Development Roughs

We had a short lived development sprint on a now "cold" project that may never see the light of day. So, here are some roughs I did for the show concept. It had potential.......maybe it will get dusted of later, and revisited. Have a look.






It definitely needed a lot more work. The show was intended to be CGI and On a small budget, so that limited the style quite a bit.

Ode To Ragnar

I was talking with a friend who showed me the Art Of Big City book by Brandon Ragnar Johnson. I love his stuff....amazing design! So I took one of his more graphic designs of an alien ( I think) and tried to make it more 3 dimensional without losing the graphic nature of the original. I think it worked out okay.

Just to make it clear, this design is NOT mine......I just adapted it a bit. I wish it was mine but alas, the top left little illustration is Ragnar's original. I hope he doesn't mind.

Board Revisions For Bolts&Blip Show

Here are some recent examples of some revisions I was asked to do on show 25. Panels for scenes 460, 461 and 465 are from the original board artist. The rest are the revision panels I did.
It's not exceptional but since there are no examples in this Blog of my story boarding capabilities, I thought that it'ld be a good idea to show something.....anything.
I put these together using Photoshop. Probably not the best piece of software for that particular task. It worked out though. I'm going to include another shorter sequence in a new post. Thank you for having a look.

Monstroville Project

Here's a clean location design I recently finished for a side project called Monstroville. It's being done by O Neal Pignani (A.K.A. Viktor Von Kreep) and host of other talented people. You can check out the blog.... Monstroville !

There will be more to come in the next few months. It gives me a chance to get back to a more graphic style of design.

More From Bolts & Blip

I've been hard at work, getting through this show. Here are some recent designs for locations and props. They look a little slicker now because I've started to scan and assemble my drawings in Photoshop. Have a look...........




This show should be coming to an end soon. I hope to get back to more "cartoony" stuff.

CGI Blip Project - 3D Animation

It's been a long time since I've posted anything. For the past 6 months or so I've been involved with a CGI project. It's been a lot of hard work and continues to be challenging. I've been designing in pencil, which get scanned and given to the modelers. Have a look at some of the designs............





Wow, is 3D hard to design for. Almost everything I draw has to be done in multiple angles with details to aid in the modeling. I would say in my limited experience with CGI production, that it's three times the work as a regular 2D show. We'll see if I survive the project.

Yin Yang Yo - Season 2 Layout/Design

Here are a few examples of my work on the episodes. The drawings get painted and vectorized so that you can zoom right in to an area. It's the only way we can get the show done under the schedule we have. Have a look..................






We have only recently surpassed the half way point in the 39 half-hour spots , each containing two 11 minute episodes. It's a lot of work!!!