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!!!

The Ripping Friends - Part 1

I left a design job to work on this show. John Kricfalusi's "The Ripping Friends" was a promising project and I was ready for a change of venue. So off to the Red Rover Studio I went. It was also being directed by a good friend of mine, Riccardo Durante. I always enjoy working with Rick.

Here are a few poses I did for a layout. These guys weren't easy to draw. John made it look easy. His poses of the characters were unbelievably awesome. This was my attempt at Crag.....

This was a prop for a show called Frictor. I liked this episode a lot.

This was a graphic for the box lid, the above machine came in. I used an old 50's toy box lid as reference ,.......if it looks familiar.

The rough layout below was the building housing the sewing room, which of course was filled with huge, impossibly complex machines. I designed the interior as well.

Here's an example of how I like to work. I do a rough thumbnail and blow it up on the photo-copier. Then I work out some of the issues that need to be resolved in the thumbnail to create a rough layout. I was doing the designs for these locations in the layout stage so the establishing shots, and various complicated interiors were handled by me.


I'm going to down load some more artwork from the show later on. This show was a lot of hard work but fun and it forced me to draw in a style I hadn't done before. I always like to push myself out of my comfort zone. It's usually when I can do my best work.

Jim Henson's Dog City - Layouts

I dusted some old layouts off from the second series I ever worked on. I think these were from the second season. It had a unique style......, though way too much detail every where. These represent the only examples I have of my work on the show. Boy it takes me back.


Unfortunately, all the details would get painted out. The backgrounds were painted at an over seas studio. I'm assuming they were pressed for time and money. Oh well, not like any one remembers the show now. I worked with a lot of great people on this project.