A Few Good Ghosts

Groovy Kar

Lilo & Stitch

Skyscrapers

Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch

Futuristic Cityscape

Bladerunner inspired, old mixed with new.

Bush

Santa Down

Early color sketch for a Christmas film pitch.

Snowy River

A collaboration. The church was done in two flat elevation views back and side) by a very talented colleague. I then stitched them together in this perspective version and painted the rest of the BG.

Lio & Stitch

Clean-up.

Mountain Orchard

Mountain Ditto

Another version of a mountain.

Park At Night

Metropolis at night.

Location Pitches

A couple of "location" pitches.
For me the key was conflict and danger, get the characters in peril and their true character would emerge. Writing a few pages of story to go with these I hoped would loosen the log-jam of a stalled story.

Lilo & Stitch layout

Found another layout from L&S.

City Blues On the Move

I took one of my pieces, built some FG elements in Maya and loaded in the flat art behind it.
A quick test with the Maya camera, then saved out as a QT. It makes the point.

Mulan

There used to be an interesting phrase I'd hear around the WDFAF studio, and at first didn't understand.
Then someone used it to describe this layout I did on Mulan,"Line mileage".
Lots of work, but fun stuff.
How many Col-erase, Indigo's were killed during the making of this film?

Story Ideas

These were a couple of alternate location ideas I pitched for a troubled story. They were meant to suggest both location and mood.
The first one is the interior of a circus tent. An enclosed space where our heroes would need to face head-on their fears and overcome them. It would motivate them to think fast, and to move faster. Could have made a great action sequence.
The second was the interior of an old water tower. A contemplative moment where they would meet their reason to stop looking back and keep moving forward.

City Blues

What's that famous line..."there are a thousand stories in the Naked City.." Well this is a blue one.

Cold mountain

Our hero has to get up there, what more do we need to know?

Poe(etic) Justice - 3

Yet another in the series.

Poe(etic) Justice -2

Another in a series of twisted ditties.

Poe(etic) Justice -1

I've written a book. I guess it's not exactly for kids. This is one of the verses and it's accompanying Illustration.

VizDev

Set up for a pitch based on an original story idea.

Cinderella

One from the vaults...my first painting done in Illustrator for a series of CD's that were only released overseas.

Devil's Glen

More work for the "Devil's Glen".

Concept Vehicles

Title says it all.

Remy....

Playing with the light and the staging.

Remy & The Rats

Nasty Rats.

Remy & The Rats

Another in a series.

Remy & the Rats

I really like the illustrations of Arthur Rackham, and the BG's of 101 Dalmatians. Unfortunately this attempt comes close to neither, but it was an exercise I gave myself. 1 finished illustration in 1 day.

Pitching In

A graphic I created for a series that I thought would make great cover art for a children's book.

I had an idea for a series and came up with this character.

Indiana Ruth

..yet another idea for a series.

My Peoples

Another piece of VizDev done for the project that never was. The story had a rustic flavor, so I thought perhaps the art should reflect that.

My Peoples

Another bit of early VizDev for a project that had a number of titles.
It never got made. I based this painting on a line drawing I did while still with Disney.

Just for fun.

I like the effect, and the image.

WalterP.P.K.

More development art.

Man-In-Black

A character design for a series pitch.

Hunchback

Another Hunchback drawing that started as a portfolio piece.

Hunchback

A Hunchback drawing that started as a portfolio piece and was actually finished after I got hired at Disney.
I thought it prudent to give them a credit.

The Devil's Glen

A small but twisted tale I wrote for Halloween.

Devil's Glen

One of a few ideas for an new story I just finished called "The Devil's Glen".
A seven page epic horror/thriller poem. Big market for those I'm sure.

Wendell & emo

Art for another story idea.

3D Series VizDev

I needed to come up with some
futuristic yet prehistoric looking foliage.
I like the shapes and the strong color.
I think it gives them a"not-of-this-world look". And thats what we wanted.

Lilo & Stitch

Layout and screen-grab from film.

Lio & Stitch

An early layout (eventually the story-point dictated a change in the store's design).

Lilo & Stitch

Layout and screen grab from L & S.

Snail II

Another sketch for the Snail story idea.

Lilo & Stitch

Early sketch for L & S.

KITS

VizDev for KITS.

KITS

A VizDev idea for KITS.

Lord Of The Ribs

A graveyard entrance for dinosaurs.

Snail Story

A children's book idea that I'm still working on.

Gumfight at OK Coral

From my sketchbook.
It's an old doodle that got turned into a story idea. I really like the way the shapes in this
underwater island appear to be characters. Too similar in subject matter to Finding Nemo to consider as further development.
Too little, too late.

Lilo & Stitch-1

Really early Viz-Dev....
I had no idea what the story was going to be,
nor were there any character designs.
About the only thing I knew was that this little Hawaiian girl was concerned about the environment, and was being raised by her sister.
I left a spot in the display case for an "alien"
(Stitch), and popped him in there much later.

KITS

More VizDev from my limited run on KITS.

Street Scene

An establishing shot
for a story idea.
The story sits on a studio's shelf.
Gathering dust, instead of money.

Gothic Gump

A ball-point pen sketch,
that turned into a story idea.

VizDev for KITS...

more KITS VizDev...

VizDev Kingdom...

Another VizDev for Kingdom.
There was a pre-"Emperor's" Seq that took place in some catacombs....

I did this when I first started out in TV.
Can't remember what it was for,
only that it was fun to draw. I have a color version somewhere that I'll try to dig up and post.

I did this from a pencil sketch for (yet another)
storybook story. I love doing this kind of stuff,
I call it the "funky chunky" style. Not overly original but a blast to create!

This piece was done while at Disney, we were ramping up to what was then called Kingdom in the Sun.
The film was put on hold, and we were moved onto another film.
It was later put out as The Emperor's New Groove.

Well, I thought I'd start off my brand new blog with some art. My Logo. Back in the old days there used to be "ink & paint" departments at all the studios. Now no longer needed with the advent of computers. But what is still needed is the creative visuals. I do visual development for animation and by adding the "th", a splotch of paint and a lightbulb (a bit obvious I admit) I figured those in the know would get it. And it's a respectful nod to the methods that helped this industry get to where it is today. But that's another posting...more to come.