Penguins Of Madagascar

Before I was even a student of Animation, Madagascar was one of the most visually stunning CG films I've ever seen. The designs were so graphic and solid and full of appeal. Years later I was lucky to join the talented team of Artist at PDI/Dreamworks on the production of Penguins of Madagascar. 

The film was already well into development when I joined, but as always there was plenty to do. It was a crazy ride, and here is some of the work I got to contribute to this fun movie!

One of my favorite assignments was working on Dave's (the octopus) flashback. We played with many different ideas for how to portray this moment. These are some of later explorations. After I was already off the film, my friend and fellow artist Carlos took some of these ideas and pushed them forward to the beautiful keys that were the final images.  

More to come!

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.