BUFU

Though I was probably lower on the list of at-the-time unavailable comrades, Chris from Oddbot called me to help fancy-up an animatic George was working on so Orlando Jones could pitch his IP "Bufu" around town. If I recall correctly, Robert directed.

It was only two weeks, but it was fun, and I was given a lot of freedom.






I've heard that this show eventually got picked up, and may have actually aired.

Girl from Cherry 7up Commercial

Those few who may have seen my youtube account may have wondered why I have a 7up commercial with Matt Le Blanc saved there. Granted, I find Matt super dreamy and who wouldn't want to have a thousand of his babies? Despite my homoerotic proclivities, real or imagined, I have the commercial saved however, for a different reason altogether. For some reason, a little 11 year old Daves found the girl in it to be quite "Fly" or perhaps "Def" and decided to tape it with his vuus™ so he could make the following drawRing...

Oh wow!. I suppose that the line between a cute, babyfat enhanced teenage jawline and Down's syndrome was too fine a line for little 11 year old Daves. It took a lot of restraint not to photoshop the heck out of this, grr, the mile high ear, the Doherty eyes, the gill, the hair made of black licorice... & why did I leave the headband out? Perhaps I'm too rough on 11 year old Daves? Maybe take my time machine to 1986 and give him a Tab soda (ouch!)

Hey hey! Though I still feel like I have yet to break the 'champ' against the bow of this blog I thought I'd post this real quick anyways. One of these weekends I'll post a decent cross section of stuff I've done over the years. Till then, I'm eager to post these real quick:

These are for a Weird Al video that my comrades at Jibjab and I got to create. I was eager to post this because A) it's Weird Al, and Weird Al is cool. and B) I was pleasantly surprised by the results though I started this piece without "seeing it". To explain, I was given the biker bar interiors for this video. Here's the thing though, when I start an illustration or a series of illustrations (and this may sound pretentious, but excuse it here, as infer-able pomp is not the point) sometimes I just "see it" and it's a matter of executing it. Often I don't, I have no ideas, no 'vision' for the image(s) and those tasks always weigh on you like a sack of rocks. This project was one of those, and it accidentally came out exceeding my hopes. Not to say it's 'all that', only that I was stoked it came out this ..'ok'.

Here's a link to the whole video, check it out as it honestly is one of the funniest and most visually fun pieces I've ever been even a small part of...

http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/weird_al_charles_nelson_reilly

Cheers.

Why not?

Thought I'd make a blog as an easy to find hub of the non-sense that I'm up to at the moment. Here is a collection of many of the photo-collage "house style" Jibjab 'Starring You' Sendables that I have been working on...

The Idea with these is to "cast" yourself, a friend or family member as the people in the illustration, and then use the image as an e-card or graphic for a hard-good such as a Coffee mug, printed card, poster etc. (they have a number of products, including a SKATEBOARD DECK!!)

Check out the finals at www.jibjab.com You would not believe how many layers the original PSDs have.

That's all for now, this post is just a kick off, more to come later. Cheers, - Dave