Concept Design/Illustration

Studio: Visual Creatures
Creative Director: John Cranston, Ryan McNeely

Design for Social Posts

Studio: Visual Creatures

Rebrand designs of Disney Jr in 2024! I was approached by my friends at Makine Studio to contribute a few style options to give the iconic Disney Jr a fresh makeover. Disney Jr chose this clean, minimal, bold direction that incorporated a sophisticated shape language and gradient system to give their characters center stage!

Studio: Makine

Art Direction

Studio: Revenant

Style Frames Concept Design - Early Promo Package Explore

Creative Director: Bryce Wymer

Style Frames

Studio: SPILLT

Creative Director: Ryan Summers

Main On End Title Illustration, Design, Writing

My friends at BLUR knew that there was only one mind perverse enough to tackle the end titles for the first R-rated comic book film of all time. And since Ryan Reynolds can't really draw, they went with me instead. We had too much fun with this sequence as I was entrusted with the bulk of the gags early on, later honing and refining them down to the five or so that made it into the final cut with the team at BLUR. It was a true team effort of insanely deranged folks, all set to the score of 'Lonely Whisperer,' which in and of itself makes the sequence sparkle. And shoot, really. Right out of a unicorn's horn.

FOX/MARVEL
Client: BLUR
Director: Jenn Miller
Art Director: Norn Jordan
Animation: Deva George

CLAUS made it on SNL! This sequence was brought to us by our good buddies over at Visual Creatures. Pulling stills from behind-the-scenes prep footage, we focused our concept on the fast-paced production of the show and mixed in shots of New York to ground the sequence in the iconic city.

Role: Concept Design and Design

NBC ‘Saturday Night Live’
Client: Visual Creatures
Directors: John Cranston and Ryan McNeely
Animation: Jordan Scott

Style Frames

Studio: Brand New School

Style Frames
Disney Channel Monstober

Studio: Makine

Design

Studio: Brand New School

Style Frame Concept Designs

Studio: The Mill

Opening Titles Concept Design

Studio: Elastic
CD: Hazel Baird

Style Frames Huluween 2023

Studio: We Are Royale

Style Frame Design

Studio: First Fight

Style Frames

Studio: Elastic

CD: Steve Biggert

Style Frames

Promo Bumper Design/ Illustration (Unused)

FXX
Client: We Are Royale

Style Frames

Rocnation x Moncler

Studio: Elastic

Style Frames

Studio: Block & Tackle

Studio: Elastic

Creative Director: Jeff Han

Logo Design for MARVEL’S Upcoming Film Franchise

Getting the opportunity to work on the upcoming reboot’s brand was a dream come true. I dove deep into the history of BLADE, starting with his first appearance in comics in Tomb of Dracula and continuing through to the most recent films. The concept I kept coming back to was having the type actually affected by a blade, having it cut in some way, and not having it ‘look’ like a blade, which a lot of the prior film logos perfected. Spacing the letters out a bit added to the sexiness and epic feel that I was hoping they’d vibe with, too. Thanks to my man Craig Hubbard at Mocean for taking it and bringing that 3D polish to it. Insanely cool to see it on the big screen at Comic Con and to have Mahershala Ali have it on his hat during the big announcement!

MARVEL/Disney
Client: MOCEAN
Creative Director: Mitch Monson
Art Director: Craig Hubbard

If you're looking for the whites of their eyes, look elsewhere.

Where pop culture meets gestural, contour line, expressive figure drawing and painting.

Style Frames

Studio: Hornet

Design Frames

Studio: Scholar

Main On End Title Design, Animation, Full-Production

We were approached by our friends at REEL FX to take their second animated film's end title sequence from concept to completion during a two-month production schedule in 2014. Under the watchful eye of director, writer, 'Book of Life' creator Jorge Gutierrez and seasoned art director Paul J. Sullivan, CLAUS implemented the film's lush palette and refined character designs into a stylized, minimalist design aesthetic in order to adequately compliment the film in this two and a half minute animated end title sequence. 

Check out the full CAST STUDY

FOX
Client: Reel Fx Creative Studios
Animation Supervisor: Byron Slaybaugh
Animation: Byron Slaybaugh, Justin Demetrician

Intro Montage Design Exploration

Studio: BUCK

Style/Production Frames

State Farm takes over WNBA DRAFT NIGHT 2024 in Times Square!

