Transition Period

As I'm currently transitioning over to my new digs at Jibo, I thought it'd be fitting to post a bunch of transition and loading animations I've made over the past 5 years. I've worked on so many of these, from Scholastic to PBS to Sesame Street, and it's been a consistently rewarding challenge. I don't think most people go to school for animation hoping to animate loading screens, but these were some of the most fun things I made.


CloudKid was pretty much a dream job, and I couldn't be more grateful to spend all my years straight out of school working with such a talented group of people. It was a lot of work and a lot of jumping into the deep end and we made so much stuff, but I learned more there than I did in all my years of school. As 2016 rings in the year of Jibo, I just want to say thanks to CloudKid - for hiring me, for trusting me, for pushing me to do new and incredible things. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for them.

So to any CloudKids who ever read this, thanks. See you on the flipside.

happy holidays

Took a holiday card to pull me out of a creative hiatus. Maybe next year I'll remember to draw more... or at all.

In case you haven't heard, CloudKid is closing its doors and a few of us will be moving over to Jibo starting in the new year. 2016 is gonna be interesting, folks. But you'll never know about it, judging by the frequency of updates to this blog.



Also in the last five months since I updated, we launched the new website for PBS's Nature Cat series. This project was a huge endeavor and hopefully we did the show proud. The voice talent includes a handful of SNL cast members, so if any of them ever play one of the web games, then it was all worth it.

Dinosaur Day Care!

CloudKid's latest project is now out! We just finished up Ernie's Dinosaur Day Care, which I'm super proud of - it's one of the more unique games we've made for Sesame and I had the privilege of directing this project. Also, dinosaurs jumping rope was something I never knew I needed in my life until this game came along.

In other news, here's a doodle of Crash Bandicoot.

Earth To Allen!

CloudKid's short Earth To Allen has finally landed on Nick.com! So many amazing people with amazing talent worked on this - I had the honor of doing a few designs here and there, but the backgrounds are truly insane and the animation is out of this world, pun shamelessly intended.

Bonus Link: don't miss our other Nickelodeon short, BroDuel!

February

Still going strong with the daily doodles... here're some favorites from February.

In other news, our newest Sesame game is out. I directed this one too; I'm spending a lot of quality time with Sesame Street these days. Still can't tell you how to get there, though.

Signal Boosts

Spoilers: This post is gonna have a lot of plugs to work I've been involved in! Been pretty busy over at CloudKid these days - we recently launched a new Fizzy game, Fizzy's Food Truck; below are some concepty things I did early on. On top of Fizzy stuff, we also updated Peg+Cat's Big Gig app with a ton of new [adorable] features and launched Astro Blast's Rocket Rush. Lots of great people worked on these projects, kudos!

Also, my buddy Chris has been churning out some great game music covers over on his YouTube channel, and I threw together a little drawing for him for his latest track. Throw him a like or sub if you enjoy what you hear :)

Chicks Bouncing

The safe for work kind.

Grover's Winter Games

Olympic season's upon us, and Sesame Street's launch of Grover's Winter Games is probably no coincidence. Incidentally, I also directed this game as my first foray into leadership on an interactive project and in life. Check it out. Tell your kids. You don't have to tell your friends, unless they are small children as well. Or huge fans of Grover in colorful winter attire.

Nimbus Concepts

Digging through some files, came across these Negative Nimbus concept doodles from a trillion years ago.

Also, this UFO omg:

Peg + Cat

     

Meet Peg + Cat, the stars of the transmedia PBS property we've been working on at CloudKid for the past year or so - if you need a refresher course in preschool math, these two'll do you right. Or, like, if you have small kids who like PBS shows, that would work too. I got a chance to work a lot on the interactive side of things, so be sure to check out the games and revel in their amazingness.

Romotive in Space

Recently, CloudKid got a chance to work with the guys over at Romotive, helping with some design and animation for their Romo rover - I got a chance to design a background for the project.

SPAAAACE.