Trying to find a rhyme

Hello,

Once again things have gotten busy and I find myself realizing time has flown by, I ask myself what now? Do I play catch up and write up or just go with the flow, well I chose go with the flow. I recently found myself making a huge overhaul to my site OneBlueBird and where do I begin to talk about that, well its fully coded by me not the best code but it works. The current plan is to finish the site by adding some more exciting elements like a series of animated transitions for moving from section to section. I have also been exploring Augmented realty for the site, those details will have to wait as I don't want to ruin the surprise. Other than those elements the site is pretty close to complete.
Work wise I have been busy with the release of all 5 episodes of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. Besides that we have also announced at work our partnership with Universal Studios and we are doing Back To The Future and Jurassic Park so that has made things very busy and exciting at work.
Being in San Francisco has put a lot of things in perspective both personally and professionally. Design and interactive design is so much apart of my life and my love at the moment. I get moments of pure excitement when I have an idea for an exciting app or interactive motion design. (Speaking of animation and motion design I have been story boarding a lot lately for site designs and some cool ui ideas at work.)
Besides the excitement I get from design, I have felt a part of my career and my true love of illustration kicking back into full affect with a project I did for The Devil's Playhouse poster series. The posters are fun from the illustration to the full design layout of the typography. The beauty of illustration for me is the prefect harmony between design and illustration, when all the right elements come together from concept and subject matter.
My next post will be the complete collection of The Devil's Playhouse posters I had the pleasure of creating. Till then enjoy the post and the art I created for my website.

Here is to a rhyme to live by.

-Enjoy

March part two

Hello,

Here is some more work that I did for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. This was the marketing site for this series. I got to do a really cool theater approach for this site. Overall I am happy with how the whole campaign has come across and the fan's enjoying it a lot. Also I got to illustrate and design the poster for Episode 1: The Penal Zone and let me just say this was one of my favorite parts. I will be posting more work as the Game comes out on the 15th and its ok to share.

Here is the live site to check out: http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/thedevilsplayhouse

Enjoy

March the busy month!

Hello,

So this month has been one busy busy month. I had friends in town had lots of fun going here and there seeing what San Francisco has to offer. Also at the same time launching two of the biggest campaigns Telltale Games has done. We launched all new Merch for Tales of Monkey Island! I got the pleasure to be the Art director and creator for most all the merch. Along with that set of items we launched the big Pre-Order event for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. I got to Create the look and feel for all the Marketing and Web content plus I got to design the screens for the PS3 version of the game, how cool is that! To top it off I got to Direct and storyboard out the Trailer for the Series Premiere to the world. It is being talked about as one of the Best Telltale has produced, which makes me feel really great. The trailer got play on G4TV, Gamespot, IGN, and basically you name it it made it on somewhere on the web. Oh if you are a PS3 owner go to the PSN and download the HD version.

Anyway here is some great work I produced for this great game. Logo work, Trailer, Key Art, and some Branding.

Enjoy!

Logos and A Game Icon for the First Episode:



Key Art created to help get the vibe and excitement going about the new Series:


Invite for a GDC Party/ Event to Announce Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse:

The Trailer for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

I am Back!!

Dear Readers,

I know I know... I am a broken record, but seriously I have a good reason for my lack of posts and disappearance for the past few months. You might ask, "so whats up and where have you been or what have you been up to" and the answer is a lot and now I am ready to share a list of them with you all.

First off the big one was that I got MARRIED :-) in October and little to say that was my life for September through the middle of October. After the Honeymoon I got several amazing job offers and had to do a lot flying from MN to San Francisco for a few weeks. I accepted a great Art Director position for a talented and great Gaming Studio called Telltale Games. I am sure some of you have heard of them, as they are responsible for such great episodic games as Sam & Max and of course their big hit at the moment is the newly redone Lucas Art's Classic Tales of Monkey Island! With that being said I am excited to add my mind and talents to the mix at Telltale.

Well if you have been following my blog over the past years you all might be saying WOW what happened to my Senior position at Ham and the answer is I decided to leave Ham. They were running into several issues that I will not go into too much detail about but they had to lay off several people/friends, as well as cut everyone's salaries and so on. I loved the work I did there a lot but I had a really hard time with that and seeing what was happening to the people I cared about and seeing the economic downward spiral happening there, SOOOOO I took a fulltime contract position with a gaming company called Electrotank as there Senior UI Designer/ 2d Artist. I got to work on some really cool work and will share it down the road once I can, the only thing I can say about it is "ubi" hehe

Now that I am married, moved/settling into California life while starting a seriously cool career path I think it's time to get back to the web and get my word out again.

I hope people will read this once I get back into the swing of things and please post comments or ask me anything you would like and if I can answer them I will.

As an end note I am going to be posting all of our cool wedding stuff I made for the big day.

Take it easy and here is to the future and happiness for both my personal life and career!

Thanks for reading and enjoying my works.

-Stephen

Part4: What have I been up to?

Hi,

How are you all? I hope amazing. I'm currently working on a game for "Spam" the food lol. Its different but cool, lots of weird animations. This post will be the last post about "What I have been up to?" and I'm going to post the interactive things I designed and had fun with this past year. Something to keep a look out for is going to be future posts about illustration, random sketches and design work. In the meantime here are some samples of a few of my favorite interactive concepts.

