tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82369982469650830432011-11-13T11:37:16.678-08:00Online portfolio of storyboards, animation-design, and direction.Gordon P. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13646851566020234294noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8236998246965083043.post-40654519871417327912011-11-13T11:06:00.000-08:002011-11-13T11:30:15.373-08:00

Here are some" first pass ","realistic" but caricaturized monkeys and crocodile designs for an unnamed commercial stop motion project for my pals up at Laika.My brief was brief, - the monkey is a bartender and the crocodile is the customer.

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These are some rejected cave spokesperson designs for a character that was supposed to inform employees of the EMC corp. on the benefits and pitfalls of social networks.The winning design ended up looking a lot more "evolved than these fine gentlemen."

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These are some variations on a key frame I banged out during a recent pitch for an interactive installation that involved an unnamed financial institution.This is the motion test that the impeccable David Brandt did in about 8 hours just from the drawings in my key frame.

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Here is some more "process".First I was given a script and asked to do some character designs by the amazing Chuck Gammage for a low budget Master Card agency pitch .Then the agency picked a design and I did boards for an animatic.This is a sample of the rough boards for the spot that no one usually sees.Here is a sample of the finished boards that were broken down into pieces to accommodate

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This is my most "high profile" job, simply because of the captive audience. I conceived, directed, storyboarded, character designed (about half of the characters), and with a lucky break, did the voice over narration. Finished in spring '07, great clients, great agency (Anomaly), a reasonable schedule, and a production crew of geniuses at wildbrain.

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I was honored to be considered to do a job for a place I have always admired The San Francisco Academy of Sciences.I was brought up visiting their aquarium,planetarium and alligators .So it was a great thrill to be asked to do some designs for a mascot suit based on their "star",Claude the albino alligator.These are a select few of initial ruff designs ,they didn't want the six foot something

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Here are my first two stabs at design for the Virgin America Safety Video these key frames were all my "handy work" but eventually ,as I had always wanted ,the character design became a collaboration and combination of Nick Hewitt , Mike Overbeck's and my own.We wanted inconsistency in character design ,we wanted them to look like naive doodles. These

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Here is a sample of my boards for the prologue sequence of the feature Cat Tale for Imagi .I had the extreme honor of working under the direction of the genius that is Dave Feiss.This sequence was all voice over with sight gags ,I will post some dialog sequences in the near future.er

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Timecrimes,a.k.a. Los cronocrimienes -great Spanish /suspense /time travel movie.Full of shame,guilt and remorse.If you are ever considering entering a time machine ,PLEASE watch this movie first.These are quick ruffs I drew while watching this fantastic movie alone.

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This was an in house 17 min. CG short directed by the mighty Phil Robinson in 2001. It was quite an ambitious endeavor for plucky little wild brain and a terrific experience for me. I got to write the first beat sheet and later some dialog, I was the co - director, art director and one of the storyboard artists. The first drawings of Hubert.For some reason everybody boarded at thumbnail

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This is a storyboard test I did recently, the only instructions were that it was to have two characters that annoy each other in a waiting room .I found this child's space helmet in a thrift store about a million years ago, and if you squeeze it in the middle,it can accommodate even my enormous melon.

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I love drawing things on wheels I just don't get hired to do it very often.These were some "home made "looking rocket cars I designed for a pitch for an educational TV show associated with the exploratorium kid's museum in Frisco.A Winnebago/hide-out for a TV pitch about extreme-skatboarding-zombie-kid-rockstars with a pirate TV station. This is my only line drawing of a personal favorite.This is

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Here are some board-o-matics for the Ironman 2 video game for Secret Level that I boarded ,edited on after effects, and did the fabulous scratch track for.It was fun ,I hadn't played "army men "in years.

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This was a series of key frames I did for the kind people of Bonfire,it was for a pitch for an instructional film with a scientist spokesperson in the style of my virgin video(sort of) for an unnamed sound laboratory.I enjoy working in this unfinished goofy style,no clean-up necessary,unfortunately we did not get this one.

