My latest animated MPC video!

Media Partners’ latest video full of my illustrations!

Intro Sequence v2

Here’s my lastest version of my 8 second intro for this new training video.
I’m going to add a few small dust clouds getting kicked up when the first 3 brains run by… otherwise, Jim loves it! Woo-hoo!
It’s no “Catch Me If You Can” intro, but that’s my dream… =) Your thoughts?
My boss told [...]

Illustration Friday: Pretend (2)

Here’s a fun children’s illustration, based on another segment of the video I’m currently illustrating…

Pirate Scene…

For this little bit, Sweeney is telling his story, floating in the middle of the sea. The 2 pirate ships come in from each side and cross pointy bow things. Then each pirate swings his arm down, one with sword, one with hook. Awesome!
As you can tell, since my last post, I’ve opted for [...]

Ahoy there, Fancy-Pants!!

Savvy geeks will regonize that as a reference to the awesome 90’s computer game from LucasArts, The Curse of Monkey Island… which just so happens to be a major inspiration for this segment of our video I’m drawing now, “an accurate depiction of Indian Ocean vs. Caribbean Piracy”. I’m even listening to MP3s from [...]

i draw pictures all day!

Doing all these drawings for this video is really teaching me a lesson in patience. The show is about 50% hand drawn illustrations and animation… My process goes like this:

I sketch out the drawing in pencil, usually on the back of a print-out to save paper.
I’ll go over the sketch on a piece of tracing [...]

I’m Sailing AAA-WAAAAYYY…

another animation

This one is the background, where John is speaking in front (on the right)…

The Ballad of Seamus O’Leary, 3rd Generation Copy Repair Person

“One dark and stormy night, Seamus gets a call at 3am. 3M corporation called, their copy machine is on the fritz. This thing was as big as a bus… but Seamus battled that copy machine through the night, and he beat that machine, he fixed it… but it being an Irish song, (sniff), Seamus lost [...]

Brain Balloons?!?

These brains are one of the main visual elements of this movie we’re working on. That being said, look at a little random silliness: