Shh! It's a Secret Commercial

Here's the first commercial I worked on, again produced through ACME Filmworks. It's from about a year and a half ago in Feb. '05. It was directed by Dave Wasson, storyboarded by Gabe Swarr, with animation by me, Aaron Horvath, Tony Mora, and Pong Carlos. I forget who did the layouts, so if anyone knows, lemme know. I animated the last two sections, Tropical and Vanilla, as well as comping the whole piece together and adding transitions and titles and whatnot. Aaron Horvath animated the first part, Rose. Tony Mora animated the second part, Peach. And I forget what Pong Carlos animated. The end dancing maybe? Or maybe that was Aaron too. I was quite a lot of work to be doing on top of a fulltime job. Getting the sparkles right was a feat in itself. But I think it turned out pretty good. Also, I was a nerd and made all the stars in the beginning shots accent to the beat of the bassline in the song. You gotta look closely for that though. Oh yeah, and the dialouge audio is scratch and not the final. We did some 15 sec. spots as well, which I'll post soon.

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Commercial Animation

Here's a Wheat Thins commercial I worked on at the beginning of the year. It was directed by Dave Wasson, with layouts by Shag, and animation and everything else by me. It's a pretty simple piece, but it was fun to make. This was produced through ACME Filmworks, and they were great. But, as I usually found working on commercials, the Ad agency who hired ACME was a different story. The Wheat Thins box is yellow, and yet they demanded that the thought cloud be yellow as well. Now you can't even see the box, and the girl's skin color gets lost as well. But, I've learned that you have to pick your battles. Dave and I actually had to cut his spot in half and make a 15 sec. version, which is the one that aired. But we like this version way better. Oh yeah, Dave voices the guy, and Brooke Cadorette is the narrator. More commercial posts coming soon!

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The Walker

If you live in or around SilverLake in Los Angeles, then you should know who this is. He is The Walker. No matter what day of the week, or time of day, you have about an 85%-90% chance of seeing this man walking around. He is an older man probably in his 50's with skin that looks like leather. He wears short purple shorts ( he used to wear red, but I'm guessing they just got too worn out) and is usually reading a giant newspaper. Yes, reading while walking. Or he's on his cellphone. The rumor around my circle of friends is that he's a doctor who's on call, which is why you can see him walking in the middle of the day, 7 in the morning, or, no joke, 12 at night. If anyone has more insight into who this man is, let me know.

Deuel

My pal Eric Deuel. He says he grew the beard for Pirates of the Carribean 3, but I think he just likes birds.

Argentina Drawings 2 - People

Well here are the last batch of drawings from my trip to Argentina. I seem to only find time to upload stuff on the weekends, so my posts usually end up being filled with a lot of drawings. I think it might be better to post just one a day, but I guess I just don't have the time during the week. Oh well. During my trip I was either on the go or eating great food with family. So most of my drawings are during lunches, dinners, and coffee breaks. Above is my uncle Hernan. He has a real distinctive looking face, so it was really fun to draw him.
I did this more caricatured one right after the first drawing. I found it a lot easier to caricature someone after trying to draw them realistically first, so I started doing it more as you'll see.
Here's Osvaldo, my aunt's father.
Here's Hector, Osvaldo's brother, and my aunt's uncle.
Here's one of Osvaldo and little more caricatured.
Here's Lucio, my second cousin.
And a weirder Lucio more caricatured. It turned out more like Rodney Dangerfield.
Here are some sketches of this really interesting, cute, flight attendant. These are actually done from memory though.
I think the middle one above is the closest I got.
Here's my cousin Florencia.
Here's my other uncle Adrian.
Here's a woman working at an eyeglasses store.
Here's my other cousin Maria Sol. She's super cute. She likes to draw a lot, so we would draw eachother a lot. She actually really likes The Buzz on Maggie, which down there is called Maggie La Mosca con Onda. So I drew her a bunch of Maggies and Puperts and she liked them a lot.
My uncle Adrian again. I like how these watercolors turned out.
Here's a friend of my mom's Beatriz.
And her husband Raul.
Here's another one done from memory of a girl at a restaurant. I like how it turned out, but I don't know exactly what she's doing with her hand.
And finally here's another of Maria Sol gulping down a Submarino after school. A Submarino is basically chocolate milk, but they serve you hot milk and some chocolate bars, and you mix them together. You can get them almost everywhere. The don't make ones with soy milk, but I remember them being exquisite went I was there 10 years ago.