I Will

This is a storyboarded concept I did while working at Project Firefly. I was given free reign to board an animation short that would function as a music video for a band we were working with. I was given the music to work from, the only requirement being that the short would fit within the space of the song.

My idea was based on watching my daughter play with her toys. She seemed to invent whole worlds of characters and situations while playing with her dolls alone in her room. She had an amazing ability to immerse herself in this make believe world where her dolls became real people.

In my short, a grown woman returns to the room that she grew up in, and for a moment is able to reenter that childhood world of fantasy and imagination. At the end the toy box is closed and she leaves the room behind.

After pitching this idea the producer who had commisioned the short just stared at me blankly, uncomprehending. Needless to say this is as far as the project ever got.

Brother Bear

These are a few concepts for the film Brother Bear. The tough thing about this project was to get all the required realism but make it feel like a special unique world at the same time. It was one of my favorite projects at Disney.

New Groove stuff

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Heres a batch of development concepts I did for the Disney movie Emporers New Groove, specifically for the dark jungle sequence. Although I love working digitally now there was something really fun about traditional pencil sketching....

From Beyond

A while age some Disney friends and I got it in our minds to do an animated adaptation of H.P Lovecraft's short story "From Beyond". The project didnt get very far along but it was a lot of fun doing these character concepts- The conservative looking guy (who bears a resemblance to lovecraft) is the narrator, and the crazy looking old man is Crawford Tillinghast.

Thomas watching Halloween H20

Thomas was transfixed by Halloween H20- one of the rare moments when he was holding still enough to paint.