One of the downsides to being a writer or a concept artist is that no one ever gets to see your work. If you’re lucky it will navigate its way to the screen, but chances are it will never see the light of day. Even when everything comes together, for better or worse, it is never what you intended. It always remains an impression of a thought. Only that. It never come out they way you expected it to. If your lucky, its better.
The following is a gallery of early ideas I was exploring for the animated movie Space Chimps.
- for a good long time the ending to my Wakefield project featured a flying house then “UP” came out and it was back to the drawing board
- The gold capped dragon temple
- color key concepts
- Planet plants
- an alien town
- Space Chimps Color Keys
- Han sweeping the city gate
- finding paradise
- frog on the widow sill
- red rover, red rover let alien king come over
- the mountain bandit looking down on the city of Wu
- Han, the pour little street sweeper.
- an ice city
- zoo animals, Mindanao wrinkled hornbill
- the king and his puppets
- the bad guys
- nude digital study
- murder in the banana plants
- mountains photoshop painting
- Woke up one morning to find a rock in the car window.
- A wire and sculpey tree
- The old man “Dragon” from my Dragon project
- Easter Sunday drawing with Daisy Church at the Huntington Gardens
- I showed up with my camera for a friends art show at USC.
- floating body study
- By brother Todd was in a Surf contest so I walked the beach at Morro Strands with my camera and brush
- An old self portrait i made when I was at USC. circa 2001
- a Stillborn calf we found at my family ranch
- From my Califia project, Amazonians on the beach
- one of my first digital paintings
- one of my first digital paintings
- over looking Santa Barbara
- image from my old Bio page
- looking out the upstairs window
- a sickly looking strong man
- whats in this pipe
- Moooving Day. On set with Napolean and Fabrice.
- Fabrice and I on set during the making of Vagabonding. You got to love the shopping cart dolly!
- Daisy and I building a table for the USC Animation Patio
- Jeannie Kim lending a hand
- nearly done
- Silas at Snoopy World in Hong Kong
- My parents newly landscaped back yard.
- me on a mini bike
- blue whisps
- looks faded
- trying out expressions in zbrush
- buzby about to lose it
- pumpkin farm
- The trailer
- painted on the canvas cover of my drawing bag
- Filming on the family farm. That barn would soon get torn down to be our winery.
- Film nerds
- The gold capped dragon temple
- Mark Decter
- My Wife and I on graduation day
- Marc Deckter rocking the super8mm camera out in Joshua Tree
- Brian Coffee
- Tom Sito and USC animation class at the WB
- Daisy Church
- thats me back in the day
- The palace of Fine Arts
- View from my Hong Kong Art studio, over looking Ma on Shan
- New scanner
- gold
- warrior
- storyboard exploration
- story notes
- preparing for war
- dreamland notes
- exploring Kalifia
- nude girl
- Hermosa Beach, costa rica
- guy
- island dream
- prisoner
- banana sidewalk
- pets
- random aliens
- alien park
- japan trip
- old memmories
- going for a walk
- in China
- surfing guy
- messy
- early space chimp doodles
- monkey
- tree branch
- girl and weirdness
- heros
- surfing drawing
- the glass pipe
- spray
- parent trap cartoon
- all over the place
- puppets
- first thoughts
- drawing in his sketchbook
- water
- early Aiya
- the man
- the man
- dog house
- Sterling Sheehy
- A great site
- My new sketchbook
- Ezra and Maul search for answers by merging Jedi and sith holocrons
- Super hero school bad guy round up
- Fleet week beach day
- Rudie drawing a map of the United States
- plugged in and ready to go
- Half way
- Let’s draw!
- Welcome to the Art Archive
- This is not a hat
- This is not a hat
- light through the leaves
- As far as I got before they dragged me off the mountain
- looking West towards Mt. Tam
- my POV
- water-based oil on panel, 8x10in
- 8x10in oil on canvased board
- oil on panel, 8x10in
- 9x12in Oil on panel
- oil on canvas panel 8x10in
- 9x12in oil on board
- Painters view
- Oil on canvas 12x16in
- Singularity from Nano Labs
- 9x12in oil on panel
- 3ft x 4ft oil on canvas
- oil on panel 9x11inch
- 9x11in Oil on Panel
- Artist’s view
- 9x11in oil on panel
- 9x12in oil on panel
- 9x12in oil on panel
- 9x12in Oil on Linen Panel
- 9x12in Oil on linen panel
- Artist’sView
- Rest in peace Twitter
- Artist View
- field trip
I would personally like to thank John Williams for believing in me back when this all started and standing up for me when others were trying to show me the door.