Disney Animation Studios 'Paperman'

Did a Poster for Disney Animation Studios 'Paperman', directed by the truly imaginative John Kahrs'. It's a short about true love and destiny. The film is set to premiere in Annecy, France. I will be joing Kahrs in support of our premiere night. If any of you are planning on going to Annecy for the animation festival join us there for opening night. You wont want to miss it! I believe there will be a panel discussion of some kind on that and I will be talking about the Art Direction of 'Paperman'. Another person of uncanny talent, Patrick Osborne the Animation Supervisor, will be joining John and I as well. Patrick and John are a real gift to the world of animation and you'll want to be there to meet these guys. So happy to be a part of this neat little short and hope to someday do another!

Sherlock Holmes ideas.

Teaching a class at Art Center College of Design this term and working with some fantastic students that have a hunger for growth with great passion in there ideas and designs. This weeks assignment is to record yourself acting out lines from a movie script and translate it into your character designs. This is the first time I tried this technique as an assignment for my class. It is going pretty well for the most part. First, I thought I should do the assignment myself as an example. For my script I chose 'Sherlock Holmes' which is also a story that I am doing at work as an assignment that Shiyoon Kim a friend from work gave me to help me with my growth as a character designer. I will say for these designs I have many influences and that would be First Shiyoon and his unique way of approaching character design along with Walter Peregoy, Oliver Hurst and a little more of Shiyoon Kim, hahaha, thanks Shiyoon. Here are some of the designs that came out of this exercise. Just a side note. I chose to try this technique with the class and with myself in my own work mostly because I was influenced by the animation department at Disney Animation Studios and how they approached there scenes before the started to animate. This technique proved to be a great way to get my mind in the head of the character and to come up with original poses that could give a personal touch to my designs. Although these I admittedly aren't the most original takes on Sherlock Holmes, I feel at least it's a better start had I just began to design with out any intention of acting it out physically. Hope you enjoy these, thanks for reading.

~Jeff

Slowing down.

Just a small announcement, I have for the past year and some change been Art Directing a charming short called 'Paperman' directed by John Kahrs. We have been keeping our lips sealed for the most part of what it's about. John Kahrs, myself and all the wonderfully gifted artist that worked on our show really pushed hard to establish a style that supports the story and at the same time gives you a visual experience like nothing you've seen before! Please keep your eyes out for it..you don't want to miss it.
That being said, I will be posting soon on this dusty blog seeing that my Production Design/Art Directing Gig is coming to an end.
So come back and see what I've been up to.

~Jeff

'TICK TOCK'

Here are just a few designs I did for Disney's Short 'TickTock'

Hope you all got a chance to see 'Tangled'. Here are a few things I did for the show.

Book Plates for Peck'n'Paw & The Black Mirror

Just a few of my book plates for 'Peck'n'Paw & The Black Mirror'. To see more book plates visit our official Peck'n'Paw & The Black Mirror blog!

Mothers Day

I did this for my mother on Mothers Day.

Music lover

Was thinking about my girlfriend for this piece. Among all her talents, she has a great enthusiasm for playing the piano and she loves music.

Peck'n'Paw & The Black Mirror

A sneak peak at the cover for "Peck'n'Paw & The Black Mirror". Click the Tab to the right to find out more about this fantastic art book featuring many talented artists.

Jeff Turley

Artwork I did for Disney's 'Prep&Landing'

Here's some visual development work. Some flew, most didn't; I guess that's how things go. I'll try to post more when I have the time to find all the work I did for the show.

Artwork I did for Disney's 'Prep&Landing'

Artwork I did for Disney's 'Prep&Landing'

Artwork I did for Disney's 'Prep&Landing'

Artwork I did for Disney's 'Prep&Landing'

There's more but couldn't find them, oh well.

Artwork I did for Disney's 'Prep&Landing'

Here are just a few Layouts for the North Pole's Air traffic Control Tower and Santa's Hanger

Artwork I did for Disney's 'Prep&Landing'

Here just a few of the backgrounds I painted for the show.

A walk in the Park.

I'm part Irish and sometimes wonder who I would be if I grew up in Ireland. If I would like to go on walks in parks or perhaps drink like a fish!

Film noir is the best!

Waiting...

Painted this for you Keika (my girl)

"A kiss is a Rosy dot over the "i" of Loving."
Cerano de Bergerac

Repunzel Vis. Dev. Art!

Just found out that Disney Animation Studio used this piece of Visual Development art I did as part of a set of teaser images for there up coming film "Rapunzel". To check out the rest of the images that my talented friends at Disney did for the film you can find them at: www.disneyanimation.com

just taking a stab at a more realistic painting.