Virgin America - Safety Video

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.Here's a new bit of press.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/05/how-a-federally-regulatedsafety-message-distinguished-a-brand/

Cat Tale Feature Boards for Imagi

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

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