Earlier this year, Vancouver director Melanie Jones brought me on-board her team to help pitch a sci-fi film project for the Telus-funded Storyhive competition. The project, called IIDENT, needed some concept art developed to help illustrate the pitch.
I was part of a fantastic Storyhive team this year, helping to pitch a sci-fi adventure by Vancouver director Melanie Jones. The project, called IIDENT, is something she’s been developing for a few years now, and she asked me to come on board to create…
A personal exercise that started life as a doodle on a piece of scrap paper, and grew into a full-on design project:
Drop the Pop began with a tantalising brief from Yellowknife-based Artless Collective:
This summer I created an animated scottish terrier for a promotional campaign at Knowledge. ‘Scotty’ in his final form turned out to be immensely popular, but not every idea I developed was met with approval. Here are some of the concepts which were rejected (god…
I’m currently (slowly but surely!) working on an animated film based on the folktales of Korea’s Jeju Island. In it, Seolmundae Halmang, the giant goddess who created the island (imagine an old-asian-lady version of Paul Bunyan), makes a deal with the normal-sized villagers who reside there….
If you’re somewhere in Canada watching TV this holiday season and you see this cute little ad, hit the PVR button and turn up the volume — that’s one of mine! In September, the very awesome and talented Jenn Strom asked me to…
As I get deeper and deeper down the rabbit-hole of production on ‘The Legend of Seolmundae Halmang’, my home office has evolved into a proper little studio. I thought it would be cool to show it off 🙂 My animation desk. Brainstorming: How would and…
A popular adage describes how the unique dialect spoken on Jeju Island evolved so that fishermen could call out to each other over the wind and waves and be still be heard, and if you were to hear a native speaker you would believe it….
I have a new epic project in the works, an animated adaptation of a very unusual Korean folktale. This is the story of Seolmundae Halmang, the giant goddess who created Jeju Island: A long time ago, Seolmundae Halmang created Jeju Island by gathering dirt in…