Cartoon Network Animation Academy

 I was contacted by TBWA/RAAD to design and illustrate characters to appear
on a series of advertisements for Cartoon Network's Animation Academy.

The characters are in three separate groups (humans, monsters and superheroes)
and all are in unfinished states, bored and waiting to be completed by animators at the school.

Character development and exploration below the ads.

 

The Twelve Burps of Christmas!

The Twelve Burps of Christmas

George Brown, Class Clown's First Super Special! 

Green burp juice on Santa's beard, ugly Christmas sweaters, embarrassing holiday decoration destruction all in the latest George Brown book!

Synopsis-

"In the first Super Special of Nancy Krulik's popular series, George stars in two stories! Between the class play and his old best friend's surprise visit, the Christmas celebrations are shaping up to be a season of fun! But of course the magic burps--an even dozen of them--put a crazy spin on all his plans. If only Santa could leave George a cure for burps under the tree!"

Buy it online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or IndieBound.

A few fun festive spreads-

Dracola- RC Cola Halloween

Dracola! Special-edition, glow in the dark, blood-red Halloween label for RC Cola UK.

At Asda stores throughout England. Or order online HERE.  

O.D.H.O.R

Introducing the stinky agents of...

Over-the Hill Disgruntled Henchmen Organization Reunion (O.D.H.O.R.)

All of your favorite evil underlings from 80s TV shows, all together in one place, complaining about their demanding bosses and annoying goody-two-shoes enemies. 

For the upcoming Strange Kid Club's Strange Kid Comix Magazine - Issue #3

Pocket God- The Perfect Swarm

"The Perfect Swarm"

Here's a new poster I've illustrated for the popular "Pocket God" iOS game. This episode is titled "The Perfect Swarm" and is a 2012 Apocalypse themed update. More from the Bolt Creative blog-

Episode 44 introduces a new room inside the temple’s Chamber of Time, and it’s truly yucky and weird! Once you go inside, an enormously disgusting Locust Queen awaits who can birth to a swarm of locusts, as long as she is given sustenance. And you probably know what that food is.

 With this episode, there's also a cool Mondo expansion pack to decorate your islands in nerdy fashion- designed by friend and awesome illustrator Josh Ellingson. Read more about the update at Bolt Creative's website.

Bolt Creative also asked if I had any ideas for Pygmy locust related deaths.  

Here's my two death concepts- both are in the game-

 

 

Poster Design thumbnails-

Locust Queen Final Design Pencils-

Locust Queen In-game Concepts-

 

 "The Perfect Swarm" trailer-

 

Speedo Sea Squad

Sea Squad Assemble! 

For the last few years, I've been designing, illustrating and animating

a re-branding project for Speedo "Learn to Swim" children's product range. 

The five Sea Squad characters appear on swimming suits, pool products, packaging, in-store advertising, online game and website.

See more here-

Speedo Sea Squad website
 

Battle the evil Dr. Kittycrab and his nasty minions in-

Attack of the Robofish game
  
The Speedo Sea Squad website, packaging and logo design
by the talented crew at The Late Night Salon

Action Pose!

Sea Squad buddies

In-store characters in Asia

Swim Toys and Accessories Packaging

Learn to Swim Products and Toys

Evil Robofish

Attack of the Robofish game background

Attack of the Robofish game background 02

Website

New Year! New Work! New Website!

New website design is up with new work!

monstersquid.com

Giant Nostrils and Burp Boxes!

The Burp Box

There's been two new belchy releases in the George Brown, Class Clown world recently! 

First out is the noisy Burp Box! It's the first George Brown box set containing books one to four. Plus there's a button on the box that unleashes a super burp sound effect to help with your reading.

Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 

Help! I'm Stuck in a Giant Nostril! Cover

 Next out is book six in the series- Help! I'm Stuck in a Giant Nostril! It's my favorite cover so far and it was lots of fun drawing up moldy toes and dripping noses. The book bio- 

Despite George's best efforts to rid himself of the curse of the burps, those magical and pesky belches are still following him everywhere he goes - even on his class trip to the science museum. If circulating through a human heart or sliding down the nostril of a giant nose sound wild, just wait until the burps attack!

Find out more at the George Brown, Class Clown website. 

Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

 Spreads from the book-

 

 All six George Brown, Class Clown covers (so far) -

Planet of the Living Dead

I was asked by the guys at Pocket God to illustrate a poster for the new episode of Pocket God- Journey to Uranus (the spin off from the popular iPhone/iPod/iEtc app). The new episode is titled Planet of the Living Dead- featuring undead zombie pygmies... in spaaaace! I love the game so jumped at the chance to work with them on this and future updates.

Full poster/splash screen-

In case you've never heard of Pocket God- here's some game play of the new episode.



Poster sketch-

The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless

Warning! Beware! Danger! Caution!

The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless- the new book series I'm illustrating is out on evil shelves now! I'm so thrilled to be working on this fun and funny series written by Allan Woodrow and published by Harper Collins.

Zachary Ruthless is a ten year old boy determined to become the next big super villain. Along with his henchman, Newt, they set out to turn Plentyville's mayor into a zombie and make him do their evil bidding. They hope to be inducted into S.O.U.R.B.A.L.L.S.- the evil society of super villains, led by Mr. Maniacal.

Learn more about Zachary Ruthless, tremble at the Rogues Gallery, and browse the shop at Evilbadguystuff.com (the number one evil gadget web site on the planet, and probably the universe). There's a super villain posted very month so keep checking the site. This month- Knock Knock (The Joker's third cousin, once removed)!

You can buy the book at these places-
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Borders
Indie Bound

The next book - The Stench of Goodness is out later this year.

Cover for Book 1

Zombie Laser

Evil Blimp Headquarters for S.O.U.R.B.A.L.L.S.