ThinkandPaint

BigLittleTown

2012-01-07T21:21:00.000-05:00

BoulderTown

2012-01-07T21:05:00.001-05:00

3/4 down Greenwich Village

2012-01-07T21:01:00.000-05:00

Location Roughs for SB

2012-01-07T20:54:00.000-05:00

Greenwich Village

2012-01-07T20:40:00.000-05:00

Alley

2012-01-07T20:26:00.000-05:00

G&J

2012-01-07T19:06:00.001-05:00

Beware The Evil Lirkerr

2012-01-07T19:01:00.002-05:00

Evil Lirkerr

2012-01-07T18:54:00.002-05:00

Niagra Falls

2012-01-07T18:46:00.001-05:00

Forest

2012-01-07T18:24:00.005-05:00

City Street

2011-01-03T20:36:00.002-05:00

City Street

2011-01-03T20:11:00.002-05:00

Village Pan

2011-01-03T20:10:00.002-05:00

Brother Bear

2010-06-16T15:40:00.001-04:00

Found another couple of layouts from Brother Bear.

Brother bear

2010-06-16T15:36:00.002-04:00

Brother Bear

2010-06-14T11:34:00.000-04:00

Found another rough layout from Brother Bear.

CG series VizDev

2010-06-14T11:03:00.009-04:00

An early sketch I did for a cg series. I wanted to keep the shapes and volumes beefy and to push them into toon territory, and away from any sense of realism.

Brother Bear

2010-04-20T13:22:00.000-04:00

Found another Brother Bear layout.

Downshots-R-Me

2010-03-30T17:17:00.001-04:00

and more....

2010-02-03T00:55:00.000-05:00

More Lilo...

2010-02-03T00:46:00.000-05:00

2010-02-03T00:32:00.000-05:00

An Evil Lair.

2010-01-31T18:07:00.001-05:00

2010-01-31T18:04:00.000-05:00

2010-01-31T18:02:00.001-05:00

Lilo & Stitch

2009-08-02T17:46:00.000-04:00

Skyscrapers

2009-08-02T17:34:00.000-04:00

Lilo & Stitch

2009-08-02T17:30:00.000-04:00

Lilo & Stitch

2009-08-02T15:52:00.001-04:00

Futuristic Cityscape

2009-08-02T15:31:00.001-04:00

Bladerunner inspired, old mixed with new.

Bush

2009-06-24T15:48:00.000-04:00

Santa Down

2009-04-29T10:34:00.001-04:00

Early color sketch for a Christmas film pitch.

Snowy River

2009-04-04T22:13:00.008-04:00

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

2009-04-04T18:14:00.000-04:00

Clean-up.

Mountain Orchard

2009-04-04T18:06:00.000-04:00

Mountain Ditto

2009-03-05T09:27:00.002-05:00

Another version of a mountain.

Park At Night

2009-02-19T00:24:00.008-05:00

Metropolis at night.

Location Pitches

2009-02-17T00:13:00.003-05:00

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

2009-02-17T00:00:00.001-05:00

Found another layout from L&S.

City Blues On the Move

2009-02-13T22:33:00.003-05:00

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

2009-02-13T09:57:00.004-05:00

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

2009-02-11T13:51:00.004-05:00

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

2009-02-08T18:00:00.005-05:00

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

Cold mountain

2009-02-08T17:53:00.003-05:00

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

Poe(etic) Justice - 3

2008-10-06T18:55:00.002-04:00

Yet another in the series.

Poe(etic) Justice -2

2008-10-01T17:48:00.002-04:00

Another in a series of twisted ditties.

Poe(etic) Justice -1

2008-09-26T17:19:00.004-04:00

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

2008-07-24T16:36:00.002-04:00

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

Cinderella

2008-07-09T12:41:00.002-04:00

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

Devil's Glen

2008-05-21T13:06:00.004-04:00

More work for the "Devil's Glen".

Concept Vehicles

2008-05-21T12:17:00.000-04:00

Title says it all.

Remy....

2008-05-15T01:18:00.000-04:00

Playing with the light and the staging.

Remy & The Rats

2008-05-06T16:33:00.002-04:00

Nasty Rats.

Remy & The Rats

2008-05-05T17:08:00.003-04:00

Another in a series.

Remy & the Rats

2008-04-25T00:32:00.008-04:00

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

2008-04-12T13:28:00.004-04:00

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

2008-04-11T11:25:00.002-04:00

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

Indiana Ruth

2008-04-11T11:17:00.005-04:00

..yet another idea for a series.

My Peoples

2008-03-27T21:30:00.005-04:00

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

2008-03-27T13:53:00.003-04:00

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.

2008-02-13T13:24:00.005-05:00

I like the effect, and the image.

WalterP.P.K.

2008-02-02T13:58:00.001-05:00

More development art.

Man-In-Black

2008-01-30T01:41:00.001-05:00

A character design for a series pitch.

Hunchback

2008-01-08T16:56:00.000-05:00

Another Hunchback drawing that started as a portfolio piece.

Hunchback

2008-01-08T16:46:00.001-05:00

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

2007-11-25T00:25:00.001-05:00

A small but twisted tale I wrote for Halloween.

Devil's Glen

2007-11-22T22:06:00.001-05:00

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

2007-11-21T17:01:00.001-05:00

Art for another story idea.

3D Series VizDev

2007-07-31T19:43:00.002-04:00

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

2007-01-27T15:03:00.000-05:00

Layout and screen-grab from film.

Lio & Stitch

2007-01-27T14:53:00.000-05:00

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

Lilo & Stitch

2007-01-27T14:51:00.000-05:00

Layout and screen grab from L & S.

Snail II

2007-01-27T14:49:00.000-05:00

Another sketch for the Snail story idea.

Lilo & Stitch

2007-01-27T14:48:00.000-05:00

Early sketch for L & S.

KITS

2007-01-27T14:46:00.000-05:00

VizDev for KITS.

KITS

2007-01-27T14:42:00.000-05:00

A VizDev idea for KITS.

Lord Of The Ribs

2007-01-27T14:40:00.000-05:00

A graveyard entrance for dinosaurs.

Snail Story

2007-01-27T14:34:00.001-05:00

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

Gumfight at OK Coral

2006-10-10T16:44:00.000-04:00

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

2006-10-10T16:20:00.002-04:00

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

2006-10-06T14:25:00.000-04:00

More VizDev from my limited run on KITS.

Street Scene

2006-09-11T20:48:00.000-04:00

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

Gothic Gump

2006-09-10T13:11:00.001-04:00

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

VizDev for KITS...

2006-08-18T11:38:00.000-04:00

more KITS VizDev...

VizDev Kingdom...

2006-08-18T11:21:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-14T22:16:00.001-04:00

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.

2006-08-14T22:04:00.002-04:00

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!

2006-08-14T22:01:00.001-04:00

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.

2006-08-14T11:59:00.000-04:00

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.