Storyboards
Duccaneers
4 minute sequence
Fantasy-comedy
Treasure is afoot on the high seas, and who better to track it down than the enterprising Captain Bill, his first mate Jack-the-sparrow, and their band of intrepid Duccaneers!
Boarded in 4 weeks (storbyboard pro)
Ching Shih: Pirate Queen
5 minute sequence
Historical Drama
Portuguese sailors kidnap a girl from a Cantonese brothel, but they realize they’re in over their heads when they hear the brothel was under the protection of Ching Shih, the Pirate Queen.
Boarded in 3 weeks (storbyboard pro)
Landfall
1 minute excerpt from 6 minute sequence [full version here]
Sci-fi Drama/Action
Original Story, Characters and Prop/BGs
As their rundown neighborhood is forcefully evicted, one family tries desperately to hold together as their world is torn apart.
Landfall Pre-Production Assets
Emphasized original vehicle designs for futuristic flooded San Francisco
Mech design for Counter Revolutionary Militia Spider - note how mech “face” resembles Chinese characters (反革) “counter-revolution”
Aerocar design (intended to read as a flying car without looking like a modern-day car with jets)
Miguel, Juni and Serra - family design sketch
Sunken Golden Gate concept
Design sketch for room on golden-gate bridge
Ching Shih Pre-Production Assets
Designed characters and environments in tune with 1800s Chinese aesthetic and post-napoleonic Portuguese uniforms.
Promotional concept helping to develop aesthetic
Concept background, corresponds roughly to first cut in storyboard.
Pencil sketch of Cpt Avelar design
Monster Train - Breaking Point
2 minute fight sequence
Fantasy Action Adaptation of game Monster Train
For weeks, the legions of hell have united in their flight from invading angels aboard their Monster Train… but their unruly alliance has finally reached a breaking point.
Monster Train Pre-Production Assets
Focused on redesigning characters to make for less-generic fantasy feel
Redesign of Hellhorned Prince - slimmer and more dynamic body type, reduce rounded shape language
Redesign for train steward robots - less generic, more flimsy (disposable)
Redesign of enemy fallen-angel Fel - streamline outfit and make less generic
Redesign of Train (angle of boiler tilted back for dynamism, added shielding to help flow)
The Testimony
3 minute animated short
Drama
Adapted from Testimony, Original Visuals
An adaptation of the real-life testimony of Dr. Danielle Machini, recounting his encounter with the first wave of Covid-19 in Bergamo, Italy.
The Tale of the Father
2 minute boards from 5 minute short [full version here]
Fantasy Action
Original story, designs based on video game Bastion
A wayward bounty hunter tracks down an unruly monster on the railroad tracks outside of town.