Studio: The Mill

Title Logo Concept Design

Studio: Elastic
CD: Hazel Baird

Design

Studio: Visual Creatures
Creative Director: John Cranston, Ryan McNeely

Style Frame/Productions Designs

Studio: Carbon
Creative Director: Rob Foster

Illustration/Cel Animation/Concept Design

Client: Meta
Studio: Brand New School

Design

Studio: Oddfellows

Concept Designs

Director: Ariel Costa

Show Promo Package Design

Studio: We Are Royale

Unused Concept Design and Illustration

Client: PABLO London

Designed for fun over a zoom call

SHELTER
Amazon Prime

Logo design

Studio: Elastic
Creative Director: Hazel Baird

Trailer Concept Design

Studio: Wild Card Creative

Key Art Design

Studio: Los York

OVERWATCH FALL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Illustration, Concept, Design

Love working with We Are Royale, especially when it’s on such massive brands that allow for creative awesomeness! I was called by the team at WAR at the beginning of the concept phase for Overwatch’s 2020 Fall Marketing Playoff Campaign brainstorming process. After listening to the brief and how the team at Overwatch wanted to evolve their previous year’s aesthetic and feel, I went into a deconstructed graphic/comic-book narrative that allowed us to feature the player and mascot of each Overwatch League team in such a way that championed the action while doubling down on the COOL. Halftone dot patterns brought us back into that graphic narrative vibe while Jack Kirby’s legendary KRACKLE boosted our designs to the next level. I grew up on comics and being able to draw characters in such dynamic hero poses for a worldwide video game phenomenon was truly EPIC. Thanks We Are Royale!

Client: We Are Royale
Art Director: Mike Arangeli

Design/Illustration

50 & FOREVER

Amazon Audible

Campaign Design

Studio: MAKINE

Style Frames

Studio: Hue and Cry

DUNE Concept Illustrations

Studio: Visual Creatures
Creative Directors: John Cranston, Ryan McNeely

Concept Design and Illustration

Studio: Sibling Rivalry

Concept Design

OFFF Barcelona 2023 Opening Film

Studio: Framestore
Creative Directors: Timothy Williams, Jake Cuddihy

Concept Design and Illustration

Studio: MOCEAN
Creative Director: Burke Miles

Style Frames

Studio: Elastic

Style Frames

Welcome to Wrexham S2 Marketing

Studio: Awesome Inc.

Concept Design

Studio: We Are Royale

Design

Client: Ranger & Fox

Creative Director: Jared Doud

Concept Illustration and Design

Studio: We Are Royale
Creative Director: Brien Holman

Style Frames

Studio: BNS LA

Title/Marketing/Branding Design

Studio: JXTWO

Logo/Branding Concept Design

Studio: Mocean

Illustration and Design

Client: Brand New School
Creative Director: Scott Uyeshima

Design

Studio: Foreign Affairs

Concept Design Style Frames

Studio: Framestore

Design

Studio: Visual Creatures

CD: John Cranston

Design

Studio: Visual Creatures

Exploration & Concept Design (Pitch)

Paramount Animation
Client: Brand New School
Creative Director: Rob Bisi

Design

Studio: Framestore
Creative Director: Scott Rachwalski
Animators: Jordan Taylor, Matt Beharry, David Quiray

Style Frames

Studio: Brand New School
CD: Chloe Greene

Design

Broadcast design for HBO pilot

Title Concept Design & Layout

Working hand in hand with my long time friends at BLUR, the concept revolved around the patient/therapist dynamic, mirroring imagery to conceptually address that process and sounding board relationship. The type is distressed and blurry to reflect what is happening in the minds of these PTSD patients.

AMAZON
Client: BLUR Studio
Art Director: Norn Jordan

Logo Design and Marketing Design

Studio: MOCEAN
Creative Director: Norn Jordan

Opening Sequence Concept Design

FX Network
Client: Greenhaus

Concept Design/Illustration

Studio: Brand New School

'EAGLE VIGNETTE' Illustration

Always excited get a shout from our friends at Brand New School, especially when it's to draw for such a cool concept and script like this one! Working hand in hand with BNS, I illustrated the frames for the 'eagle sequence' of this spot, following the established palette and tone set forth by their talented team.

Client: Brand New School
Art Director: Andres Rivera

I had the badass pleasure of designing my good buddy Chef Adam Sobel’s new fast casual concept ‘PIZZA HERO.’ Look out for these restaurants nationwide in 22’ - incredible pizza, awesome vibe, LET’S GO!

DARE ME
Key Art/Branding/Opening Titles Concept Design

Studio: MOCEAN LA
Creative Director: Burke Miles

Concept Design

Studio: Brand New School

Mens Pajamas, Boys Shirts and Bedding Line Available at Targets Nationwide in Fall 2018 and 2019

Comforters, Sheets, Pillow Shams, Throw Pillow, Plush Throw

Main On End Title Illustration, Design

We were approached by Jenn Miller of Blur Studios to add an illustrative concept into their pitch for the end titles for the 2014 sequel to THOR. The concept was to be dark, moody, painterly, and kinetic, sticking to a monotone color palette with red accents for the main man's cape. After hearing that our style was chosen, I worked hand in hand with Blur and went on to paint over 65 digital, production-ready paintings in Photoshop, combining scanned brush strokes with original brushes over stills from the film. This remains one of my favorite projects of all time.

