Greg Bartlett

Been working on an article about how BG layout saves time/money, lets backgrounds be made in tighter schedules and results in better work in episodic pipelines where dozens, or even 100s of BGs need to be made weekly Keep an eye out for it in the next week or two probably!

Final Space background layout! #ThrowbackThursday This was my first time in a layout role and I moved interstate with just 4 days notice to work on it, slept on a friends couch for the first few weeks while being thrown right into the deep end. I learnt so much on this job!

One of the location concepts I did for Explosm's new series: America's Next Top Cryptid

America's Next Top Cryptid OUT NOW!! Thanks Explosm for bringing me on to do some early design work

2 things that first come to mind about if a background artist is worth hiring - another question I got over on IG

Do I think entry level animation industry jobs are becoming harder to find? (A question from over on IG)

Throwback Thursday to some of the work I did in 2020 for the Gavin James 'Boxes' music video by Studio Showoff

The rough, color thumb and final art I made for the rocket card in the card game Sandbag! 🚀

The 5 designs I illustrated for the card game Sandbag by Bezier Games back in 2023 but don't think I ever shared Each balloon color represents a different suit of cards in the game

A day late for Batman Day, but check out this photo of the Gotham City game board I illustrated for Enemies of Gotham City in action! (photo: hard2mastergames)

On my Smiling Friends season 2 & season 3 background tracking spreadsheets, I added an emoji next to each ep number. Can you guess which episode each one corresponds to? 👽🗽🧙🖨️⛄🍆🕰️🥚🍷🍦👰🎮📎💎🐸🌲🔮🎪

Hope you enjoyed last weeks new Smiling Friends episode! Shmaloogleville was the most fun I had on a key location design this season!

The forest key background I designed for Smiling Friends 'Pim and Charlie Save Mother Nature'

Happy Hazbin S2 episode 3&4 release! 3 was an exciting episode to work on as I jumped in to the role of background layout lead for the rest of the season!

Happy Hazbin Hotel season 2 release day!! Season 2 turned out so incredible - so glad I got to be a part of the background team.

SEASON 3 of SMILING FRIENDS premiered today 🥳 Excited to finally show off all the hard work from the background team

I'm taking questions over on instagram and we're off to a good start 😆

Been really quiet the last year and a half while layout leading and background supervising on some really huge things but it's all going to be coming out really soon 😱

FUCKKK I’M SO HYPED 😭 #hazbinhotel

Woohooo!!

Was meant to travelling to Adelaide this weekend to run my first marathon but I injured my knee two months ago and it didn't heal fast enough, so I had to cancel 😭 Melbourne marathon is later this year, so at least I get a second attempt right away at a 5 month training block

One of the very first things I designed on Smiling Friends S2! Here's an early version of the Insane Ground Breaking Games lobby design and color rough.

Hello #PortfolioDay ✨ I'm Greg, a background artist. Currently background supervising at Adult Swim. Some of my previous highlights include Smiling Friends, Hazbin Hotel, Final Space, Fallout, Koala Man, Helluva Boss and Animaniacs. 🎨 www.instagram.com/backgroundar... 🎨 backgroundart.net

Haven't had much work to share on social media lately but behind the scenes it's been non-stop busy background supervising on some big things, plus training for my first marathon and not much time for anything else.

Set a new half marathon personal best this morning 🥳 🏃‍♂️ 1:56:36!!! The last two I've done I'd just fallen short of my PB, and I recently took several weeks off running from an injury, so I didn't even think I'd be in PB shape for this one!

Can't believe this was a whole year ago!

💥 Heyo! We're looking for a PROP DESIGNER & CHARACTER DESIGNER to help us with 'Heathens', our indie animation series! Yes, this is PAID >:) so if you like anime and funni demons, please consider reading and applying via the info doc here! Deadline: 15TH JAN! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Just published my 2024 recap blog post. A LOT happened this year! Read on Newgrounds: zeedox.newgrounds.com/news/post/14... Read on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pulse/2024-r...

Would recommend any professional artist buy a second wacom pen as a backup. Would have been in a bit of trouble today if I hadn't 😃

Looking forward to 2025 as the year I run my first full marathon! I'll be running in the Adelaide Marathon in May, and then Melbourne Marathon in October.

Race day tomorrow, running my 4th half marathon. Particularly excited about this one since so many of my friends are also running, and I'm also by far the most fit I've been going into one, so could be a big personal best!

Lucky enough to snag an entry into the 2025 Melbourne Marathon this morning! Looking forward to training for my first full marathon

Going to be speaking to a class of students tomorrow, talking about my journey in the industry and doing a Q&A. Should be fun!

So many new followers today so it's a great time to reintroduce myself! I'm Greg, a background artist. I'm a background supervisor on Smiling Friends and a BG layout lead on Hazbin Hotel. 🎨 backgroundart.net 🆖 zeedox.newgrounds.com Background Art discord: discord.com/invite/PXTUC...

So many new followers today so it's a great time to reintroduce myself! I'm Greg, a background artist. I'm a background supervisor on Smiling Friends and a BG layout lead on Hazbin Hotel. 🎨 backgroundart.net 🆖 zeedox.newgrounds.com Background Art discord: discord.com/invite/PXTUC...

While background supervising on Smiling Friends S2 I painted a few reusable space assets for my artists to drag and drop into their backgrounds on the episode 'Charlie, Pim, and Bill vs. The Alien' 🌌