Wrapping it all up...

So here are all the characters for this year's Holiday card in their full, laid-out glory.

Now, free X-Mas card to the first person that guesses the inside line correctly.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor pounds of X-Mas cards...

A truly angry elf!

Can't have the good without...

Warm smile from a cold guy

No lab band needed here...

Bringing a Tiny Bit of Life to Tim

When you positively, absolutely have to design the UPS Man

A few steps to baking a Gingerbread Man

Bringing a ghost to life...

Ah, THAT time again. Luckily this X-Mas season will bring me LOTS of characters...

Finally - they're here!

Books, books, books! It's been a long-time coming, but the books for McDonald's are finally here (and here)!  And while the initial character designs changed a bit to the animation then to these pages I was thrilled to work on getting these spots on the air. To quote Tom Hanks, "I need to get to a library, fast!"

A bit on the painter steps to this one

The Hills Are (more) Alive

A little on the Hunchback development

A rough scene from the story

I've framed out a sequence, and this is just one I did to get it on paper...here we see his partner in crime, a bucket-wielding hunchback (someone that has been with him forever).

Executioner Turnarounds Tie-Down

Executioner Tie-Downs

Nailing some facial expressions down to a final as well as a couple more hero poses

Tighter on the hero pose

Adding a bit more life to my Death-Maker

Expressions Sheet

After seeing Tim Burton's show at MoMa, NYC not too long ago, I have so much respect for his creative process. Here is a page from his book, "Tim Burton's The nightmare Before Christmas - The Film, The Art, The Vision." I was attempting to do an expressions sheet of my new character for this CGMA class, and this page lives comfortably in my cobweb-filled memory for reference!