blimp robot design

This is a futuristic robot I designed at Mirada for a Microsoft commercial which was never used. It's a hovering, "dust buster blimp" design. It is made of super-light materials and floats around with the aid of a hydrogen bladder and fans. It maneuvers itself through the air with tentacles lined with macro cilia,  oscillating at extreme speeds. A blinking icon on the side announces the mode; repair mode, in this case.
I guess it isn't really very practical. That's probably why they didn't use it.

New Yorker cover

I did this cover illustration for a New Yorker contest.  We have Eustace Tilley (the New Yorker guy) as a Mayan shaman,  cracking open his new 2012 calendar.

Sugar commercial- matte painting

 These images are from an Indonesian sugar commercial I worked on at Mirada/Motion Theory. I had to design a city made of cakes, and then flesh it out into a final matte painting.

concept sktech

Matte painting

final comp

McRib still life

I've been wanting to try a classic food still-life for a while, but finally found inspiration from the L.A Foodie podcast. Having never tasted a McRib before, nor eaten meat for over 16 years, I gave my review from the perspective of someone who couldn't possibly like it.
You can listen to it here.

I set up a an arrangement of objects and lit them with candlelight. I had to use two sandwiches because my dog ate the first one.

I recorded the entire process and condensed it into a 2-minute movie...

holiday sale!

It seems like everyone else is having a sale, so what the hell?  I'm having a sale, too. Get these high-quality prints for 34% off at the store!

Renaissance portrait sketch

Another 3-hour costume sketch from life from the Drawing Club.

Larry Palmer portrait

 This is a recent portrait I completed of Dr. Larry Palmer, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and specialist  in visual biology.  It hangs in the neuroscience lecture room at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

It started with a meeting in his lab, where I took a series of reference photos of him in his element. We captured different angles and expressions, and from studying those, I produced  a series of pencil sketches to work out the likeness, personality and composition.  This evolved into a color thumbnail in Photoshop, and by refining this, it ultimately became the finished portrait, which was printed onto canvas and framed.

KIA Commercial

I did a bit of work on this epic commercial for KIA at Method Studios, painting spaceship textures and a sci-fi city.

Wormhole

Another concept frame from a Disney show, illustrating a time warp effect.

Giant crab attack

Another concept illustration from an upcoming secret project. A giant crab attacks the coast.