I recently completed work designing a mascot for a new product, Leahy's Chocolate Covered Leprechaun Ears. It's a new confectionary product, fine cashews dipped in rich chocolate. They're shaped like, well, leprechaun or elf ears (hence the name). I've sampled them and they are delicious! Easily as good or better than the name brand chocolate covered nuts you'll find at...
Recently I was hired by Snert Studios to design a wacky rooster character for a Flash-based children's website they are developing. The site is still under construction but the client has given me permission to post my work on the project. I wanted to push the designs in a more stylized direction than normal so I started playing around with various...
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...
Last Saturday NBC aired another new episode of 3-2-1 Penguins! Here's some of the character design work I did for that episode. In this episode the Penguins and the kids land on a planet inhabited by alligator-like characters. This guy was the Emporer. The script described him as an Elvis fan and director requested that he wear an Elvis-like jumpsuit with...
As I mentioned in my last post, I recently attended the Motion 08 animation conference in New Mexico. One of my favorite seminars was "Character Design: Capturing Ethnicity" given by Dan Haskett. Haskett is a Disney veteran who has spent the last twenty years working all over Hollywood as a character designer. He contributed design ideas to such Disney films...
