Tiki Drumma Tonga Toni Di

Tonga Toni Di. He loves to bang on the drums and he loves his grog. When the sun goes down he hits the drum twice as fast and howls at the moon. When the sun comes up, he plays for the sea and then runs into the jungle and hides until the afternoon when he drums some more to scare away the sun and bring back the moon.

Post 100! - Samurai Otter

SpellFlyer!

Hey! It's another iPhone / iPod Touch game - unfortunately unless you are between the ages of 3-7, you probably won't find this game very enjoyable. It's an "edutainment" (not a big fan of that word) game where you fly a plane to spell words and are rewarded by a sky full of fireworks. Lots of fun if you don't know how to spell. If you're able to read this blog post, probably not so much.

Steamboat Mountain built this game in a matter of a few weeks for a production company called Zero260 up in Seattle. This game has another great soundtrack and we even got to record some voice acting. I worked as Lead Designer on the project and for the first time in my life made something that wasn't just mindless entertainment. Now kids will know that if you spell poorly, your plane will go down in flames ... well ok, not in flames, but will smoke and make it fly all crazy. ;)

(Btw the poor quality screencaps - that's some sort of compression issue. When you buy the game it won't have artifacting, I swear!)

Itunes Store - SpellFlyer

Abby Crabby Iphone Game

I've been busy the last couple months working on lots of crazy stuff, but this was the thing taking most of my time - designing a little Iphone / Ipod Touch game called Abby Crabby. It was the first Iphone game that this company Steamboat Mountain Designs made, and their second Iphone app, and it came out pretty danged good.

It's basically an old school arcade kind of game, like Missile Command or Space Invaders, but in the Pacific Ocean with piles of trash falling and smashing baby crabs (ok the smashing baby crabs part is sad but the game is fun!). Part of the game sales proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Center for the Future of the Oceans, so for a couple of bucks, you're saving the earth and getting a fun game for your Iphone to play while you're in line at the market.

Anyways, here's the link to the game if you want to check it out! Abby Crabby! (I think it's even on sale for a buck right now...)

Jeff Mathews and I came up with the concept and gameplay, I designed the look of the game and Jeff used his magic brain to code it. Randy Willig did our sound effects and Marcus Baide came up with some kitchity katchy carribbean music. Thanks to Jeff and Steamboat Mountain Designs for giving me the chance to work on this fun game.

Check out the gameplay video after the screencaps!

2 cars and a half a motor

Been studying some of Ed Newton's car stuff. That guy is the godfather of kustom car art, and the dude behind lots of the cool Ed Roth stuff during his heyday. That lower drawing is just the same car but in Powerpuff style. Been spending too much time around the Powerpuff crew I guess ...

Macho Purple Monster

Here I was looking at my used cintiq 15 that I've had for a few months that I bought off a friend - I finally hooked it up and messed around, drawing this monster last night, but here's the weird part. That color palate you see there ... totally not me. He was purple with blue hair and a grey blue background. It's some weird export problem with photoshop / flash. When I upload here, it's all psychadelic. Maybe it's better that way.

Buck Rogers In The Land of Chromeo

Jeez I haven't updated this in awhile. I won't give you any excuses, but I will give you this Buck Rogers Chromeo video I put together. I love Buck Rogers and I love Chromeo. It's a match made in heaven.