Full Circle-character environment design

Full Circle was an inhouse animated short. the story is about 6 rubber ducks in a tub. i got to design the bathroom, and the ducks. i decided to do the ducks in more mallard duck scheme than the typical yellow rubber duck color cause of the environment was so sterile, so much white in the bathroom that the yellow ducks would be so boring to look at. that is why i also went with a more abstract style for the ducks.

Full Circle-environment studies

close up paintings of the different regions of the bathroom. i went with a more warped look, kinda like a drooping candle wax look to the assets in the bathroom. i did these in photoshop with a wacom.

Zeno-advertisment design

style boards for an advertisment of a product that removes zits. never really played with vector tools, so this was my first time to really play around with it. they wanted it really feminine, gearing toward the ladies. did diefferent ones playing with flowers, and the bottom one i was thinking more of the teenage market.

Over the Hill-character concept

character design for a birthday e-card short. the idea behind it, was an old school steamboat willie or bosko style of walk cycle of this character walking over a hill as he pass the highest point and comes back down he starts to get older till his back gives out. he falls and as he hits the ground his body turns to dust and as the dust settles a tombstone is revealed.

Death Prank_character concept

i try to create some different and unique style for each animation short. this one is an over the hill short, where the kid comes to the older guys house dressed as death, and when the dude answers the door he gets scared and he passed out.

World War 2 Pinata-character design

this was done for a birthday e-card animated short. these were painted through photoshop. the story is told from inside the pinata as it is getting bashed by kids. the candies are inside mimicing a world war 2 paratrooper. as the pinata breaks they bail out and jump!

Remote Kat-character design

this was the preliminary idea for an ad for the military tv station that was converting to HD. previously they told us that they didnt want to use any military situations in their ads, they didnt want the families of the soldiers relating to that. so i took to a very colorful direction. more of an anime, nintendoesque lightness to it. i wanted to focus on the vibrant colors that HD cranks out. but they that it was feminine and kiddie kiddie. so they changed their minds and wanted something more gears of war in style. so we took it there.

Flat Panel Dog-character Design

character design for a post apocalyptic future world, where these High Definition Screens rule over the world, the ground would be layed out with broken standard def tv monitors. but the idea got twisted into something else.

Reel Time- advertisement design

coming up with a slate for the final shot of a television ad. done for the military tv station.

Lincoln Plaza- wall mural design

did this for a video wall in lincoln plaza, the content is suppose to be animated later.

here is a larger view of it. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZBUTISsJu4ssr3xdjIaWBWlJJZo8ez8tRgOmj6Vjl21R7ZCnDrtp1rStBIsc7k4JALoIjm_yBJAtxuJBn_UbSCBWzXD3bvSSW0vSwRaznWvcvFQqEZFI1uo74wbY1L7TwAh2zMLsxWc/s1600-h/murals.jpg

Atlanta International Airport-character concepts

the client wanted a flyby of the interior for their airport, we pushed to give it some character by doing some stylized characters inhabiting the airport. these were some designs.

Vikings E-Card_character concept

trying to come up witha style to go with for this animated holiday e-card short.

it involves, this tuff barbaric looking vikings traveling through treacherous lands, finally arriving to a small cottage with orphan children taken care by a pretty young lady, the barbaric looks like they are going to slay the children when they reveal they are there to hand out gifts to them. its a good ol' fashion feel good card.

Vikings E-Card_ character concepts

viking foster mom and viking orphaned children.

Physical Fitness Awareness-character concept

this was for an in house fitness awareness mascot. gonna be used for print work like flyers and other announcements. the ones that got chosen was the health nuts, they are a peanut and a cashew.

Fishie_character concept

this was for a holiday e-card. the idea behind the fish is that he is constantly on edge. like when you go to the pet store and tap on the glass and all the fish freak out. the owner of the fish is changing the decorations of the fish tank from a tropics setting to a more winter season setting.

Corrosion-character concepts

was hired to create a character to represent corrosion on engine parts. very minimal direction only direction it had to be female and be chained. this was for a print ad.

Pineapple-manipulation

this was an indie film, where we were hired to composite a CG train to hit a guy. We did that but something wasn't giving it the feel of impact, so they got me to Photoshop the actor getting smashed in one frame of the film. it worked great, and it was fun to murder him.

i also did some of the textures for the carts on the train.

Target Data Center-modeling, texturing

Target Data Center, got to do the modeling and texturing of the front lobby of the data center. the client liked the custom target phone in the scene that they got a real one made for the security cage.

Blue Cross-modeling, texturing

Blue Cross architecture render, did the modeling and texturing of the building minus the plants inside. used 3DS Max 9.

Club Corp Atlanta-modeling, texturing

I did the modeling of the room and furniture minus the small assets, like silver ware and vases. Also textured the models as well. Used 3DS Max 9 for this.

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