Check out the full CASE STUDY

MARVEL/Disney
Client: Blur Studio
Creative Director: Jenn Miller
Art Director: Norn Jordan
Animation: Deva George, Phil Hoeschen , Allen Donhauser, Nick Lyons

Opening Title Design and Logo Design

VH1
Client: Visual Creatures
Creative Directors: Ryan McNeely and John Cranston

Promo Bumper Design/ Illustration (Unused)

FX

Client: Awesome Inc

Pitch Frames Illustration & Design

Honda Civic
Client: Brand New School LA
Art Director: Scott Uyeshima

Illustration/Writing

FOX Home Entertainment
Client: Neuron Syndicate

SILVER CLIO AWARD WINNER 2018 - HOME ENTERTAINMENT PACKAGE

End Title Sequence Concept and Design (Pitch)

MARVEL/Disney
Client: BLUR
Creative Director: Jenn Miller
Art Director: Norn Jordan

Concept Design

Client: BUCK

Illustrations and Design

Studio: Brand New School
Creative Director: Scott Uyeshima

Concept Design for Marketing Season 2

Studio: Big Picture

Type Design and Layout

The amazingly cool folks at We Are Royale reached out to collaborate on the typography design and overall copy layout of the first spots for their incredible work for UNDER ARMOUR. The existing edit was kinetic and cutty, utilizing multiple split screen shots to echo the pacing of the piece, so instilling a strong foundation of typography to hit their copy points was a challenge early on. Once we started repeating type, cropping some off of the frame, and experimenting with the plus/minus signs, the piece came together for all involved! An absolute joy to work on and hopefully the first of many with We Are Royale!

Client: We Are Royale
Director: Chad Howitt

‘RIP-OFF THE RAINBOW’
Concept Design, Style Frame Creation, Illustration

When Vitamin Pictures calls, CLAUSie answers! Working closely with longtime friend and collaborator Danny Delpurgatorio, the chief creative director at Vitamin, we created a ridiculously colorful, spastic, chaotic yet refined world of Skittley goodness! And let's not to forget the whole thing was scored by DEVO. Yes, you read that correctly. Best project ever? Only time will tell.

SKITTLES
Client: Vitamin Pictures
Creative Director: Danny Delpurgatorio

Bumper Design

Client: Visual Creatures

Interstitial Bumper Type Design Exploration

Client: BLUR Studio

Main On End Title Concept Design and Illustration (Pitch)

MARVEL/Disney
Client: Sarofsky

Concept Illustrations

NIKE
Studio: BUCK
Creative Director: Rob Bisi

Yep, like stick figures, only with way more personality.

Bringing my love of figurative and gestural drawing to my love of sports

Long Live Happy Accidents

END TITLE CONCEPT DESIGN (Pitch)

Getting a call to concept on the end title sequence of what was surely to become the highest grossing movie of all time doesn’t happen every day. Another thanks to our friends at Sarofsky for thinking of us as we plunged head first into the endeavor. Our idea was simple, celebrate the characters, actors, and make it for the fans. We added the signatures by each actor’s name to make it feel personalized and unique, almost like a ‘sign-off’ in a way. We went with a halftone dot pattern execution in many of the designs to harken back to the origins of these heroes in the comics, and we kept a gritty feel to make it feel like a notebook, the origins for each and every movie’s scripts. Even though MARVEL didn’t got with this direction, we were told that the directors, Joe and Anthony Russo referred to this direction as ‘visually arresting.’ Not bad!

MARVEL/Disney
Client: Sarofsky
Creative Director: Erin Sarofsky

All Artwork Property of Disney/MARVEL

Concept Design

Studio: Mirada/ Trailer Park

Concept Design and Illustration for Cinemacon Graphics (Unused)

Warner Bros

Client: Trailer Park

Illustration Concept Design (Pitch)

Client: Brand New School NY

End Titles Concept Design (Pitch)

SONY/MARVEL
Client: BLUR
Creative Director: Jenn Miller
Art Director: Norn Jordan

CHILDREN'S BOOK

Happi is missing! Join Loch Ness and his friends as they search for Happi, only to learn a valuable lesson along the way.

'FINDING HAPPI NESS' TRADEMARK AND COPYRIGHT JUSTIN C. HARDER, 2019. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Opening Sequence Design

Thanks to our buddies at Visual Creatures, Ryan McNeely and John Cranston, for having us collaborate on this refresher! The concept was to take what we had done with the previous design and to apply an overall more summer aesthetic, along with new components that directly reference the new ways in which we take in the news, mainly from online news sources. Always love being asked to help out on this campaign, as Visual Creatures does such a fantastic job bringing it all to life!

Client: Visual Creatures
Directors: Ryan McNeely and John Cranston