Go see CORALINE!!!

Well, I can't believe it's finally coming out. I moved to Portland on Jan.9, 2006 to work on Coraline. I loved Portland, I loved the crew and I am so proud that I got to work on this film.

Here's some stuff I did while I was there.




The blonde gal above is based on a woman I saw in downtown Portland. She came stomping out of a halfway house and was so furious she spit really hard on the sidewalk.

Now go see the movie. It comes out this Friday!!!

Puppets!

I've been insanely busy with work, but now that it's slowing down a bit, I thought I'd post something really cool.

I was walking around Comic Con this past weekend, and to my utter shock the Neca toy booth had the Coraline puppets on display!

Finally, people can see how amazing the fabrication crew on this film is (actually the whole crew is amazing)!

Anyway, thanks to these guys, I got to see my designs turned into amazingly, beautiful puppets. As anyone whose worked in animation knows, it's very rare that you get to a see design you created, make it faithfully into the final film. So, cheers to the puppet crew and to Henry Selick for giving me so much freedom.

Speaking of the amazing crew Shane Prigmore did the final Coraline design (based on Dan Krall's early drawings), Other Mother, as well as all the beautiful expressions for the replacements heads. Dan Krall designed the ghost boy.

I designed the blue guy, Mr.Bobinski.

CORALINE STUFF!!!

So, Laika has finally posted some animation from Coraline.  There are a lot of amazingly talented people working their butts off on this film and I can't wait to see more.  Check it out!

Moraline

Here's some more Coraline stuff.

Man, I've been busy!

Well, I haven't posted in a while... because I'm moving to PORTLAND! Yup, myself and some friends are working at Laika Entertainment on Henry Selick's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's CORALINE. I've been at the studio a week and all I can say is that Laika has some geniuses working up there! Anyway, until I get time do that drawing of Hawk from Buck Roger's for Ben Balistreri, here's some stuff I did for Foster's. I had a great time on that show and I'll miss it.