Legend of Korra: Republic City Hustle Character Designs

It's been nearly a year since The Legend of Korra prequel shorts, Republic City Hustle, debuted, which I helped animate. The producers wanted to recreate the world of Korra in a new style for the shorts, and I was one of several illustrators asked to take a stab at redesigning the main characters, Bolin and Mako, as younger street urchins. As you can see, they wisely went with another design.

I have to admit to two things:

1. Although I was aware of The Last Airbender and Korra series, I was not very familiar with them. I had cobbled together a vague understanding of the series from promos I saw in between SpongeBob marathons, so I had to do a little research into the characters.

2. The final designs that Nickelodeon did use work way better than the designs I did. Whomever designed them probably had a better understanding of the characters and the story, since they made them significantly younger than I did. I still have not seen an episode of The Legend of Korra.

Qantas Air Spots

Here are some fun animated spots that I recently finished up for The Bindery. All of the amazing characters were designed and illustrated by the very talented Erin Eng.

UPDATE: you read more about these spots on The Bindery's site as well.

There's a new TED-Ed lesson in town...

All of those years watching Law & Order paid off for my latest TED-Ed animated lesson where Andrew Jackson gets taken to court.

Animating H. Jon Benjamin...

I got to visualize and animate some characters created by the comedy duo of Geoff Garlock and Mike Pace of Worst Gig Ever and voiced by none other than the legendary H. Jon Benjamin (Bob's Burgers, Archer, Dr. Katz, etc.). Check out more of Bedrocket Media's Official Comedy page while you are at it. I hear a Fart Dog, MD series is in the works...




UPDATE: The AV Club caught wind of this and decided to do a brief feature on it. I made the AV Club.

Legend of Korra Prequels

A few months ago I put in some time, along with a lot of other talented folks, animating prequels for Nickelodeon's Legend of Korra. Cartoon Brew has a nice profile on the shorts.

TED-Ed: Defining Cyber Warfare

Another TED-Ed Lesson I designed and animated has debuted, this time about cyber warfare.

TED-Ed Commas Lesson

I recently had the pleasure to animate a TED-Ed lesson regarding commas. I hope to do more!