Design > Ninja Turtles

More designs for the 2001 Teenage Mutnat Ninja Turtles movie proposal

Design > Zyboria

Some revamped ZYBORIA designs, with a digital 'wash 'n brush-up' by 2000AD's Boo Cook

Design > Totem

Brendan: I lived in Vancouver for about 4 years on and off when I was designing REBOOT and all those animated mainframe shows... I created a 'first nation superhero' based on the totem culture of the Pacific Northwest native Amnerican tribes. The art of this region is stunning, especially the masks and mythological sculptures. Even Vancouver airport has a amazing sculpture of Raven creating mankind.

The photographic images in this presentation are not by me, but I was using them as reference for the TOTEM cgi animated TV series I had proposed. I may even turn TOTEM into a comic series... I think it could be quite a bit different to the usual stuff out there.

Design > Horrorville

Brendan: Designs for a surreal horror game and movie project. Sort of Mad Max meets Nightmare Before Christmas... So keep yer eyes peeled!

Design > Captain Cracking

Brendan: This was a spin-off from the Freakwave comic. An attempt to put a pitch together for an animated mini-series, sitting inside the TV series The TUBE - an 'anarchic' music show that was the hippest thing on TV in its day... It all looks so quaint now, though, doesn't it? Treading the inevitable path, from 'Rad' to 'Dad'... Oh dear.

Design > Thunderbirds

Brendan: "These designs were from a version of the THUNDERBIRDS live action movie that was developed by Working Title Films in London, with the director, Peter Hewitt, some years ago. I was hired to design new versions of the vehicles and costumes. I was going for a sixties style, to evoke the flavour of the original TV series, but obviously, updated. The idea was that the Baldwin brothers were going to play the Tracy gang with Robert Redford as Jeff Tracy. As we all know, this version didn't make it as the producers grew nervous and then hired Star Trek's Jonathan Frakes to start over from scratch... I can assure you, I had nothing to do with what followed."

Design > Coneheads

Some design artwork for the Coneheads movie.

Design > Mutant Turtles 2001

Here are some more designs from the Steve Barron 2001 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles proposal...

Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd

Here's some of that exclusive artwork I was talking about. Brendan recently did some storyboard work for Tim Burton’s new film Sweeney Todd...

Brendan: “I worked on designs for the opening credits for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. It's almost shot for shot how I boarded it!”

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opens in the UK on January 25th.