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Charlie in Progress

Posted in Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Oregon Children's Theatre, Photoshop Painting, Portland Oregon, Visual Development, Work in progress, character design, illustration, tagged , , on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Here is another revised Charlie poster for the Oregon Children’s Theatre. I’ve pushed the coloring a bit further than I planned after discussion with their creative and marketing staff.  I think it’s a good dramatic moment and gets to the mystery of this fabulous, magical wonderland that is the Chocolate Factory.This is a pretty small, [...]

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Posters

Posted in Illustration Techniques, Oregon Children's Theatre, Photoshop Painting, character design, childrens books, illustration, kids books, picture books, tagged , , , on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been working on a set of posters for the next season of shows from the Oregon Children’s Theatre. They have five really interesting plays for their next season and I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to dive into working on images from some classic children’s literature.
I started work first on, Charlie and the [...]

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Manu Larcenet

Posted in Manu Larcenet, comic books, comic con, tagged , , , on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not some wacky fan-boy-child-man…No I’m not. But I really admire Manu Larcenet’s work. I’ve written about his graphic novel, Lillte Victoires and I wish more of his work made it into English so I could read and not just look at the pictures. He has a great blog/site, and check out his photo section. [...]

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Animation Thursday

Posted in Animation Artists, Illustration Techniques, Illustrators, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, character design, childrens books, illustration, online animation on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This was passed on to me a few folks now, and thanks to them all! It’s a great find.
Based on the beautiful book by Oliver Jeffers this animated short looks amazing. The character design, the modeling and lighting. Amazing. When I see stuff that looks this original and has a story that is as rich [...]

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Cenozoic part 3

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, character design, childrens books, comic books, tagged , , , , , , on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The final pages from the first Jerry Caveman Inventor story from Cenozoic comics published by OPP. I’m also happy I got to use the word cudgel in the story. And what’s funny without an underwear joke? Who says I don’t consider the 4-8 year olds? Here’s links to Part 1 and Part 2.

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Cenozoic part 2

Posted in Illustration Techniques, Photoshop Painting, character design, comic books, illustration, tagged , , , on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Jerry,  Caveman Inventor, continues his efforts to garner appreciation for his invention of The Shoe. I’ll post the final pages tomorrow! This was all drawn in Photoshop from my typical lose pencil layouts.

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Cenozoic

Posted in cartoons, character design, comic books, tagged , on February 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This is from the first Cenozoic comic book published by OPP back in 2004-05. One of my favorite characters, Jerry, Caveman Inventor tries his best to share his newest invention, shoes, with his fellow citizens. Laughs ensue. I’ll post the rest of the story tomorrow.

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