Wine Tasting

Another 80's Illustration for Gourmet Traveller.

Wheel of Torture

Back in the late 80's I had a shot at Tony Barber from "Wheel of Fortune" as an illustration for Gourmet Traveller.

Avatar Ice Cave

This was a rough concept for Avatar "The Last Airbender" video game.

The 80's

During the mid to late 80's I was freelancing for various animation studios, to fill in the weeks between gigs I began working on illustrations with my wife Ona, mainly on editorial magazine stuff and occasionally books and advertizing.
A recent house move has unearthed some of this old 80's art and I decided to post some just for fun.

This artwork of course, was made before computers and so for most of these, we used a mechanical printing approach, whereby we would supply the printers with the artwork separated up into layers.




Editorial illo for GH magazine round about 1987



This next batch was for Gourmet-Traveller magazine back in 1987 or so.
We did a fair amount of work for these folk back then, here are just some I picked out.
(Bit rough though.)



Local soviet dish?












This one was for a chapter heading in an educational book for Angus and Robertson wayback in 86.




The "Carnation" series was for a print ad campaign, there were six in total and all had to be done by hand and directly on the same bit of card, we used stencil masks to airbrush flat areas and light grads. It was a nightmare, any mistakes meant you had to start again, we patched a lot with paint overs but it was hard back then.....Helllloooo Photoshop.






This illo was for the American Express Magazine from around 1988 or so.
You can certainly tell what style was in vouge during that particular era.

LYDIA PILOT LINK (at last)

Well, it all got too hard to try and convert a DVD file to post on this blog, soooooooh,
I've now got a link for both the LUCKY LYDIA trailer and the pilot episode.
Here we go....

Fantasy Aircraft

Here are a couple of fictitious aircraft I designed for my cartoon aircraft blog called "DRAWN PATROL".

These was done purely for fun.

Health Care Illo.

This was a pitch for a health care campaign. Had to emulate an existing art style.

Avatar and Warhammer

After a two year stint working in the video game biz, I managed to gain a wealth of new knowledge and a host of great new friends. I worked on storyboards and pre-viz for a Warhammer game and as a concept artist for an Avatar game.
Here are just a few rough examples.


Chain Bolt Concept - Warhammer

Space Marine Pre-viz 1 - Warhammer

Space Marine Pre-viz 2 - Warhammer

Exterior Prison  - Avatar

Battle Wall  - Avatar 

Sun Temple Ruins  - Avatar

Trap Room 1 Ruins  - Avatar

Trap Room 2 Ruin - Avatar

LUCKY LYDIA

Back in the late 90's, Bob Camp and I made a pilot with Film Graphics for Cartoon Network.
It was based on a loose idea I had, about a kid who's just lucky.
At that stage, the networks were quite interested but it was still just a loose idea.
That's where Bob comes in to the picture, he grabbed the premise instantly and turned it into a properly structured cartoon, bringing tons of "funny" into the concept.
Needless to say of course , that Linda Simensky and Kahki Jones, over at C.N. at the time, were paramount to this whole project. They were keen on Lucky Lydia right from the start.
Cartoon Network green lit the pilot, we made it and it went to air. Although the series was never picked up, we still had a lot of fun writing the stories and producing the animation.

Bob made up the word "Coolaroid", meaning two things really, cool and hemorrhoids, a form of Yin and Yang, good and bad.

CONCEPT ART

Lately I've been working for a video game company on various projects, these are a few level sketches.

Cartoon Network Bumpers

"THROWDOWN"
A while back, I was animation director on a reface for Cartoon Network,
and one of the last, yet most fun bumpers was this one for the "Class Of 3000" show.
I storyboarded and co-directed this clip with Fletcher Moules.
Both AnimalLogic and Film Graphics were producers of this stint.
As this was one of our last bumpers, I had a chance to animate some stuff as well.

(Currently trying to find a better clip for this post.)





"GOOD CAR DAY"
Here's another bumper, this one was a little tricky with the timing,but happy with the results.






"GARAGE SALE"

.....and one more.

Season's Greetings

Queen Komodo

Coco

Coco's Car

Queen Komodo's Car

Queen Komodo


One of Coco Monkey's most feared adversary, Queen Komodo was a fun project and yes, it did make it on air.
I sorted the design and direction, animation was by Andrew Finlayson and Jomar Ravalo.
The production was handled by Filmgraphics.

Thrasher and Grizzly

These two characters were to be the next contenders for Coco Monkey, but the campaign wrapped up early,so these guys never made it.

Village Track

A while ago now, we went on a short holiday to the islands of Vanuatu.
The tropical scenery there was so awesome, that I had to try and draw stuff.
The color picture, was an attempt at a bit o' paintin', well at least with photoshop
anyways. The pen drawing, was of the typical local transport. I'd like to color that up one day.

Coco Pops "Evil Sensei"

Some Chickens


Evil Sensei 1


A pig


Evil Sensei 2


Sumo Hippo in Lather

Another in the series of Kellogg's Coco Pops tvc's, " Evil Sensei " was produced.
Here are some of the characters.