True lies was a action spy comedy on CBS which regretably got cancelled after its one season. It was a blast to work on, although one of the most challenging shows I’ve done, with tons of cool graphics, like renderings, interesting props, and a whole boat-load of tac vans.
I got to work on Fox television’s “Monarch” TV series about a family of country music legends as secrets and drama unfolds. Although regrettably cancelled, it featured some fantastic original songs and covers interspersed throughout, performed by the cast of talented musicians and singers, including Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins, Anna Friel and others. There were lots of interesting things to work on especially including lots of renderings and previz to help sell the stage setups and motion graphics.
Growing up I have long been a fan of musicals, and I couldn’t have been more excited to join the art dept of an excellent one starring Ben Platt, with songs by Pasek and Paul. It was an amazing experience with a truly great art dept, and I couldn’t have been happier with the results. I ‘ve posted some selections here, but as always there’s more behind the scenes that didn’t make it in!
A year ago I had the pleasure of working with some talented Graphic designers on a few side-projects for various networks. Although it wasn’t for very long in each instance, I had a blast and got to make some interesting work! I’ve included a bunch of portfolio items from each below!
Got to work with the excellent Jeff Sage again on this Melissa McCarthy film, originally slated for a fall 2019 release, but ended up coming out Nov 2020. A romantic comedy about a super intelligent general AI trying to understand the upside about humanity. Very fun film with some beautiful sets.
Trying something different here. I thought I’d just include a smattering of graphics from the project to show the breadth of the project, rather than organizing by type of item. The Film Irresistible was great fun to work on and the script was very funny. I was very proud of my work on it and I was glad to meet Jon Stewart who was essentially the news, back when I was in college.
I was lucky enough to get to do the design concept for the “SHIVA” weapon, which was features and used heavily throughout the first half of MacGyver Season 4. It was a fictional weapon designed by Nicola Tesla himself, designed as a super-weapon that could stop war. The idea was that it was some kind of turret gun/tesla coil mashup so I ran with those ideas to make some interesting shapes that would look cool and intricate from various angles and got the concept together in about a day. Shout out to Katie Wheelock for creating the sketchup model/construction drawings and designing the control panel! Also shout out to the amazing construction team on Macgyver for building the thing, which included coiling copper wires around tubes for hours. Thanks a ton!
The producers wanted something that recalled the Drew Struzen-esque movie posters from the eighties, especially those inspired by Riply from the film Alien. I had to create a fictional strong female character for an imaginary film. unfortuantely we only had a day to finalize the artwork, so there was a bit of a scramble, but the end result turned out great and was highly featured!
As one might imagine, Macgyver, Season 4 was absolutely loaded with fictional products that needed custom skins. Here’s a selection of some of them.
Over the years I’ve done loads of news papers and inserts for various shows. As we move into the modern world, newspapers have become less and less frequent, but for vintage or period pieces, newspapers are ubiquitous.
