Art of Adam Watson

Storyboards, Cartoons, Illustration www.themightyadam.com

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Animatic showing my storyboards introducing Amazon Inspire. 

The final, fully animated video can be seen here: https://www.amazoninspire.com/access

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I’m very excited to share my first commercial storyboard, a co-branded spot for Amazon Echo and Jaguar F Pace. The final spot can be seen here: https://www.amazon.com/Command-Performance-Jaguar-Pace-Amazon/dp/B01GVTEELO

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This is an animatic of a storyboard, done solely for self promotion, starring Dracula and a solar powered car. 

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This is a self-promotion board i did for a hypothetical app for teachers. 

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Beat boards for a local community-based social meet-up app. 

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Here’s a bunch of work in progress. I’m learning After Effects and am having a blast. There’s some flash and photoshop animation mixed in there, too.  You can see higher quality (HTML5) versions here: http://themightyadam.com/animation/ 

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With the intro out of the way, now we can get to the interesting stuff!

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More bees!

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Zombie ant! And an Army Ant. 

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Here’s a mock-up I made of a hypothetical (for now) iPhone game. Keeping bees as a hobby, I encounter lots and lots of people who are really interested in trying it themselves but have zero idea where to start or how it works. The more I worked my hives, the more I thought, “Someone could learn all of this from video game.” Provided that the game presented you with plenty of real (but cartoony) scenarios.  So here I have your basic little starter hive, (painted purple, just for fun) which you manage like any farming or resource collection game. You need brood to make workers, workers to collect pollen and nectar. Pollen and nectar makes brood and honey. Sell your honey to expand your apiary, keep raising brood to grow your colonies.  The little grump-o-meter on the right measures the colony’s mood. Take too long to work the hive, or open it up in crappy/cold weather and angry bees are more likely to sting you. Are they angry on a warm sunny day? Maybe check that the queen ran off. Or whatever. Ideally, you’d run into common problems like a poorly-laying queen, robbers from feral hives, maybe a skunk. (Aww, why didn’t I draw a skunk?!) The infamous Varroa mite and Nosema viruses would necessarily play a part, and you’d want to take your little blue truck (at the bottom) to town to buy treatments for those. 

If you present the player with enough real-life knowledge, your little bee lady there would pop up and say “You’re doing a great job! Why don’t you try it in real life? Here is a link to apiary supply stores in your zip code!” Seems to me that’s a fun way to suddenly find a whole lot of hobby beekeepers.

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I am no logo-designer, but I want to share a couple that I did for a proposed food truck. I had a little bit of stuff (like the font) to stick with, but was otherwise given a lot of wiggle room. The primal cuts of Isetta was all him, I just made it look pretty. 

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One more, which i did for a friend’s hand-made baby onesies. 

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Here’s a map for a time-travel game based on this sketch from a while back. 

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I’ve been having fun creating monsters for a (hypothetical) dungeon crawler. There are lots more of these on the way!