As required by the application process for the Vector Animation Development Project I have posted this storyboard for the "Strike" animation sequence. This storyboard ties into the proposed jungle theme I have detailed in my application email sent to Brunswick Bowling and Billiards. But to recap, the following is an excerpt from the application email explaining the setting and background story:

It is a typical sweltering day in the jungle, and the monkeys are hot and thirsty. But the stream they go to cool off and have fun swimming in has been plugged up with logs by a mean ol’ tiger hording all the water for himself. The monkeys enlist the help of a big lumbering rhinoceros to unplug the stream. It is up to the bowlers to help the Rhino smash through the blockade and save the stream with high scores and strikes. The better the score the more damage is done with strikes bringing down the logs and washing the tiger away. Gutter balls result in the monkeys sighing in collective disappointment with tiger laughing in glee. But the more damage is done to the blockage the more the monkeys cheer and root the players on. This concept falls square in the heart of the jungle theme sought by the client while providing a since of engagement for the players.

Ratz, provides some inspiration

This website promoting a french animated television series titled "Ratz" has a real fun look to it and might be a style worth considering for the the Brunswick animation project.

Show's official website:

http://www.ratzlaserie.com/

Youtube video of one of the show's episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9fxQR2xgq8

The simplicity, bright colors, and overly exaggerated character design would provide some great eye candy perfect for the 8-12 year old demographic Brunswick wishes to target. From a production standpoint, something like this would be easily doable in flash alone reducing steps in the workflow saving time and expense.

Breathless

This storyboard is based on a script for a 30 second public service television commercial advertising the charitable services of Bridgeport Rescue Mission. Its purpose is helping people facing overwhelming debt and financial ruination due to a catastrophic loss in a household.

Don and Charlie Storyboard

This is a storyboard I developed from the opening scenes a comical Animation script staring Don and Charlie, two transient dogs looking for a place to eat. The story and script was written by Brad Yarhouse

Keep the Class Leave the Room

This animated public service ad was produced by a team of animators consisting of myself and 4 others.

Application Reel for 2008 KAFE animation challange

The Last Fantaran

This is an animation concept I created targeting the 7-14 year age group.

Candylicious

Candylicious was a team collaboration by Adam Pecar and yours truely. This animation stars a mischievous raccoon that bit off more than he could chew.

This digital illustration was completed for a project I was hired to do for a new construction consulting firm known as Hard Hat Oasis. This work featuring interchangeable billboards and banner allows the client to insert text and imagery tailored for their printed new letters website and other media.

This was some quick thumbnail sketches of a story I was working on about a kid trying to find himself in the mist of a seemingly oppressive world.

I felt evil the day I spawned this sketch.

This piece executed in carcoal is a of one of my former life drawing instructors. This is still one of my favorite pieces I've done.

At about 20 x 40 in in size this is by far my largest digital art project I've ever done. This is a highly stylized portrait of my Russian Blue cat Xavier.

After looking at some poster sized Native American prints at a shop just north of Petosky, MI, I was taken aback at the hundreds of dollars they cost. So instead of forking over large amonts of cash to buy the art. I put my own art skills to use to create this digital illustration in a similar style I saw at the shop. Cost: 20 bucks for a pack of 13 x 19 photo paper and about 20 megabytes of space on my hardrive. I can live with that.

This oil on illustration board is a rendering of two tigers that were on display at John Ball Park Zoo, Grand Rapids, MI

This is a book cover illustration and layout exercise aimed at the children 3-8 demographic.

Brunswick Project

Hello there.

I have setup this blog site for the explicit purpose of applying for the internship position offered by Brunswick. The objective of the position is to create 2 minutes of animated sequences for the new Vector Line of electronic bowling score boards. This site contains my portfolio and concepts as required by the application process. I hope you will find my work and my ideas compatible and synergistic with the user experience intended for the Score Board system to provide to bowlers.