out coloring banner/poster that unfolded and stretched 5 FEET! It was a tie-in for the Scooby-Doo And The Cyber Chase animated film which came out in 2001. This was done all by hand and I did a mini mock-up to get the scale and layout down. It was much easier working smaller! Each character was separate and I cut and pasted/Scotch taped it all together to get a sense if it would work. We've come a LONG way! 

I didn't have my first Photoshop class (using PS 6.0) until Spring of 2001, so this was kicking it real OLD SCHOOL on my end. Once it was approved, I must have upscaled it on a copy machine at Staples, then light-boxed it and inked the final art on 3 or 4 separate pieces on good art paper. Someone at Golden Books took the final art and scanned it and then stitched it together digitally for the designer. I'm trying to recall as it was 25 years ago! We were still using Quark as a layout program.

One side was a giant coloring page with all the monsters (pictured above) and the other side was a single, GIANT maze that ran from end to end with different styles of mazes and graphics to recreate parts of the film. One of the MOST CREATIVE and FUN things I've ever worked on. They don't even do this kind of cool stuff today! 

UPDATE! I found an extra copy of the book in my archives where I had taken the staples out to free up the banner, so my other "Gem Mint 10" copies will stay as is. It came with a stickers insert page like the Alien Invaders book I did.

Been a LONG time since I looked at the final version! I took some pics of the printed version with my original rough mock-up so you can get an idea of the scale I was working at in planning it out. 

 

 

Looking at the maze side of the banner (which I didn't take any pics of), I can see two scenarios I drew but didn't happen in the actual film as we were working with the early version of things and I'm guessing it was too late to fix things. 

 

One had the Gang on a pirate ship with the threat of a giant shark, and the next scenario was Daphne and Velma as princesses who were trapped in a castle. That's all I can gather from looking at it. I don't think the film had those but it's been a long time since I've seen it. It was approved by WB so I'm guessing they had no issues with it and we needed to get it done. 

 

Looking back on it all, I can certainly see some tweaks and changes I would make if I had to do it again. This was before I learned how to do certain aspects digitally and I would tighten up the design, but overall I'm still happy with it!