Animation for Gripman Investment Financial

GAVBX Fund Summary from Brian Bookheimer on Vimeo.

Produced by Cap City Studios, LLC in 2016.

T-Shirt Design

Did this logo/ t-shirt design a couple months back. Have two more t-shirts coming out soon. This one is for a friend who started a physical fitness website and company in Indianapolis. http://jimbeebeamrap.com/

Interview with Animation Insider.com

An interview that I did with the website Animation Insider.com just came out today. Click on the image below to check it out!  If you are a student studying animation and haven't seen the website, it is a really nice resource.   Enjoy!

Progressive Animated Piece

Click on the image above to view an animation that I helped out with.  Animated about four scenes in this piece: the fishing scene (at :23 seconds),the sliding on clouds scene (:52), the calendar scene (:58) and the screaming eagle scene (2:32).  Andy Friz was the animation director on this, and we used cut-out characters rigs that he created in Harmony.  Was created REALLY quickly (in a matter of 5-6 weeks I believe, which is FAST for a three minuted animated film).  Enjoy!  Had fun working on it!

http://www.progressive.com/insurance/flosbestday/index.html

IGC Animatic for Simpsons Video Game

This piece was produced as reference for the other IGC's that would be created later on. It did not appear in the game. My job on this was go to through the original piece that had been produced at EA and to both revise and 'Simpsonize' it. Interesting side note... the voices for these initial animatics were done by EA employees in-house, and they did a great job!  The password to view this animatic is 'animatic'. 

More Sketches for Simpson Game

Did a lot of these. Really enjoyed the process.

Simpsons Layout Scene Set-Up

A scene set-up from an episode of The Simpsons. Don't remember which episode, but basically the aunts were babysitting Maggie but really not watching her at all, and she had to change her own diaper and redress herself. She did a pretty good job of it, but put her dress back on backwards and one of her aunt exclaims, 'so helpless'.

Christopher Pop-In-Kins Commercial

Finished this piece in December of 2009. Won two bronze Telly Awards. Quick production, but everyone was happy with the results.

Simpsons Family Layout Pose

This was a shot where the family was carolling during one of the Christmas episodes (I forget which one).

Idle Poses for The Simpsons Video Game

As a consultant on the Simpsons Video Game for EA a few years back, I worked on a number of animatics for the in-game cinematics and also did a series of sketches like the ones below. These were thumbnails where I was brainstorming about different idles that the characters could perform while they were motionless on the screen and not being controlled. The last image below was a possible combo attack for Homer.

The studio had a number of Simpsons artists contributing to the production of the game. I enjoyed spending one week at the Redwood City EA campus during production where I got to meet and work with many of the EA artists who were creating the game. I was VERY impressed with the scale of the project and their handling of it. They really tried to understand what made the show tick and to bring that into the game environment. Their attention to detail was to a level I hadn't anticipated going into the project. I learned a lot during the process and think they did a great job!

Some Professional Work from The Simpsons

Below is a highlight reel of some of the scenes that I worked on while I was a layout artist and timer on The Simpsons. I worked on the show from season 10 thru season 15.