Sneak Preview

I just saw the completed preview video that we’ve been working on for the past week – it looks great!!! Here’s a sneak preview of a quick animation that I did for one of the sequences:

Designing the DVD Wrap…

A funny thing happened on this project… as you’ve seen, a lot of this video contains my illustration work and animation, to give it a unique visual style.
I found out the other day that by 10am (18 mins ago now) this DVD wrap needed to be finished and approved. Check. But in order to [...]

logo mockups…

What do you think? Which do you like?

Drawing pictures all day (ain’t all its cracked up to be!)

I only have a week to get all the illustrations and animations on my plate done, as well as develop a logo and design the DVD wrap for this upcoming training video. So I spend all day drawing these:
This first batch Jim said was too cartoony. I figured for a quick pan, we didnt want [...]

Wack-A-Brain!

Just wait until you see this animated… How fun! ;) (I had to figure out what a “Mary Jane” was… apparently, the boss wasn’t talking about Spiderman’s girlfriend… who knew?!)

Dry Erase Markers in Illustrator

I just wanted to say thanks again to Grant Friedman for these awesome dry-erase brushes for Illustrator… take a look at how this is going to play out. We’ll be animating the handwriting this week sometime.

Zip Zap Zop!!!

A while back, I posted my first sketches of this guy. Since then, I’ve been studying Christopher Hart’s “Cartoon Cool” book, and working the techniques there into my own style. I think these drawings are starting to look more and more like Mr. Sweeney… take a look at the progress…

This is where they really start [...]

Bizzy Bizzy

AIEEE! Full plate today. Finishing up my print ad for “Good Company”, designing the FiSH! web site, AND doing caricatures of John Sweeney. What do you think of this one?