Last year I was hired by Goldfish Swim Schools to create a mascot for their company, a goldfish named "Bubbles". They liked the mascot so much that they've since hired me to create a series of stick-on tattoos and coloring book pages for children featuring Bubbles in various costumes and themes. They'll distribute one per month for an entire year. I...
As some of you know, one of my clients is VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer. Over the past few months he's hired me to do little snippets of animation here and there for his new educational series "What's In The Bible?". Recently he wrapped up a 9-DVD series on the Old Testament and started work on the New Testament, which is...
Earlier this year I was hired by a chain of swimming schools in Wisconsin to design a mascot for their company, Goldfish Swim Schools. You can see a few of the initial sketches here. They named the mascot "Bubbles", and they liked him/her/it so much that they asked me to create themed variations for use on calendars, removable tattoos, etc....
VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer has just released a new DVD called Clive and Ian's Wonderblimp of Knowledge. The series features two popular puppet brothers from Phil's ongoing series What's In The Bible?. The purple monkey puppet in the background was designed by yours truly. Here's the final design (you can see my concept sketches in an earlier post): Clive and Ian's Wonderblimp...
Former Disney animator and character designer Tom Bancroft has released his second art book, "Character Mentor: Learn by Example to Use Expressions, Poses, and Staging to Bring Your Characters to Life". His first book, "Creating Characters with Personality", was an excellent primer on character design. This follow-up takes things a step further, focusing on how to add life to your...
Lately I just can't seem to get out of the courtroom. No, I'm not in any legal trouble. But around the same time I was working as a courtroom sketch artist for the Amy Senser hit-and-run trial, one of my regular clients hired me to do some animation that was, coincidentally, set in a courtroom. I can't reveal much about that...
