Unnatural Acts Storyboards and Character Designs

2001 : Art & Design

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“Unnatural Acts” was an early Flash webisode series that allowed users to interact with the show and vote for favored acts. Modeled after The Gong Show, each webisode featured flagrantly cheesy and casually raunchy performances by atypical individuals who collectively relaxed the meaning of “talent”. The San Francisco-based comedy troupe, Killing My Lobster, wrote the acts and provided the voice talent.

I designed several of the characters for the show and, working closely with the writing team and the show’s producers, I created brief storyboards of each performers’ acts and the means by which each act could be “tormented”. I then served as the animation director for the series and programmed the show in Actionscript.

Client:

ImaginEngine for Wildbrain Studios
2001

Details:

Hand-drawn images and Adobe Photoshop.