Animax ID's
From deep in the vault...
yet another American client who wanted a Japanese look for Japanese clients but only wanted to work with an American production company .This time the client was Animax , a Japanese animation channel that needed I.D.'s .
The theme for this one was" pre-school/ romance".
The theme for this one was" pre-school/ romance".
This is one of my rejected girl designs, the flawless Osamu Tsuruyama ,our authentic Japanese "ringer ",ended up designing all the humans ,doing most of the layouts and animating a large portion of these ID's. 
My attempt at a Miyazki inspired creature design .
This rotating spaceship was hand animated by none other than that Smokin' genius ... J.Garrett Sheldrew .
The theme for this one was "grade-school /action"My robot monster.
....and "grade-school/ romance" .
microsoft for the web
This is a cut-down of some spots I directed for Microsoft Vista for the web .It was fun working on something that was supposed to look "Ye Olde ".The animation was done with puppeting through After Effects .
This is the character design style I was initially pushing for .
These are the round of roughs that proved to be the actual design direction.
SuperNike ,Friendship
Here is one of three Nike spots for Japan I directed, where the animated characters were supposed to look "manga" style not anime , hence the comic book speed lines and sound fx bubbles .The final character designs were by an authentic Japanese comic artist and the animation was done in Vancouver by Natterjack .For the live action portions I got a chance to direct some major leaguers , Ken Griffey Jr. and a couple of Japanese players .
This is the original drawing for the color. 
Hawaiian Flinstones
This was a prime time TV pilot with a proven writer, the brief was , "We want the Hawaiian Flinstones, but current, " So I designed this family with the lovable, dopey dad ,
The tolerant hardworking military mom .
The tolerant hardworking military mom .
The sarcastic, intelligent daughter and the obnoxious son.They said I took the Flinstones thing too literally .
After the design direction changed I was relegated to secondary characters like these horny sargeants and entitled tourists .
"Happy" Faux Music Video
This was a down time project at wildbrain that was originally intended to be a quick turn around CG piece that would show off a "down and dirty" style of CG that we normally didn't get considered for. We cobbled together a couple of Yo Gabba songs for the soundtrack and didn't fuss about the story too much since it was just supposed to be a "look" piece, not a short film. Later we added the forest animal flash sequence because the story was .... ahhh .... too minimal. I wrote, directed, story boarded and designed the characters. The wildbrain CG department did a great job of modeling, rigging, animating and lighting despite the fact they thought that it was weird and indulgent. Nick Hewitt art directed and made it pretty while Nathan Stephens went crazy with the AfterEffects lens flare action.
This was the original tiny concept art.
My character turn around.
My rough color studies, later redone and made fabulous by Nick Hewitt.
House Mite Character for Feature Pitch
I got a rare chance to work on some feature development at Wildbrain about a year or two ago . In between commercials I got about a week to to do some character designs of a heroic house mite with the personality of Paul Giamatti. The only other direction was that they would rather the character looked like a toy than an insect, since the world of CG insects had already been thoroughly explored.
This rough was selected from about eight different other versions of the hero .
This rough was selected from about eight different other versions of the hero .
A more detailed turn around .
His family.
Poses and attitudes .
Big Mo' Character
We were given an audio track of an obnoxious mortgage character that sounded like Ted Knight or John Goodman .
The client liked this character below but the pose was too threatening .
A less threatening pose.
The studio I worked at wouldn't even send this one , I'd like to think it was the nipples .
This was the winner .
They even modeled him in 3D , but alas they never made the commercial .
The client liked this character below but the pose was too threatening .
A less threatening pose.
The studio I worked at wouldn't even send this one , I'd like to think it was the nipples .
This was the winner .
They even modeled him in 3D , but alas they never made the commercial .
Empowered Female Character Designs
These are empowered cross training Nike customers .
These "powerful" characters were for Midol ,our female clients kept asking for more jewelry , more sassiness and more cleavage .
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