Voltron Love

Look at these. Look. At. Them. THESE ARE FANTASTIC. HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THESE. Who on this planet was so blessed by the hands of fate that they got to make something so obnoxiously fun?











Even the live action is fun. Campaigns need to be more engaging like this again, maybe TV would be a little more appealing to me...

Dinosaurs!

Ok, since it's been terribly long since my last post - and I would really like to get back into posting more soon - I'm going to get this over with and share some dinosaurs!

These guys here were designs for a Lucky Charms spot.



And the bust maquette I made for finalizing the look (the dinosaur was CG in the final spot)


And here we have more dinos! This time for a Trix Yogurt spot that was for a stop-motion puppet!


Here's the mock-up maquette for the final puppet...

And the construction for the actual puppet...


...almost done...




...Ta-Daaa!


And in her final glory:


All done here at Calabash Animation!

Some Designs and Sharing Stuff

So I haven't had much of a chance to share work I've been doing for, ohhhh the past YEAR for my job! Just didn't really get motivated to compile a good little collection. And since most of these spots have aired for quite some time, I'm assuming they've run their course enough for me to share some behind the scenes of a few elements.

My biggest and most enjoyable position so far has been character design and color work. Color used to be my kryptonite funny enough, when I was younger, but I've beaten my weakness to a pulp over the years and now love working with it.

All of this artwork in this post are for just a few General Mills spots I've worked on so far.


I really loved this first design here:


This was the final:

I had to paint a doll concept as quick as I humanly could, and she came out super cute!

I love painting mock-ups for scenes to help set the environment. My painting skills in Photoshop are getting faster and faster:


I even got to paint (a ton!) of backgrounds for a series of Trix web shorts. Though since I was still new at it and doing so on a mass scale, I soon found out I was way in over my head and had to bring in extra help!


Which designs do you recognize? See any on TV recently?

Next post will have...DINOSAURS!