The Pet

This is a story about a monster boy, who lives in a monster house, who takes his monster pet out for its first (monstrous) walk…

https://youtu.be/ZZsBT1Bbatc

Some fun stills below...

March Madness on The Crazy Ones

In no real order of appearance, here're a number of things I helped design for last night's The Crazy Ones. The episode can be seen there too. From lady razors to shamrock parade floats - ah, the days of advertising I so miss!

More Crazy Art Direction

On the last Crazy One's I was asked to help with a fun print ad that was in a competition amongst an ad done by Simon (Robin's character) and a techy co-worker. The tech guy's ad had the Millennium Falcon hidden in the ice sculpture along with some other hidden elements. The story art that came in later had to look as if it were done by Robin's temporary cell-mate over a night in jail...

Never Sucks

Thumbnails from an existing movie...

Fun assignment from Steve MacLeod's Storyboarding class: Thumbnails, from a movie.  My favorite? Obvious. My favorite scene? Here.

Something Fishy

Late for class

Here are a couple more for the classes I'm taking. With the character design it was medieval knights in good, silhouettes from simple shapes and gag cartoons from the storyboarding class.

More from class

I have a couple classes going now with one in Character Design by Nate Wragg and another in Storyboard Art from Steven MacLeod. Below are a couple submissions from each.  The assignments being a medieval knight in a nice, silhouetted pose based on a simple shape, and the other a gag cartoon.

The Pet

This bit of Story Art came about once we put a tadpole tank together in our daughter's room.  I got to thinking, what if there were a Monster of a pet, sort of tadpole-like, that had it's heart in the right place...but its appetite was ALL over the place?  This is "The Pet...A monster pet with one scary appetite."

McDonald's Goat Commercial

Here's the new McDonald's Goat commercial. I helped design the story boards. Thanks once again to Creative Directors John Montgomery & Keith Hughes of Leo Burnett!

Spaceman Stu

One of the fun McDonald's animated commercials that broke recently is Spaceman Stu. I was thrilled to be a part of bringing this little guy to life with the first ad agency for which I ever worked, Leo Burnett. His initial design simple enough, we had him look like a normal little boy, only he seemed to defy gravity by severely leaning back so as to get a better view of the stars. For high-def, go here.

Deep Sea Crunch

Here are the storyboards to the spot: