Frosty the Snowmonster (a holiday greeting)

An animated holiday card I created this year. This is different than the sketch below. I saw Frosty the Snowman the other day, and thought how scary is it to have a magic hat that indiscriminately brings things to life? It would make a better horror movie than christmas special!

A.D.D. Jane is Channel F's Cartoon of Month

Jane is the champion! For November anyway. I actually didn't even know they were running a contest, but Jane'll take it! She likes to win. Anyway, I'm honored considering all the great work that was submitted. Thanks Fred!

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Green Images

Some images from a current project "Organic Living with the Greens"... which I wrote, designed and am animating for Pottery Barn. I post the storyboard HERE

Winter Animation Idea

Frederator is asking for 2- 5 second animations with a winter theme. Since I was planning on making a christmas card with a snowman theme, I think i'll make an animation that I can use for both. Not much can happen in a few seconds, so this is my first idea. A kid finds an unusual snowman...and then finds out who did it. Then I think something really bad happens...still thinking though. I might change my mind :)

Billy Cosmic

So I finally cracked and purchased a Wacom Cintique tablet/monitor. Wow very cool. I get so sick of scanning crappy drawings, now I draw them direclty onto the monitor. I played around on it and came up with Billy Cosmic, Guardian of the Universe.

Happy Fredsgiving!

I submitted A.D.D. Jane to the very cool Channel Frederator. Jane is the second cartoon. Enjoy!

Introducing the "Greens"

One of the latest projects I'm working on is a 2 minute cartoon for Pottery Barn (yes, the store that sells house stuff), about products that use organic cotton. It stars the Greens, a family that is environmentally conscious. Still in early stages. More to come.

New Animation

After spending a ridiculous amount of time animating A.D.D. Jane, I vowed to do smaller projects that would allow me to experiment with different styles. I'm about halfway done with this 30 second piece about a reckless alien. The design is based on the business card i threw together a comple months ago.

Spot-DJ Robots!

In continuation of updating this blog with past random projects. Early in the summer, I worked a bit for Spot DJ. Their product is that you can create funky-fresh mp3 players that people can build, and embed on their web page (or animation art blog). Its fun and free. Not to mention customizeable. I made a cassette, an mp3 player, a cupcake (!?), and the robot. If Robbie up there looks a little mismatched that’s because you can mix and match the parts. Go ahead and click play to hear some great music! The actual robots I made are below.

Link –> Go to the SpotDJ site and check it out!

Sisters

For the hell of it, here’s character designs for a e-card about sisterly love.

Proposal Illustrations

I took a last minute project last week to mock up some screens for a fashion game for girls. It was a little rushed but some of them came out pretty cool. I’ve attached a few examples.

Images Copyright © 2007 Mighty Play

Weapons of Math Destruction Up

Hey, go check out the game I worked on with programmer Dave Castleneuvo (www.boltcreative.com). Its sort of an initial version with only one level. More levels and variations on game-play are in the works. Be sure to use your keyboard to type the answers. Its more satisfying that way. Trust me!

link–> Weapons of Math Destruction!

Image Copyright © 2007 Bonus.com

Okay, so i’m going to Flash Forward for the hell of it and because A.D.D. Jane is nominated. But its a good chance to, dare i say it, NETWORK. Ouch, that sounds really grown up. Well, having been freelancing for about a year now, I have managed to not have a business card. Well, I’m caving in and making one. Don’t ask me why I picked this image. It was the first thing that came to mind. I think I have aliens on the brain!

WoMD logo

Still working on the game. Had fun designing a logo incorporating a couple of the bad guys, using lots and LOTS of gradients.

Image Copyright © 2007 Bonus.com

More Cyborg Kittens!

Here’s the states of borg kitty in the game.


Image Copyright © 2007 Bonus.com

Cyborg Kitty!

More stuff for Weapons of Math Destruction. Watch out for these guys. They are Adora-borgs! Cute and Deadly.

First Blog Entry!

Jumping on the blog bandwagon! I’m Allan and I’m a freelance flash guy working in San Francisco. I decided to start blogging when my short A.D.D. Jane was accepted into Flash Forward. I haven’t been posting my work to my portfolio because its such a hassle to update. The advantage of a blog is that you can just throw up new stuff and whatever you feel like without overloading the portfolio page. For instance, here’s a piece of flash design I just did for a game I’m working on called “Weapons of Math Destruction” for the (now beta) kids site Bonus.com. Its a space-shooter game where you have to enter the answers to math problems to destroy enemies. Its my first stab at the cockpit.

More later!