Artwork
A sample of art from my films - that got better because of the designers I was lucky to work with as the years went by...
No art school for me - I was a journalism major in college. I drew hundrteds of cartoons for the school paper. That's how I got into cartoons in motion...
This is a model of one of the RAID bugs that I animated at SPUNGBUGGY WORKS in Hollywood,.
I did a lot of funny characters in ANIMALYMPICS, including the bobsledding Calamari Brothers. You can watch this sequence on YOUTUBE!
So lucky to have the great Mike Giaimo design our commercial for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes! It was called INTERMISSION, one of the ads we did at Kroyer Films.
Rich Moore and Eric Stefani did the design work on the title sequence for HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS.
A cel from HONEY. The entire BG was animated by computer - that's why it is also a painted cel.
Some character idea sketches for HONEY.
A character design sketch for
our titles for SON OF THE PINK PANTHER
John Kricfalusi brought his distinctive design style to our titles for TROOP BEVERLY HILLS.
Here's the painted cel of that drawing.
Another cel set up from TROOP BEVERLY HILLS.
Can't really take any credit for this design!! It predated our assignment to do the animation for MICKEY'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY TV special.
The seductive egg from our Disney World film THE MAKING OF ME.
The MAKING OF ME, where we animated dozens of little sperm guys, was affectionately called "The Sperm Film".
And he got the egg!
The existence, and success, of Kroyer Films was because of our short TECHNOLOGICAL THREAT, designed by Rich Moore, possible because of CG software by Tim Heidmann.
Everything we did at Kroyer Films led to our greatest achievement, FERNGULLY, THE LAST RAINFOREST.
An early set-up of the Beatle Boys riding their CG-anmated beatles.
A color model mark-up showing hoiw many colors it took to paint one cel of Batty Koda.
Tony Fucile's very early sketches of Crysta - which ended being the final design.
The beautiful art direction of FERNGULLY was the work of the incomparable Ralph Eggleston.
Ralph did hundreds of these exquisite pastel paintings to guide the painters.
Another Ralph pastel...
Amazing to note that these pastels that Ralph created were tiny - this one was six inches wide.
This Ralph pastel evolved into the movie poster!
Ralph Eggleston revived the idea of the COLOR SCRIPT while designing FERNGULLY. The Color Script has thumbnail images that contain minimal detail but the complete color pallette for each sequence. You can watch the mood of the movie progress in a simple way. Ralph continued this practice on his PIXAR films. Color Scripts are now standard practice in animated fearures.
Phil Mendez cranked out some very charming ideas for FERNGULLY faeries..
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