So, it's been a little while since I've posted anything, and this is why. My portfolio is finally online. I've been working like crazy to get this going and it's up and running as of this morning.
This is great because now I can use my blog for some quicker posts and more loose work and keep my final work for my site.
Check it out at www.jdgportfolio.com and let me know what you think.
These designs were done for Monstroville created by Viktor Von Kreep (aka: O'Neal Pignani), And headed up by Miah Alcorn. Lots of other great people on this as well. Make sure you head on over to the site and check it out. Some of these are over there as well but hey, I want to put em here too!
Lots more to come...
Here's an old Gerald McBoing Boing design I did for season 1 of the show. I re-framed it though to make the trees more intimidating. I always liked the simplicity of it and am glad to have finally painted it up. I definitely didn't follow the paint style for the show, but I'm really happy with how it turned out.
I'm a little slow on posting these days, due to the fact that I'm doing some design work for a project called Monstroville. Very cool stuff, be sure to check out the production diary Blog, all sorts of cool people involved in this...
I will also be posting work for Monstroville over there.
Here' the second of my designs that I've recently painted to reflect more what I had in mind while drawing it. It needed to be HOT. This definitely feels warmer.
It's funny, seeing my work in a sort of sequence makes me realize that I was definitely in a "warm" mood for a while. I'll have to switch it up a bit...
Well, I have to say... For a guy who's made his career doing Location Design and Layout I am thoroughly enjoying my foray into Characters. This guy's a part of an idea that's been in my head for a bit and I've been meaning to finish him for a while, but couldn't quite decide when he was done. I really want to throw a BG behind him, but I'd rather focus on some more character stuff for now. Maybe later.
More to come...
So, continuing in the vein of painting some of the locations I designed for Jimmy, here's my coloured version of the Miseryville Meadow . I don't remember the episode it was originally in, but overall I'm happy with the warmth and simplicity of it.
Here are a couple of rough designs I did for Jimmy Two-Shoes. Thanks to Kyle for the sketch of Lucy for the Misery Emporium location.
Those in the know will catch the homage to some early Jimmy designs by Steve Lambe in the Creepy Old House design. I had a great time doing the Locations on this project and I am dying to paint some of these bad boys.
Soon...
Alright, so most of the last year has been spent working on and lovingly caressing Jimmy Two-Shoes. Created by Sean Scott, and slaved over by countless fantastic animators and artists. Of course my input was on the Design front and I was lucky enough to be joined by the beautifully moustachioed Kyle Marshall and Darren Ward. (...Only Kyle had a moustache though.) Check out their Blogs BTW. Now, location design is creative enough on it's own, but thanks to the persistence of Sean Scott and Jeff Barker I was able to dabble and later jump right into the colour end of things. I owe a lot to them. Any way, enough blather. Needless to say it was a very satisfying experience. Here are some colour thumbs I did during pre-production...
