Team Zissou & The Princess Aurora

Here's a post about two of my favorite films. Last week we went to Disneyland and I got a picture with my favorite princess from one of my favorite Disney films - Princess Aurora. I dunno, I think I like her animated better.... and I don't remember asking her to make that strange arm gesture.


Also, a couple of months ago, I became obsessed with finding some authentic Team Zissou shoes from my favorite Wes Anderson film, "The Life Aquatic." I quickly realized -THAT was not gonna happen and decided to make my own. Finding any Adidas ROMS at a decent price is impossible, so I settled for ITALIAS, and with very little altering, came up with my own. I made a pair for Pam for Christmas too, I think they turned out pretty good.

Righteous! Music

Here are some audio files to enjoy from the new Righteous! Game as recorded by The Bryan Beach Quartet. I arranged some jazzy numbers based on a few LDS primary tunes as well as writing some original content for the main menus of the game's DVD.

1. B.O.M. Stories

2. Nephi's Courage

3. Search & Samba

4. Bachelor Dad

Righteous!

In May of 2006 my friend/co-worker Dave Thompson and I concepted and designed a DVD board game similar to that of Scene It. Ours is an LDS themed game based on The Book of Mormon. We were able to license it to Deseret Book and a year and a half later it is finally on the store shelves. - or rather - will be on Monday Oct. 22 2007.

We're of course excited to see some fruits of our labor. The concept was basically Dave's idea that I ran with. There's an adjustable game board, game pieces, dice, cards, and of course, a DVD. The DVD has music, animation, picture puzzles, animated word puzzles, etc. etc. This was a huge undertaking for the two of us, especially considering there's no guarantee the game will sell well. But I had a lot of fun developing and creating aspects of the game.

I illustrated/designed the box, game board, characters, cards, and all of the illustrations for the DVD puzzles. I composed and recorded the theme music for the DVD, playing all instruments and arranging LDS Primary standards in a jazz combo style. And I even did a bit of character animation of the Nephi cartoon in the main menu. Animation is definitely not my forte, but it was fun to do a little of it. Here's a little Low-Res sample of the DVD menu:



Dave concepted most of the interactive DVD games as well as programmed and designed them. He did all of the effects and 3D animation. He and his wife, Natali, wrote and figured out all of the DVD questions, and he designed all of the DVD menus and how the DVD would actually work (that was a headache).

We even got Pam to record the music for the "Name that tune" section and her brother-in-law Mike Moore to write all of the questions for the cards (no easy task). They all did a really awesome and top notch job!

Anyway, the game will be on sale on Monday in any Deseret Book brick and mortar store for about $35. It has already been on sale through their website for the past month or so and think they're offering it for %15 off.

Here is some of the artwork and multimedia I did for it:





The company we formed is Peculiar People, here is the logo I designed - Yes - that's me and Dave respectively.

Take that Wells Fargo!

Circles & Squares Animation is working with Mark Swan Animation on a commercial for a local St. George Bank. They're doing a little spoof on Wells Fargo and I got to design the western backgrounds and stage coach. This was a lot of fun. It'll be exciting to see the finished animation.

Something for a Friend

Here's the latest article I illustrated for the Friend Magazine.

The Secret Evening

Here's a series of pieces I started called "Secret Evening," there's actually supposed to be 10 pieces, but I only managed to finish 7 before something else came up.......so I guess it's a cliffhanger.

These ones are entitled: The Players, The Plan Hatch, The Crime, The Interruption, The Briefing, The Counter Attack & The Confrontation.

More Pig Places

I've been working on a bunch more backgrounds for the second season of Pig Tales lately. These are from an episode called "RobinHog."