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Here is a design pitch I had to turn around quickly for yet another cut -out style /after fx job.It was for an unamed sandwich chain for my pal Paul at Ffake. First I got my pose.(when you design for cut-out no one ever needs to see your drawing.) Then I frantically "acquired "images. Here is what I sent ,the clients liked it but it

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This was a character background design job I recently enjoyed doing for a groovy local agency called Butler,Shine,Stern and Partners for a Radio Shack commercial.The job was "puppet style" animation in after fx with an etching look for the design. These are the first drawings I did for the chemist character.The character became this guy,although his hands were too cartoony and later refined .This

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I had the extreme privilege and honor to be able to work on THE Dave Feiss's I AM WEASEL , the 7 minute companion show to Dave's COW AND CHICKEN show .The premise of this episode was that Weasel must save a town from the over powering stink of some pet pigs owned by his nemesis, I. R. Baboon .

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This was for google ,we cut out these drawings and shot them with my tiny camera and I cleaned it up and colored it in photoshop , very simple . Not Google material . For Mattel , their character design , my painting .

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This is a campaign I worked on for about three years for the Honda Element.We tested for this job early on , in fact it came in as a bid for a local commercial ,went away for a year and then miraculously came back as a series of national spots.The agency came to us with a couple of pieces of art and some scripts.At first the scripts seemed pretty minimal ,too dry even, but then we realized it

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This is a favorite rejected character that I designed for a commercial this year that was supposed to be modern but feel a bit Hanna Barbera or School House Rock.In other words they were to look like low budget Saturday morning designs from the 1960's to the 1980's but not retro.I started obsessing on the color styling and, not wanting to fall into my old color habits I decided to "borrow" from

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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". This is one of my rejected girl designs, the

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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.

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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

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This was a TV commercial we did for Mexican clients (who were the best clients EVER). They just wanted to cram in as many gags as 30 seconds would allow. I also got to work with the great Dave Feiss who animated almost the entire spot (one scene by the also great Dave Vandervoort) and designed the ninjas and the hero's body. I directed, storyboarded and designed the good guys and the hero's

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We were asked to do a design round for a sassy female doll -like Frito spokesperson.This was my color version with a BAD package photo.This is the original drawing for the color. A "Something about Mary" Frito hairdo .

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Another Coke Citra commercial for my favorite Mexican clients. Dave Feiss animated the majority of the spot and designed the bull. I directed, story boarded and designed the humans.

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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 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

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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

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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

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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 .

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This was one of my favorite commercials from way back in my Colossal days. Japanese dream clients plus a "jungle" sound track what could be better. I directed, boarded and designed this spot.

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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 .This a rough and a not quite cleaned-up version, of an empowered domestic engineer spokesperson for some forgotten pharmaceutical product .

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These characters were designed to be the girlfriend of a certain bee cereal spokesman .

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These characters were designed for some spots and package art that would advertise a French- baby gum -numbing ointment .

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This is a Chicago Transit Authority ad that I directed and storyboarded. It was designed by Carlos Aponte. I never understood the groundhog they made me put in the boards.

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This was a rare opportunity for those of us at Wildbrain to work on the fabulous Yo Gabba Gabba show. We made a Story Time sequence which they gave us a script and a track for. I directed, storyboarded, and character designed (except for the cat by Sarah Forrester) this spot. I also did these very simple background designs. It was a pleasure to work on something with gentle timing for once

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It was nice to work on a dialog driven commercial even if the dialog was repetitive. I directed, storyboarded and did the character design on this spot.

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This was a test for a pitch for an oatmeal commercial , conceived by a very funny agency . We turned this around in about 24 hours. I story boarded, picked the very familiar scratch track and scanned the oats.Mike Overbeck animated this in about 8 hours on Photoshop 3's animation plug-in that he had never used before . WARNING ; to all you delicate flowers out there, this piece has swearing in

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These are some samples of live action boards. The fun emporium was a from a script for a spec piece about a horrible cab ride in NYC. This board was for a scary P.S.A about spousal abuse that would eventually get roto'ed by hand. This is the introduction to a 5 minute industrial for Sun that was going to use a bunch of stock footage. This is the first half of a Target ad that was going to be

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Here are a couple of groups of character designs I did for two different pre -school shows. This was a "shrimp man", a goofy un- scary sea monster who needed to be schooled .These are some takes on some goofy un- scary dragons .This is the rough approved dragon , less graphic more structure .

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Ahhh Cap'n Crunch - 4 years - 18 commercials only to be killed by obesity studies.I always under boarded the live action (I didn't direct the live action, so it was just a place holder for me) and I over boarded the animation (the clients wanted choices for their over-the-top-cartoony-athletic-kid-action-stuff on ya). Message In A Bottle My crab designs for our only CG character in the

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