Here are some panels I drew showing the chimps arrival and departure from the planet Zeta.
ARRIVAL: This “was” my favorite scene in the whole movie. The wormhole was going to be mix of Pink elephants and some of my favorite abstract animators: Jordon Belson, Oscar Fischinger, Len Lye and Norm Mclaren. It was going to be a wonderful departure from the normal screensaver look for these things. Alas… it never came to be.
( p.s. sorry didn’t have time to write up the text on this one.)
- 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
- 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
- me on a mini bike
- looks faded
- trying out expressions in zbrush
- buzby about to lose it
- tweet placeholder
- 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
- 9x12in oil on linen
- POV
- 9x12in oil on wood panel
- Sunset view from the statue
- 9x12in oil on wood panel
- 9x12in oil on linen panels
- Laying in the sky
- blocking in the main shapes
- The final painting
DEPARTURE: Once again the script didn’t explain how the chimps actually got into space so we the board team had to make it up. We invented a volcano to parallel Hams circus cannon act and reverse engineered it into the rest of the story.
