This is a commercial I designed and animated with my pal John Santos at Producto Studios. I did the bulk of character design & all animation, layouts, & storyboards.  Dan Golden was the Background Artist.

Poe was the equivalent of a rockstar for his day and age, playing to packed houses and sold out theaters. A legend in his own time!!

Run!! Its the TURK!!! Actually, the Turk was the nickname for the chess playing automoton created by a clever Bavarian inventor to fool people of the time into thinking they were playing with a real live robot!! However it was just a man in a box… which Poe brilliantly deduced using his amazing powers of observation. This image is based on sketches of the actual machine, and is used in the exhibit to decorate the kiosk which houses the video game I created for the Library, “I Know Poe”.

Here are the rectangular silhouettes I designed for the same exhibit. These were also used throughout the gallery, and are drawn from Poe’s stories as well, but were intended also to act as Genre illustrations for the styles of writing Poe was known for and helped invent.

These are the square silhouettes I designed for the Library of Virginia’s Edgar Allan Poe exhibit. These were all based off of individual Poe stories and printed on banners used throughout the lobby & gallery.

A poster I created for my favorite kazoo-rockin’ pal, as seen on TV, TV’s Danny P!! Catch his act around the Richmond scene. I’ve got another poster I’m workin’ up for him as well. Will post it when finished!

I’m still working out of the home, but now the wife and I have a space suitable for entertaining clients, complete with its own separate entrance! And this space is truly suitable of the name Lightbox. Its a 650 sq ft florida room off the back of the house, with 7 ft tall windows around 3 of the walls, and 6 sky lights overhead… a real ‘light box’ if I’ve ever seen one! Just doesn’t get much better than this!! Plus we’re only 3 doors down from Mom’s house, which is great because being close to her was one of the main reasons for leaving Cartoon Network and moving back to Va after Dad passed away. Its quicker to walk to her place around the corner than to drive it… although with this summer heat its been much more tempting to drive

I’ll post pictures soon, we’re still unpacking boxes, but its good to be able to have some breathing room once again. So turn on the lights, hang the sign up in the window and brew some coffee… Lightbox is OPEN for business!!