Gastro the Snail Cartoon

“Gastro the Snail” was my first venture into animation/video/digital art. I had a vision of an adult cartoon (think late night Comedy Central or Adult Swim) involving an alcoholic, crude, anti-hero snail with a lot of personal baggage. He tries to live on the fringes of society, but keeps being pulled back into the world he so desperately wants to avoid.

The project spanned over 3 years and taught me so much! It was written and created in the hopes of me creating a much larger series with spin offs, but it proved to be way too much work for one person. I would not recommend watching the show unless you enjoy crude humor and poorly made cartoons! All 5 episodes are available on YouTube.

Here are some stills, GIFs, posters, and character portraits.

Gastro Movie Poster 1
Baby Caterpillar - reverse
Gastro the Snail - Episode 4.00_04_13_03.Still010
Gastro side
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Gastro the Snail - Episode 4.00_05_01_10.Still009
Gatro Episode 4 Poster 2
Street at Night - ESTABLISHING and WIDE
Angry Mob
bad tattoo headshot
aphid headshot
baby caterpillar headshot
blood cult guy headshot
butterfly headshot
beetles in blue headshot
copcar headshot
Character Design
earthworm headshot
Gastro headshot
fly headshot
gastro's wife headshot
gimphur headshot
cult group headshot
grubby the grub headshot
mayor headshot
grasshopper general headshot
male mantis headshot
misc angry mob guys
Petoras Headshot
other snail headshot
pincher bug headshot
old dragonfly headshot
Pilli headshot
snails and slug headshot
willy's brother headshot
willy the wasp bully headshot
shopkeeper headshot
poop cone salesman headshot
the slug headshot
stinky mcgee headshot
stickbug waiter headshot
Ted headshot
the roaches headshots
space-painting-idk