Helicopter

A spread I illustrated in a Random House Step-into-Reading book, featuring the Dinoco helicopter.

Rockwell's pirate

A tight line drawing, based on a favorite painting by Norman Rockwell.

Student film - Matterhorn

One of my student films, from 20 years ago. I'd love to finish animating it someday; a good majority of it is still storyboards, and the sound and video quality is poor. I just wanted to make a fun tribute to my favorite thrill ride - the only one both conceived of and ridden by Walt himself, back in 1959. The Abominable Snowmonster, added in 1979, was nicknamed "Harold" by the Cast Members. 

This is sort of a "what if..." type of thing.

Caricatures in color

Here are a couple of caricatures that I managed to photocopy after having gone over them with colored pencils.

Trevor T. - clean-up. Big "Braveheart" fan, hailing from Vancouver. 

Jason P. - clean-up, Florida Studio 

More caricatures

Yet more caricatures from the "Fantasia/2000" days in Glendale...

David L. - assoc. producer

Cindy B. - clean-up

Vince S. - clean-up

Dan B. - clean-up

Bobsleddin'

This is an illustration I did for fun back in 2001, probably during or right after work on "Lilo and Stitch". The Matterhorn's always been my favorite thrill ride. I was actually doing a 3D drawing (the old red/blue glasses thing), and decided to just color it in with Prismacolor pencils. I had no clue at the time that, in about six years, I'd get the chance to draw characters for theme park merchandise, with some of the best artists and designers in the business.

More caricatures

Here are some more caricatures done during production of "Fantasia/2000"...

John P. - animation

Larry F. - clean-up

Jim C. - story

Eric S.

Don E. - Producer

Last drawing at WDFAF

It was about this time, ten years ago, that I did my last official drawing at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida as it was closing; it was for "The Little Matchgirl", a beautiful if heartbreaking musical short intended for inclusion in a Fantasia sequel. It's one of the five Hans Christian Andersen classics that Disney has depicted in animation, the others being "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Mermaid", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" and "Frozen" (based on "The Snow Queen").

Along with a little Mickey, I wrote along the bottom: "Thanks to God for the blessings of a ten-year career at Disney - my dream came true every day."

Caricatures

One of the joys of working in a creative environment is caricaturing your coworkers - usually this involves adhering a copy to a white board, and everyone signs around it for the subject's birthday or special occasion. Most of these here are from my earliest years at Disney, working on "Fantasia/2000".

This was for Roy after his knee operation.

Gabrielle

Todd

Can't recall who this was for - I believe this was an acquaintance of the director

Mike and Donnie

Victoria

Beth

Naila

Larry