TWO TIME ANNIE AWARD NOMINEE - OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION in an animated TV series.

I directed the look of DUCK DODGERS for 2 seasons (26 half-hour episodes) for the creative tag team of SPIKE BRANT and TONY CERVONE.  The hilarious Ted Blackman art directed props and layouts while I drafted and art directed some of the best painters in Hollywood toward the final look of the show. And we used REAL PAINT much to the chagrin of our production studio in Korea. How many shows left are using real paint i wonder?

You will notice that every key will have a single basic color dominate.  Olive or teal or rust etc.. I wanted a clean, posterized, graphic quality that would compliment the characters without excessive hues that could distract. A background is a background after all.

This was my third Annie Award nomination... without a win. No shame in losing to the insanely beautiful Samurai Jack tho.  I'd even voted for them.

I worked with a lot of awesome artists on DODGERS but i doled out the lions share of the paintings to these magnificent bastards; Dennis Durrell, Steven Nicodemus, Joel Perod, Eric Semones and my head of background on IRON GIANT the lovely and talented Dennis Venizelos. Thank you guys again!

Here are some of the beauties my team came up with...

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