#visual developoment

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A color key I did for TMNT Mutant Mayhem. A moment from the car chase scene. Really tried to focus on simplification and nailing that blinding light from the oncoming cars. Working on this movie was so fun ya’ll

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Concept art I did for punk world in Across the Spiderverse. This got cut from the film but it was so fun to do. Jumping from style to style while working on this was challenging!

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Grocery props I did for TMNT Mutant Mayhem. I used to not love getting assigned props, I felt like I should be doing the “important” stuff or whatever, ego shit. But doing props is cruelly s joy and be be super readily in between bigger assignments. It can be nice giving 100% of your attention to a banana or some bok choy.

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Original Baxter stockman Basement painting by me. Loved making this. Early on this location played a bigger part in the story. We returned to it multiple times through out the old version of the film. Mondo gecko used to be held in a cage here. Baxter would buy stolen/illegal exotic animals to experiment on, There were story boards where Baxter exploded an alligator in the kiddy pool. We had kind of a weird amount of animal death in the old version 😂. There was also a beach boys needle drop. It was pretty tight actually. Can you find the Easter egg?

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An Early matte painting style target for tmnt mutant mayhem! i made this in mid 2021 I believe.

Enjoy the sunset!

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My designs for the TCRI motorcycle april steals in act 3. The top one is the final we went with. Tried to incorporate some classic 1987 tmnt tech language into the design. I also designed Jessica Drew’s motorcycle in Across the Spiderverse , so it’s a 2 for 2 motorcycle year for me. 🫡

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Baxter Stockman’s house. An early set design I did for TMNT Mutant Mayhem I went on a research trip to NYC with Garrett lee and woodrow white back in 2021. I spent about a day walking around Staten Island taking photos,that lead to me pitching it as the location for this set… And it stuck !! The old version of the story had way more scenes set here.

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Some buildings I designed in Earth 50101 Mumbattan for Across the Spider-Verse. The ink linework was based on classic Indian Indrajal comics. These buildings are also Modular using a system designed by Aymeric Kevin

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Designs I did for Jessica Drew’s motorcycle in Across the Spiderverse. The first one is the design that made it into the film! It went through the capable hands of a modeler and then to Will Coyner who did the siiiicckkk final paint. Jessica Drew’s design hadn’t been finalized at this point, her outfit, her ethnicity, if she was going to be pregnant or not was all up for grabs. So I took that opportunity to try my hand at drawing her as well. I wasn’t much of a character designer at that point so some of these are a little wonky. From what I remember the directors picked that first design because it felt heavy and aggressive. I had a lot of fun with these. Especially the second image which has the two wacky versions I pitched.

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A bunch of characters I did for the cut “turtles reveal themselves” montage in the old version of the film. This was early in production, Back then the turtles walk into highschool at the end of the first act with no plan and of course chaos ensues. FEMA, FBI, NYPD, Animal Control, etc showed up, the turtles got arrested, get tested and experimented on. They visit the white house. There are protests at nyc city hall with both people who love and hate the turtles lol. I did a bunch of ideas for pro and anti turtle protestors. Was looking at a lot of qanon rallies for reference lol. I tried to lean into them feeling like they were drawn with pencil and of course was riffing on what my friend and character designer woodrow white was doing

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TMNT MUTANT Mayhem prop dump!

1. April’s phone case

2. April Phone stickers

3. April’s Business card (cut)

4. Bebop’s Boombox

5. Bebop’s Boombox alt

6. Mondo Geckos’s Skateboard

7. Mondo skateboard Alts

8. Bowling alley Boxer game

9. Bowling alley jukebox

10. Bowling alley jukebox alt

Can you spot the reference?

Props can be super fun. It’s a great way to get in-stuck on a set. Design some props and get some wins on the board. Decorative Sketchy boarder by AD Arthur Fong.

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A huge batch of color keys i did for the mid credits high-school sequence in TMNT Mutant Mayhem, including some vertical phone ones. keys are a weird thing because they are sort of cobbled together from rough 3d and other artists paintings, lots of collaboration and recycling to increase efficiency

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A bunch of paintings i did for the old version of the TMNT Mutant Mayhem script. back when the turtles went to high-school near the end of act 1. There was a montage where the turtles just WALK IN to school and of course all of the agencies, FEMA, CIA, FBI, ATF, NYPD and Animal Control show up and capture them, they go to the white house, the pentagon, there is a protest at city hall, etc. These were all matte painting targets and helped develop the background style in this early stage

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I spent a about an hour this weekend rummaging through my hard drive to find all the props I did for The Mitchell’s vs The Machine… and I Found a Lot! Here is the first batch. Most of these are from an early camp site set that I designed which got fully built out in 3d as our first test environment but never made it into the film due to story changes. This was like, within my first 2 or 3 months on the movie. The last image is the fully 3D version of the cut campsite set. More props to come

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Shots from the new Across the Spider-verse Trailer! I worked on this movie for about 15 months as a Visual Development artist at the beginning of the pandemic. It was an incredibly challenging project for everybody involved. Very very stoked for everybody to see the final film. Get HYPED

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For those of you who don’t know, I’m teaching a class on Visdev with a focus on personal aesthetic growth in October this year vis Underpaint Academy! Signups for the Spectator option are still available! I’ll be going into detail about my experience and process working on games and Animated films such as TMNT Mutant Mayhem, Spider-man Across the Spider-verse and Mitchell’s vs the Machines! The class is 9 sessions, 4 hours each. we will also have guest lectures and critiques focused on specific assignment weeks (character design, set design and key frame. Come learn with us! We had a great time last class!