"Cover Band" piece for Gallery 1988

I finished this piece today for the "Cover Band" show at Gallery 1988, which opens October 7th. It's a group show with about 60 artists, each of whom got to pick their 10 favorite album covers from the Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500 Albums of All Time. From those ten options, the gallery sent out one original cover to each artists for use as a canvas... basically making it into a sort of collaboration. I luckily got one of my top 3 -- the self-titled Led Zeppelin album with the burning Hindenburgh -- and wanted to try to keep as much of the original art as possible. Thankfully there was a lot of white space!

My attempt was to take this iconic, tragic image, and give it a different feel. More like a cute "whoops" rather than a horrific "oh the humanity". If it's just a little girl's balloon catching fire it's not quite so dramatic, is it? Well, maybe she'd be more freaked out if she knew there were people in there. Also, I wanted to do something that had nothing to do with the actual songs or the band, since I felt that would be... well, almost an insult to the original cover. It's such a perfect cover for that album, I would never presume to make a better or more poignant version.

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Key Bank TV spot - "Remodel"

I know I posted this one already, but I wanted to re-post with a selection of some of the keyframe art I provided to Digital Kitchen:

Key Bank TV spot - "Concerned Dad"

Here's the 3rd TV spot for Key Bank, entitled "Concerned Dad", with a guy talking about the need to pay for college for his kids. You can check out a sample of the final artwork I supplied below, and larger, sharper version of the video here: http://www.d-kitchen.com/project.php?p=127 (click on "Concerned Dad")

Key Bank TV spot - "Medals"

Here's the 2nd TV spot for Key Bank, entitled "Medals". They interviewed Diana Munz, one of the US medalists in the Sydney Olympics, to talk about her medals and how she used Key Bank to help keep them secure. Overall I'm pretty happy with the animation on this one, considering they had to do a good amount of tweening to get the swimming and mermaid parts to work right.

I included a handful of stills from the final artwork I provided to Digital Kitchen. They mostly kept close to my original illustrations, but a couple of their translations didn't work quite as well (in my opinion). They turned the blowfish and the clam into 3D-rendered objects, that end up losing a lot of the charm and stylization of the more flat illustrative versions I provided. But this is an opinion that's admittedly non-objective. Aside from this, I think they did an amazing job!

Again, you can see larger versions of the animations here: http://www.d-kitchen.com/project.php?p=127 (just click under the "Play Videos" tab to see the others)