Sake Commercial

This is a commercial I directed for the mighty Special Agent Productions for a dream Japanese client.This was great fun and I am eternally grateful to the talented Mike Overbeck and Tim Blair for the terrific character and effects animation.My brother did the music and I did the boards,the layouts and the design.This job had a small budget and a generous schedule and there is no one to blame for the weird story but me.

Hubert's Brain

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 size.

Coke Citra - Bull

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.

Coke Citra - Ninja

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 head.

my rejected hero design

my good guys designstoryboards

I AM WEASEL TV Boards

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 .

crocodiles and monkeys for Laika

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.