Vehicle Design

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 my finished photoshoppette of one of the coolest compact's ever, a 1967 Subaru.

Sound Lab Pitch

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.

Design for Cut-Out Animation

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 never happened ,mmmmm horse sandwich with cowboy condiment.

radio shack "chemist"

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 was the chemists background I designed,at this point everything was approved so I made replacement hand and face poses and the spot was animated .

Then somebody decided the spot looked too tame so it was literally "back to the drawing board "I was directed to reference Einstein ,Walter Matthau and Christopher Lloyd.

Einstein won but his hair and beard had to be crazied up.I drew all the stuff in this spot except the smoke ,the hamsters and their bycicles.

This post explosion cat didn't make the cut .

Various Character Designs

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 .

An original show idea .

A big footed super model .

A poster for my daughter .

A motion - capture character , where one person was going to sit on the others shoulders .

All three of these characters are for an animated show with a lot of " adult " content .

A 50's style character for a web cartoon .

A weazley gangster for a crime short .

Gil the Honda Crab and some of his pals

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 was about timing and in particular, awkward pauses .So we wracked our brains for a film or TV show that would have an appropriate dialog style for a scratch track .It was my pal Nathan that came up with "Chuck and Buck",a film with truly squirm-worthy dialog and timing.That scratch track along with an appropriatly quirky bit of after -fx puppetry of a donkey and an element ,by my pal Erica,landed us the campaign.
Believe it or not each of these spots was boarded and timed out first .They might appear to be radio plays with cut out photos but we actually did work hard to push the timing to support the very well written scripts.

This was from their "urban" campaign , there was some nervousness about the sneakers on the
wire and gang implications.