'Charllotte's Web'- Title Sequence visual development

Here are some samples of the visual development on the Opening Titles for the feature film, 'Charllotte's Web'

Kellogg's Morning Star Farms 'Artist'

Yellowshed: Todd & Soyeon created a commercial: Kellogg's Morning Star Farms' Veggiesodes series.

It was right between our move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, flying back and forth, trying to finish up all the businesses in Minnesota (I was still working on 'Make It Happen' PSA at Make and teaching at Ai-Minnesota) as well as selling the house in the bad housing market....

Well, it was definitely a challenge, but we made the transition all right.

More information: full credits & festival screenings of the spot can be found at yellowshed's blog

Kraft Illustration Pitch 1-Merry-Go-Round

Here are a series of spec artwork for the Kraft cheese pitch.

Kraft Illustration Pitch 2-Pop Up Book

Here is another spec work for the Kraft Cheese Product.

Kraft Illustration Pitch 3-Be My Valentine

Tang Illustration 'Orchard' & 'Fruit Dance'

Style frame & storyboard for the commercial pitch: Tang 'Magic Soccer' (Spec)

'Pushing Daisies' Opening Title pitch materials

Here are the style frame, boards & animatic for the pitch on the Opening Titles for the 'Pushing Daisies'. We didn't get the job, but we had fun coming up with the imagery & concept for the Titles of the show.

Disney's Safety Smart: episode 2 'Goes Green' & episode 3 'At the Water'

I worked on the second and third episodes of Disney's Safety Smart educational series that features Timon & Pumbaa characters from the Lion King.

My official credit is Art Director. I also worked as an animator, layout artist, prop designer and After Effects compositor.

Credits:

Production: Disney Educational Productions

Animation Production: Duck Studios

Director: Dave Bossert

Animation Director: Andrew Austin

Art Director: Soyeon Kim, Frank Montagna

Technical Director: Todd Hemker

Full credits: imdb listing

Official site

Our Starbucks cards

I recently discovered that you can create custom pre-paid cards by mixing and matching some illustration elements in the Starbucks website. Here are two cards that I assembled, one for Todd, and one for myself above.  I wish... I could put both of us in the same card with my pups... just like this below... : )

Pictsweet 'Pictopia' Pitch materials

This is a pitch material (spec work) for Pictsweet's Steamables product.

Disney's 'Toy Story Musical' 2008

I worked as a video artist on Disney's "Toy Story-The Musical", theatrical musical show that had its debut in Disney's Cruise Line in Florida, back in 2008 Spring. 

I went on cruise for rehearsal, but haven't actually seen the final show yet. I was told that the show has been so successful and  will also launch in Disneyland. Yeah!

You can see the show video footage via youtube. (link to part 1 out of total 7 parts)

It is not probably as exciting as what you can experience in the theatre, but hopefully I get to see the real show soon in LA.

The set was amazing: many shots were based on toys' point of view, so all objects in the room are in gigantic scale... I had a lot of fun looking at the set and how things are integrated among each others as well as with actors/actresses.

Video was used in two projection screens: front & rear.

It is used as set backdrop images, for camera panning in scenery changes, and transitions among shots...

Video animation production was done in Duck studio.

3D artist created elements that match the art direction of the original Toy Story movie, and video was composited in After Effects for the set to be integrated with actors and stage props.

It was very fun to see how flat video images on two layers of screen can create so much depth on the stage.

The making of Toy Story-The Musical

Disney's Safety Smart 'At Home' 2008

I have worked on Disney's educational animation 'Timon and Pumbaa's Safety Smart' series. The first episode is 'At Home' 11 minute animation featuring Timon and Pumbaa from Disney's Lion King feature. My official credit is Art Director. I also animated Timon & Pumbaa in the title sequence and several shots during the movie, designed props, created layout drawings and painted backgrounds, as well as composited shots in After Effects.

I art directed the second spot, 'Goes Green' as well, which was complete at the end of 2008, and am currently working on the third episode 'At Water'.

Credits:

Production: Disney Educational Productions

Animation production: Duck Studio

Director: Dave Bossert

Animation Director: Andrew Austin

Art Director: Soyeon Kim, Dee Farnworth

Technical Director: Todd Hemker

Full credits

imdb listing

official site