Well, this is the DVD label which is the last installment to the California 90420 Movie Project for Catchphrase Entertainment and New Coast Productions. I think the commission is finally complete. Everything has been delivered. As soon as the DVD is out I will have all of the actual items commissioned and do a photo shoot of the package commission both for a Behance Network project as well as a blog post summing up the entire experience from start to finish. Thanks to Dean Shull of Catchphrase and Steve Roberts of New Coast for this opportunity. Here is an interview of the two on California 90420. It was challenging at times and a bit out of my comfort zone but it all worked out in the end and the main thing is that they are happy with the final outcome. The satisfaction of my clients is far more important to me than any amount of money, although it’s a nice little bonus.
I’m about to start a portait commission right now for +Tim Jones of Google+ and I will complete the Robert De Niro series afterwards and make a post with several images showing some of the different ways I approach a caricature and hopefully shedding some light on the many different angles you can look at a person and the differing directions of taking the exaggeration itself. That was a long sentence, please don’t correct my grammer. It sucks. Again, these methods that I describe here on my blog are my methods and not necessarily the correct methods. In fact my methods are actually all experimental as I try to figure this stuff out. I have no training in Photoshop or caricatures, or even art for that matter. I just do what I do. If you want formal caricature training, go to the master, Jason Seiler. He teaches a corse through Schoolism.com which is well worth the money and as soon as I have the time, I’m taking the course myself.
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California 90420 DVD Wrap Commission – Final Draft
Dec 6, 2011
Tonight I’m finally posting the completed DVD wrap commission for the movie California 90420 by Catchphrase Entertainment and New Coast Productions in L.A. I let myself get talked into doing the type setting on this job. This will be the last one. I offer illustration, not graphic design. I just don’t have the software, fonts etc. needed for that king of work and I just don’t enjoy it. I’m going to stick with my caricatured manipulations. It’s what I do best and it’s what I enjoy doing. This was a pretty cool project though. In all, there was the original caricature commission, two posters, a t-shirt and the DVD wrap so it was a good bit of work. Check out the movie trailer below and check out the movie if you get a chance. Well, it’s official; just got the final approval so this will be delivered tonight. I’m ready to move on to some fun stuff now.
California 90420
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Adora-ble ~ A Portrait Commission of a Cutie
Dec 4, 2011
Tonight I’m posting a portrait commission which was done for an extremely loving dad who had this beautiful little girl sort of late in life at age 56. He recently started an art project in the form of a blog to document her growing up and build a collection of original art of this precious little girl named Adora. He started commissioning artists from all over the world to create unique works based on photographs of his cute baby daughter. 170 diverse original pieces have been published so far on the blog. The adorable art archive is a scrollable showcase all of the images to date. The Art portion can be viewed here and he adds a new and different entry to it every single day. The main page is at http://growababy.com. Do you think this is a proud dad? I would say so, and he has every right to be. Little Adora is truly Adorable.
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California 90420 DVD Wrap Commission – 2nd Draft
Nov 30, 2011
This is the second draft of the DVD wrap design for CatchPhrase Entertainment and New Coast Productions, obviously for the movie California 90420 after a laundry list of changes they wanted. The 2nd draft ended up quite a bit different from the first. As you can see, almost everything was changed in some way and it’s not finished. There are more icons and information that they wanted on the bottom of the back cover but there is no room so I sent them this and I’m leaving it up to them to figure it out. Oh well, you have to give the client what they want. I will hopefully be posting the final draft tomorrow or I think I’ll ask to them visit my PayPal account again. 🙂
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California 90420 DVD Wrap Commission – 1st Draft
Nov 23, 2011
Tonight I’m posting the first draft of a DVD wrap design concept for the movie California 90420 by CatchPhrase Entertainment and New Coast Productions out of California. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the poster I was initially commissioned to do. It was simple on a white background because it was so huge and they didn’t provide any source images at the size required to create a custom background at that print size. This project is a little more fun because I can create backgrounds from smaller images. I’m not much of a graphic designer so this is a bit out of my element as far as type setting and all but this is my attempt with the limited recourses I have, namely fonts. This is just the first conceptual comp and will change considerably before completion but I just wanted to show what I started with and how it will evolve over time with the clients’ input and added source material. Sometimes I have to just put something together to get the client thinking and deciding on what they really want, so this was a very quick mock-up. I’ll be working on the final product tomorrow and with any luck, have it posted the next day.
Just for kicks, I’m posting the movie trailer below as well as a little info on the movie premiere dates and locations. Enjoy!
Directed by one of the guys that brought you the comedy hit, “Waiting…”, comes the story of 4:20 Somethings; learning, leading, striving and thriving in California’s semi-legalized marijuana culture.
California 90420 will be premiering on the east coast November 4th and 5th at the Asheville Cinema Festival in North Carolina. (www.ashevillecinemafestival.com)
The west coast premiere will be in Los Angeles on November 19th. If you are interested in attending this private screening, go to www.facebook.com/California90420.
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