co worker....

Wow, I've been so busy lately designing characters for this new show Tuff Puppy that I've had very little time to do any personal work. So here's one I did a while back of a friend at work. He's such a great guy but what a character. It's no surprise to walk by his cube and see him reading Big Foot Monthly or UFO Digest....

Happy Thanks....what?

Fairly Odd Parents characters

Grandma and Gramps...!

Timmy finally meets his Grandparents from Ustinkistan....

Grog

some more development art I did for Nickelodeon a while back....

"not the pole!"

Quick cintiq sketch

Frozen!!

Ripped...!

A quick drawing I did today of Cosmo tugging on someone's leg. It's been so long since I posted anything, I'm glad to be back in the game, thx for looking!

Big Head

4X5 gouache/digital

Peg leg!!

Gouache

more Wishology designs....Fairly Odd Parents

A few aliens I did for the Star Wars section of the Wishology, it was a fun section to work on. Great clean up on this one from our clean up crew and great color by Alex Deligiannis, nice work guys!

Turbo Thunder Fairly Odd Parents

This design was a very collaborative effort. Me, Matt Whitlock and Butch Hartman all kind of had a hand in it. I think the end result was pretty cool with great voice acting by Brendan Fraser.

Kiss Wishology designs!

What a blast it was to not only design the Kiss characters for the Wishology but also getting to meet both Gene and Paul when they came in for their voice records. I was also lucky enough to get them to sign both of the original roughs I had done on paper, thanks guys!! To read all about it you can head to the Kiss Website or for even more fun check out the article in Rolling Stone!

WISHOLOGY..!!

Tonight is the big premiere of the Fairly Odd Parents Three hour extravaganza WISHOLOGY!! There was a lot of hard work that went into this so please tune in and check it out!! In the mean time here are a few rough Wishology poster ideas that I did. They decided to go with something else in the long run but it was still a blast to do these. For even more info head to the Nickelodeon Wishology page
http://www.nick.com/shows/wish/index.jhtml

Viva La France..!!

A cheering French crowd that was fun to draw...!

Fairly Odd Parents....Dad-YAK??

Here's one of Dad draped in a Yak skin for some reason..??

Three heads are better than one....

Gouache sketches for fun....been looking at Mr. Sasek.

Good Ol Days!!

Here 's an old model I stumbled across from everyones favorite FOP episode Good Ole Days!! It's Cosmo and Wanda
as foxes, that was a fun one!

That creepy old man...

I think in every town there was that one house that everyone was afraid of....

3 quick post-it sketches....

From time to time I like to doodle on post its...here's a couple that I did recently.

Mummies Alive Prop Designs

About 13 years ago I had my very first job in the animation Industry. I had just moved to LA from Detroit and had no idea what I was doing but was lucky enough to land a job as Prop Designer on a show called Mummies Alive. It was a fun project, eveything had to have an Egyptian look about it. I must admit, designing an answering machine that looked like it was from ancient Egypt was challenging! In case you don't know Mummies Alive was about a group of crime fighting Mummies who slept in their circoficus's by day and protected their city and fought crime by night. Here's a small collection of props I did for the show.

phone "dudeles"....

I've been a chronic phone doodler ever since I can remember. I was talking to a friend the other day for a while and I sketched out these 6 heads, kind of rockabilly punk dudes...? Phone doodles are interesting to me....there's really no thought that goes into them, it's almost total stream of conscious/auto pilot yet things sometimes turn out half way decent..?

The Monk of Madness consults his mighty staff!

It's been a while since I posted any personal work so here goes. Did this piece a while back but felt it wasn't quite there yet, so I put it aside for a bit. After a couple recent tweeks the other day I ithink it's getting there....

RATS..!!!

A few mangy looking rats from Fairly Odd Parents...

Mr. Birkenbake

Another very early design, Mr. Birkenbake the Science teacher. The super mellow 60's reject, I think we all had at least one teacher like him in junior high. I had just come off of time Squad so this one is still pretty Time Squady but I think it still works for the show.

Probably one of the first crowds I ever designed for Fairly Odd Parents, It took me forever. I remember taking my time to make sure they all had interesing clothes and so forth. When I finally saw it cleaned up my Boss changed everyones clothes and put them all in matching joggin suits to fit the scene...! Which I didn't even know about??

Doa..!

Werewolf....

Although he's kind of looking a little like a bat too, I guess he's the new breed of Werewolf's...??
Another design from Fairly Odd Parents.

Caveman

Here's a Caveman design I did a while back for a development project at Nickelodeon....

random sketches....on paper!

Here's a small batch of sketches I did a while back, these were all done on paper. Although I love working on the cintiq there is still nothing like working on paper. Personally I don't think it will ever be completely replaced.

Dad eats...arm??!