Monday, March 31, 2014

Peabody Art part 3


I really enjoyed working on this one. I had the the first and last stages of baby Sherman and older Sherman, designed by the our great Art Director Tim Lamb. My assignment was to figure out how the middle stages of the toddler and younger Sherman would look like. it was a great exercise in proportions and design where I had to learn how to age a character. 




I spent a lot of time in Egypt on this show. These are some keys, and prop pages from this sequence.











Monday, March 24, 2014

Peabody Art part 2

Here are some color keys I did for the Troy sequence in Mr. Peabody and Sherman. I must say it's probably one of my favorite sequences in the film.
*All images are copyright Dreamworks Animation






Designing characters and caricaturing are two of my favorite thing. Peabody and Sherman has some great designs in it based on historical figures, and I was lucky to work on some of those characters. 


Confucius




Alexander Fleming



Amelia Rinehart


Galileo Galilei


Designing the cakes for Mary Antoinette's party was a lot of fun. It was not easy staring at beautiful dessert reference for a few weeks, but it was all worth it when the studio actually baked a REAL cake following the design, for the wrap party. mmmm...cake...















Monday, March 17, 2014

Peabody Art part 1

7 years ago, I moved to the states to start animation school, with the hope of one day I'll be working as an artist on a feature film. at the time it seemed like a far away dream. A couple of weeks ago the film Peabody and Sherman came out!
I am very honored to have worked on this film with an amazing team of artists, and couldn't be more happy to see it finished on the big screen!





When the first Mr. Peabody and Sherman trailer came out
I was really excited to send it to my parents.
I wanted to see their real-time reaction


After months that I couldn't show them anything,
they were anxious to see what I've been working on


They were really excited!


And full of pride!


But my Mom didn't fail, and being a good Jewish Mom, the pride immediately transformed into guilt:

"Now... tell me EXACTLY what did YOU work on!!"




So here it is!! some of my development work on Mr. Peabody and Sherman. More to come!!
(All artwork below in this post,  is copyright Dreamworks Animation)







I spent a lot of time working on Designs for the Da vinci workshop. it was super fun adding all the tiny details to his inventions and notes.






Some development keys for the Troy sequence. The final  sequence ended up playing a little differently/




The Trojan horse was one of the most fun props to work on. I developed it with the amazing Bryan LaShelle



The best part was when we built an actual one!! it had a secret compartment to store a cooler, and served as a beer cart that was going around the studio on Friday to treat all the artist working long hours in the weeks of production.