Oh before I forget I am going out of town next week to Boston for the whole week and will return on Tuesday the 27th. I am going to try and post some photos from the trip and my sweet little niece.

Thanks for listening and enjoy:

Interactive piece designed for the political season. With this piece you could pick a candidate then mix and match pieces from speeches they have given then send that mixed message to friends or post it.

This next project was to design an interactive valentines song/message maker that could be both a love song or a hate you for dumping me type of song. The general concept was the more positive messaging you select the more over the top the set design and characters would get with lovey stuff and the same goes for someone selecting hateful messaging.

Part2: What have I been up to?

Hello,

So here is some more work I have done this past year or so. This work mainly revolves around interactive work, design, and animation. There are several other interactive/web design projects I will post after this one. I hope you enjoy and like what I have been up to.

Below are a series of stills from the Mall of America: Nickelodeon Universe site I worked as illustration, design and animation. I got to animate Spongebob and several other elements on this one. It was fun to work on.
The next set of images below are from the 2008 Halloween site I designed for Target. This years theme was Domo and all things Domo. With this project I got to Design everything, Animate, and illustrate needed assets. The Amazing thing I just found out was that this online experience was Targets most successful seasonal campaign to date with sales up 89%.The last set of images I will showcase today are from the previous years Halloween site for Target. Edgar and Ellen from Nickelodeon were the main theme this year and it was extremely well received. Again I got to lead the design and animation along with making all the fun illustrations for the site.

New Sketch!!

Hello,
Man I am enjoying Spring :-) got to do the lawn and get some sun and then play with my puppy. Also we got to take long walks in the neighborhood and see whats what. On another note I finished this sketch for a new promo piece for my post cards and also a large card that will be handed out at the HOW conference. Yes indeed I am going to this years HOW conference my Rep has a booth so a group of us are going to go to represent for Scott Hull :-) This years event is in goo ol Atlanta. I grew up in Memphis soo I am excited to visit the south again. Ohhh also on an old note here is a screen shot of a clothing site (esselleonline.com) I designed and built :-)
well I am off to finish this promo piece and work on some other goodies .
-enjoy

New Work!!

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the delay in my posts. Just so much stuff going one from all ends personal and work. Here are two finished projects one for EH publishing and then Canvas Boutique (http://www.canvasboutique.com/)
Hope you enjoy.
-peace

Website Relaunch!!

Hey Everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful New Years. I launched my refresh to my site and hope you all enjoy.
-peace
Stephen

Christmas Time!!!

Hello Everyone,

I hope you all have a happy holiday and new year with your loved ones. Here is a little fun animation done for my rep's holiday site.

Also please check out my site after the new year and see the major refresh and updates!!
-peace
Stephen

My Web Angel

Hi Everyone,

I have been busy. I just finished along project with the department of defense. It was a flash video game based with avatars. So I am going to post them on my onebluebird.com site soon.

In the mean time I have been think this over long and hard. I want to bring my site into the new year!! Since making the site my style has grown and developed. Sooo I'm going to give my site a refresh. Nothing to dramatic. I am simply taking my design now a step further and adding some new graphics. My goal is to turn my site into a working illustration. So here is a sketch of one of the graphics that will be added.

-enjoy
Stephen

HowDesign.com Featured me!!

"We at HOW magazine were so taken with your site that we have listed it as one of our Web site's "Top 10" sites to see this month."

WOW i am so honored :-) to visit my site go to http://www.onebluebird.com
more work on the way keep checking back.
-peace Stephen

Some news :-)

Hey everyone,

I just got the ok to an agreement to design a site for a clothing boutique. That is going to be a fun job. I also have a ton of illustrations I am currently working on and should post those soon.

Lots of cool things in the pipe line, can't wait to post them.

-peace
Stephen

Just Updating!!

Hi,

Hope all is well. I just got an email from the Art Director that I worked with at PLAYGIRL and she told me they are going to have a section about the artists in the issue I did work for and I will have a picture and bio lol :-) thats right people

Well this week has been really killer I have been working like crazy on new work and I should have some stuff to post once I hear its approved :-D


In the meantime here is some artwork i did for this retail center for some ads I did several versions and this is one of them its my fav.

This next piece is from the whitman series i have been working and and lead to the website www.thewhitman.com

Which is up for an ADDY this year :-D




Well that should keep ya till my next post I hope ya enjoy.

Have a Great Day!!!!

-Stephen

Major Updates!!!

Hey everyone I have Great News. I just heard the work I did on http://www.thewhitman.com
Recieved a nomination for an ADDY. That is soo cool and a huge thing for me :-D

I also got word that I will have another t-shirt coming out from a clothing company in LA.

Also working on a logo for this company that works for movie companies as a placement agency. They put stuff in movie i.e. nike, phones things like that on the big screen... I got word they are taking me on as a client as well and working to get my artwork in movies.

Whatelse I Just Put my Website http://www.onebluebird.com through a Major Update and there are tons of new work in the illustration, sketch and design sections.

Well everyone I hope your weekend is going well enjoy it!!!!

-Stephen