(EDIT: Contest is now closed. Winner and correct answers here.) As a character designer I'm fascinated with product mascots. A good mascot, when combined with a strong ad campaign, can be an enormous benefit when promoting a product or service. My favorite freelance projects are when clients hire me to design a mascot or character, either for advertising or animation. To help...
As I mentioned in my last post, this weekend I had the privilege of meeting animator and author Tom Sito. I just wanted to take a moment to plug his book, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson. You are probably thinking it would be hard to come up with a more...
Here's yet another toy design I worked on for novelty cake supplier DecoPac. It's a cake tie-in for the DreamWorks movie Monsters vs. Aliens. It's a little hard to tell from the photo but it's a figurine of the Insecto character and two plastic finger rings featuring the characters B.O.B and Missing Link. The background is a concept painting from the movie...
For twenty years Walt Stanchfield was a drawing instructor at Disney, teaching and inspiring some of the worlds' best artists and animators to help them hone their craft. He often gave his students handouts filled with inspiring sketches and valuable insights into the process of gesture drawing. The handouts were so popular that they were photocopied and traded like baseball...
Deadlines met, I can now resume blogging. This past weekend NBC aired the final episode of 3-2-1 Penguins! for this season. Incidentally, it was also the last episode I had the privilege of working on. We originally did two seasons back-to-back and my role in the project was completed almost a year ago. I haven't heard anything since about creating new...
Last weekend NBC aired another new episode of 3-2-1 Penguins! Here's some of the character design work I did for that episode. For this episode my job was to design some jelly worm characters: a pair of prison guards, and a gigantic jelly worm creature that would swallow the bad guy's spaceship. I spent more time than usual on the color because...
