IF I HAD BUILT A HOTEL IN TRANSYLVANIA...

As everyone knows, animated films are one of the easiest things in the world to make.  There's never any disagreements and the original director always sees the film through to the end.  Sure........well,  I ended up pitching a version of Hotel Transylvania I would have liked to see when one of the versions I was hired to work on came to an abrupt end one sunny SoCal afternoon.  It's a great exercise in storytelling to give yourself the challenge of trying to incorporate the ideas you know the studio wants to have in the film vs. the ideas that excite you personally about the concept.  So, I spent a week and whipped up this pitch to the Sony Anim. Development Dept.  I still kinda like it...(;^P

(-my version of the Mummy had him all wrapped up including his Pharaoh-style hat and he carried the jars with his embalmed internal organs......funny!  Right?!?)

THE GUARDIANS ARE RISING...

and with it comes the heart warming tale of how I birthed these little disembodied Santa hats into being!
OOOOOOOooooooooo...

ROCK-A-FIRE EXPLOSION INSANITY!!!

It's a kinda animation related posting. This is a doodle based on one of the massively entertaining obsessed fans of 1980's kids restaurant Showbiz Pizza's animatronic band, THE ROCK-A-FIRE EXPLOSION:

 You can find the full documentary on netflix.  It is hilarious and terrifying!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJCkv7BsoM8

WHAT THE F*#K, THAT'S NOT A CARTOON!

Here's a couple of on site sketches from one of our trips over to Catalina.  The landscape and architecture on the island are so diverse that you find interesting compositions everywhere, from the center piece historic Casino, to a random alleyway.  Sketching like this is a great exercise in visual editing, especially if you give yourself a time limit to sketch...