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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".

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 .

The theme of this one was "pre- school /action".

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 .

Frito's Character Design

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 .

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 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 .