Artwork from my mini-show co-Pitch To Nickelodeon

This is visual development work for a show I helped pitch to Nickelodeon along with 2 other interns. I had 4 days to put this all together, but it was a lot of fun & reminded me of BFA. The story concept was by Nick Collins & Pietra Imastato helped him with developing the story, and I was responsible for the environment design & general art direction.

sorry there haven't been many new updates. A lot of the stuff I've been working on, is technically Nickelodeon's property, so I need to figure out how to acknowledge that, before posting it.

some style explorations inspired by children's books....also trying to get a better handle on Adobe Illustrator.

Spaceship ideations

these ones are painted so much better then the 1st spaceman, that I'm not going to even include it......that happens a lot! thats why I try not to paint my favorite design first. :)

tree studies

A few things from this week while I was in  tahoe.  The painting was from off the balcony of our room.

This was a test for an  online RPG freelance job.

work in progress.  I'm plotting out the major story moments, these will eventually be color keys, and possibly a few will be blown up into viz-dev environments.

character ideations for a new project!

Most of these are studies I did from memory  immediately after looking at reference images.  I found they captured the personality of the dogs WAY better then drawing directly from reference.  

I did another pass at this, and it looks much better. It could use more work, but for now I need to move on to something new!  

We just started a new project based off of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. I'm trying to push the level of reference & detail in my drawings.

This is a environment design for our animal farm project.  I should paint these, but I don't have time right now.

I redrew the environment again after fixing a bunch of perspective issues this weekend.  I think I'm finally going to start painting it now!  It is nice to work on my own projects were I can allow myself to redo stuff over and over until I get it right. You learn so much more that way.

 I took another pass at my design for Handsel & Gretel's house this weekend.  I tried to make it really bright and saturated to contrast with the witches house.....but next comes the establishing shot...

I've been working on this environment the last week or so.  This project is a little more stylized, so i've been designing a lot of the props before jumping to the painting.  School just started back up yesterday, so it may be hard to find time to work on this project :(  but I'll try.