cavemen for Emc thru Ffake

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."

interactive pitch

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.

Designs for Tivo print ads..rejected

Another job courtesy of Virgin popularity,thank you Virgin,always glad to draw this way,no research necessary.

Master Card Animatic for Chuck Gammage

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 camera moves. This is the animatic that was colored ,edited and composited by Chuck Gammage's talented crew.

Mascot Design for the Academy of Sciences

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 alligator suit to scare kids so I tried to make him look sweet or goofy.










This is the final design that went to the manufacturer after I reconfigured him to accommodate a human .His hands, feet and eyes got a little realistic.


But in the end cartoony won over and his eyes got bigger and his hands and feet got squishier.

More Virgin stuff

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 are my character designs that "made the cut".