Some time ago, Phil Boutte hit me to do some 3d explorations of Blue Beetle's helmet and the final version of Carapax for 9B collective. I was honored that he really wanted me to bring the amazing lines of Tiago Datrinti's art to life as well as push my own aesthetic into the design. Ultimately, it was a merging of many minds and I'm honored to not only give a proof of concept for the helmet, but also have the final look of the 3rd form of the villain in the film.
Back in 2020, costume designer Julian Day graciously contacted me to illustrate some of his ideas on the Moon Knight show. We didn’t start with Mr. Knight, but I dig these illustrations, we were def having fun! Ultimately, Marvel Visdev controlled the look of the show, but this is just some examples of what the first costume designer and I were up to.
When Costume Designer Lizz Wolf recruited me onto Creed 3 in 2021, it’s safe to say that we as country had collectively, lived thru some craziness. After a lot of conversation, the idea of draping Adonis/Michael in the American flag regalia of Apollo Creed felt rather…irresponsible to the moment.
So, the challenge was, how do you reinterpret something so iconic? This is where Lizz’s genius shined thru for me because she put Theaster Gates and David Hammons on my plate. She knew and was unafraid of where this had to go, and we were off to the races.
In these illustrations, the robe’s stripes are made completely out of fire hoses, giving honor to Theaster’s work. As the robe goes from front to back, it morphs from the muted tone of red, white and blue, to the colors of the Pan-African flag, giving honor to the work of David Hammons. The stars, references folded flags and hand wraps (my own two cents).
This robe is fully American, fully Black, and fully Creed.
For Damien, when Lizz started describing him to me, he was pitched as feeling like a motherless child with no sense of belonging, and whose dreams were perceived to be stolen. From that hollow, brutality grew, so, there was a lot to work with!
In the beginning, she really pushed the use of West African fabrics because of how important the rumble in the jungle was to Dame, but as we found out more about him, I pitched the narrative of Anansi, the West African trickster god, due to Dame’s fighting style, and it surprisingly hit!
Like the Adonis robe, the story that Lizz built around Dame’s clothing was deep and incredibly well researched, which made it quite easy to come and imagine what this guy might look like!
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For Jupiter's Legacy, I was recruited by Lizz Wolf to help bring characters to life as well as conceptualize ideas for 3d printed materials. We went thru many iterations to get to the finality of some of what you see here. The goal was to make everything feel unique, while still paying homage to the comic and having characters be able to fit into the world that was created for the live action show, a truly tough balance. But, I'm pleased with the end result.
For this canceled 3d animated movie, I had the great pleasure to work along side an amazing group of illustrators and story board artists and a GREAT director, and translate descriptions and beautiful/painterly paintings into 3d to begin the process f working with vfx. A majority of the work you see below was me translating Justin Sweet's paintings into 3d. It's a shame the movie was canceled.
Costume Designer J.R. Hawbaker reached out to me to help bring to life a capsule collection for Moda Operandi, inspired by the film she was designing on, Amsterdam. We worked together with jewelry designer, Augustus Poppleton, and I created 3d representations of what the final product would look like.