1997 - Blog Posts

Apalachicola National Forest / Leon County, FL “Detour”

“I guess it’s like Las Vegas. The house always wins.”

Second Sandwich Epiphany | 5×5 — The Post Modern Prometheus

Sandwich Epiphany | 1×21 — Tooms

Illustrations by Charles Santore for WILLIAM THE CURIOUS: KNIGHT OF THE WATER LILIES (1997).

Disney in all, but name. 

Well, it’s kind of hard to think of yourself as a duchess when you’re sleeping on a damp floor. But, sure, every lonely girl would hope she’s a princess.

roadshow特別編集 [shueisha mook] ブラッド・レンフロ cool & wild brad renfro

want to hear something that scared the shit out of me? i researched the invention of the internet and the whole coding behind it...only just realised though that the internet is only ten years older than me. i. feel. so. fucking. old.

David Bowie, New York 1997

© Ian Davies | Source

Earthling Tour, Torhout/Werchter Festival (Torhout, Belgium), May 7th, 1997. 📸: Gie Knaeps

David Bowie at Rock City (Nottingham), August 5th, 1997. 📸: Mirrorpix (p.s: happy birthday to Earthling!!!)

I love Björk very much, and I wanted to draw the cover of her album, Homogenic (my absolute favorite from her). Her birthday was a couple days ago, and I wanted to post this on her birthday however it was still a work in progress.

Nevertheless, happy belated birthday, love <3

PC - Dungeon Keeper Intro (HD)

Intro of Dungeon Keeper for PC.

This game raised me better than my Broodmother ever could.^^

Edit I posted yesterday on my tiktok ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ @bey0nd_fake

Art by: Eros Manfredi Borselli

Ink on paper

Untitled I (detail) & Untitled II 2019

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~ Grand Theft Onizuka ~ GTO [Great Teacher Onizuka] X GTA [Grand Theft Auto] [GTO] - 1999 - [GTA] - 1997

Back in August of ‘97, I was working at George Elliott’s first animation studio: 'PICTOR Entertainment'. I was likely working as either a Designer or a Layout artist, on one of the many series we did service work for. But one day George asked me if I could also pull Layout duties on a "Denny’s Restaurant” TV spot that local legend animator Chuck Gammage was working on, for ‘Colossal Pictures’? I’d never worked on a TV commercial before, but was certainly game to give it a try!

As memory serves, I got the storyboards from Chuck on a Friday,-- and completed the layouts over a long weekend. There weren’t any designs for the 30-second “Skillet Breakfasts” spot. But Chuck mentioned that he wanted the BG’s to be styled after the classic “Tom & Jerry” cartoons of the 1940′s..

Before I even got started, I got word that 2 of the 6 BG’s were being cut for time. Less work for me.. YAY!!  For the remaining 4, I tried to follw the staging that appeared in the storyboards, as closely as possible.. As you can see from the final ad,-- although many of the design elements were retained, all of my Layouts got changed at the Paint stage. Which if my memory serves, were beautifully painted by: Branislav Perkovic.

The only other initial instruction I recall getting from Chuck, was that he’d wanted the dog to chase the cat repeatedly around the Kitchen, at the start. He’d asked for a few extreme Foreground elements in silhouette, which weren’t in the board panels..  I chose to forego that idea, because I couldn’t think of way to make it work..  Chuck Gammage had worked as an animator on Richard Williams’ 1988 “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” feature. And I think he may have wanted to try and recreate some of the crazy chase elements that appeared in that Kitchen? As you can see by the screengrabs, the pair only run thru it once, without doing any of the elaborate laps in the storyboard..

In the end,-- I think everyone’s contributions helped create a fantastic-looking classic 90′s-era animated commercial, that still holds up to repeated viewing.. You can watch it (and judge for yourself), by clicking here!

A Julie Newmar-esque "CAT GIRL" illo inked by my friend Rodney Dunn, back in '97.. A talented artist, who (sadly) ended his own life in June 2005. "Dynamite" was the nickname he gave me.. I still miss him.