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Various sketches of cityscapes, vehicles and background characters for the exciting second installment of the Spiderverse. The directive was to concentrate on Nueva York which was to feature design and illustration styles of the 1970’s-1980’s. Sketches here range from simple line drawings to more finished illustrations.

Worked with Pete Candeland, back in 2013, to create Concept Art which inspired the look for the Grinches lair and Whoville.

A Variety of Location, vehicle, character and logo designs for the Dreamworks Animated Feature

Location, boat, and poster designs for the feature film 

Various designs for the park, the labs and main features. Evolving designs established in the previous Jurassic Park films.

Early development of Droid, creature and ship designs

A wide range of location, vehicle, character designs for Gore Verbinski's animated masterpiece.

Early design development for several of the featured characters.

Character, sleigh and ship designs for Aardman's Holiday feature.

Various designs for characters, locations, vehicles for Bob Zemeckis' animated feature.

Various designs for the vehicles and set pieces for the third chapter of the Jurassic Park franchise

Various designs for major locations, air and land vehicles for the Steven Spielberg/ Stanley Kubrick futuristic classic.

Early development for Lightning McQueen

Design for 1st X-Jet

My first role as Production Designer happened to be on only the 2nd CG Animated Feature, and the first for Dreamworks. 

Various designs for characters, locations, overall palette and moments in the film.

Various designs for costumes, machinery and the trip into the 4th Dimension.( '4th Dimensional consultant' One of my favorite film credits)

Designs for vehicles, props, and equipment for the Hunters and Gatherers in the Jurassic Park sequel.

Aside from storyboarding numerous 'bug battles' I was also doing costume, ship, location and graphic designs for Paul VerHoven's classic.

Early development of the iconic 'Pod Racers'.

Early development which included introducing a very 60's vibe to the overall production design. Alien weapons, ships and characters.

Key story prop and poster designs for Bob Zemeckis' wicked take on vanity.

I have Rick Carter to thank for making JP one of my most memorable experiences. Aside from contributing to numerous, key storyboard sequences, to many of the action sequences, Rick inspired and encouraged me to help design several of the films featured vehicles, props and graphics. These are a small sample of all the development work done thru ought the course of the film. Early concepts and some that made it to final filming.

Thanks to Rick Carter who allowed me to create assorted designs for everything 2015 in Bob Zemeckis' second chapter of the BttF  trilogy.

Aside from storyboarding, I was asked to use my car drawing abilities to mimic Alex Tremulis' 1940's visionary design drawings for props in the film.

Designs for some of the featured and secondary characters in George Lucas' & Ron Howard's epic fantasy tale.

Dave Stevens had already done a masterful job of designing the rocket pack, but a couple of us were asked to take a crack at what it could be. These are a few of the designs which had more of it’s complexity visible.

This film has a long history. While at ILM, back in the early 90’s, I was asked to do some design explorations of ships and locations. These are a few of those.

Early 2014 Poster development for the film. Overall tone of the film hadn’t been established so I ‘shotgunned’ it. At the bottom the gallery is what the final poster became, created by another artist.

Collection of Sketches from George Lucas’ Musical Animated Feature ‘Strange Magic’ BoogeyMan’s Lair, character concepts, interior and exterior explorations, logo treatments,maps and end credits