Trainwreck Interview
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2024-07-11 13:29:10 +0000 UTC View Post
As long as we're referencing Mario Bava, here's what happens when I add the words 'starring Barbara Steele" to the prompt.
2024-07-05 12:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
As a child of the 60s, the vintage Mario Bava vibe of these posters is thoroughly delightful. Swapping out a few words in the prompt pushed the style in a number of unexpected directions, like 1970...
2024-07-03 12:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A.I. art generation has been making me a bit crazy. It's exciting, scary and addictive.
Some fanmade models of Aeon exist. For myself, using AI to generate images that look like my own drawin...
2024-07-02 11:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Diego created Victor and Valentino, which ran for three seasons on Cartoon Network. I started working on the show when he asked me to design the opening title sequence. I stayed on as the ...
2024-07-01 14:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The second part of my dialogue with Robert Valley. He was busy finishing his third Love Death and Robots episode for the upcoming season. He couldn't say much about it, and we turn to...
2024-05-20 11:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the low frequency of posts. I am trying to schedule interviews with new guests to cover a wider range of topics going forward. For now, I am sharing the recording of week 11 of my dir...
2024-04-19 02:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostA short clip from week 4's class where I follow up on the previous discussion on the problem of knowing the difference between justified and unjustified readings of an image. It turns out to be a v...
2024-02-28 00:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Supplement to Podcast 37
2024-02-26 04:46:10 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about the delay. Robert Valley and I have been unable to find time again to record this week. I'm posting week 3's discussion from the 2023 Projectcity Directing Masterclass. Each edition of ...
2024-02-26 04:43:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I'm looking for a chance to talk to Robert again, I am sharing a portion of week 8 of the Pilot class. I show examples of my storyboarding process to the class using examples from two project...
2024-02-13 06:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Tom McClure is a brilliant designer and illustrator with whom I've had the pleasure to work on many projects over the years, beginning with his contributions to the second LTV series of Æon Flux s...
2024-02-12 07:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Concept art for the new original series for which this Patreon was started. Art is from 2021. Since then, a number of changes have been made, including the title. It's a work in progress.
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More concept art, storyboards, layouts and roughs for the unfinished short Terrapins. This post includes previously shared drawings plus layouts and storyboards for patrons wi...
2024-01-29 01:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a small supply of these in-store color posters which accompanied the Levi's commercial campaign. I will include one poster with your art packages (500 credits +) while the supply lasts.
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Based on response to my posts, I am offering items from my archives such as studies, sketches, various thumbnail roughs and a few final cleaned up pencils. Once digital delivery became standard, I'...
2024-01-01 08:35:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Robert Valley and I go back a long way, but don't have many opportunities to talk at length. This time too, was cut short unfortunately, but it got a dialogue started which will be the first of a s...
2023-12-30 03:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
On paid jobs, before digital delivery became standard, the original final work was always given over to the client. The only originals I get to keep are the preliminaries and unused drawings. I nev...
2023-12-21 00:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post
More scans from my archives. These are items I will offer in the next catalog. Some of these are the first sketches for illustrations, a few layouts used in production, costume concept drawings and...
2023-12-15 00:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
A preview of items being added to the catalog of available pieces for top tier patrons.
The catalog will be sent out later this month. If there are multiple requests on certain items, let me ...
2023-12-12 18:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post
After finishing Firebreather at SamG animation in Seoul, the studio head Kim Suhoon hoped to pitch an updated CG version of the 1970s Toei series Starzinger (currently on Prime Vi...
2023-12-11 21:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Fellow MTV Animation veteran Chris Prynoski has had a remarkable career that continues to inspire a new generation of animation artists. The debut of the beautiful and surreal series Scavengers...
2023-12-04 08:04:56 +0000 UTC View PostThese excerpts are like commentary tracks for a couple of Aeon Flux scenes, plus a verbal pitch from the first episode of my proposed new series.
Please view Podcast 27, the lesson on moral s...
2023-11-24 10:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In 2015, Warner Animation planned to revive another of their popular legacy characters in an updated Jetsons show. The concept was to retool it as a slice of life adult comedy, a bit like ...
2023-11-18 01:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1999, Cartoon Network asked me to design a relaunch of the Hanna-Barbera 1960s Saturday morning cartoon The Herculoids. Since it had always been a childhood favorite, I tried to be fait...
2023-11-18 01:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostAn edit combining parts from week 6 and week 7 of my pilot workshop. This is a further exploration of the idea that a good film must always tell two stories at once: the in-world fictional narrativ...
2023-11-08 23:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostAnimatic and pencil test for a 10 second on-air promo for Fox Kids. 1999.
2023-11-08 18:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post