CaddyShaq

Creative Director

CaddySHAQ is 1 of 3 projects, total of 12 games I directed at once for Shaquille O'neal inside the popular myVEGAS.

I had the pleasure of originally pitching Shaq with a video game concept. After that I helped lead a company-wide pitch of games to Shaq.

I creatively directed all things Shaq related: Directed Motion Capture Shoot, Voice Over, Game Desgin, all 2D concepts, Supervised Animation and managed internal & external resources. For more info go to my Linkedin.

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Designing Shaq, the Gopher & the world

You name it, I drew it. From concept to creative direction I supervised all of CaddySHAQ. Senior art director, Bob McNeil assisted me in defining the art style early on, completing almost all 2D rendered assets for the game. It was a team effort at the studio, the schedule was very tight on this project. Without my team we would have never finished on time.

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Prop Designs

It was important each prop fit the world of Shaq and felt believable. Each item need the care and thought put into the development of the characters.

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Bonus Game Design

The original bonus game was simple and fun. That was cut in exchange for a full-on 9-hole golf bonus game. All of which had to be the same size as all of the other game titles, which was 5mbs. Knowing that, I designed the bonus game assets to be modular that way I could put each level together like a puzzel saving size on the sprite sheets. Working with Bob (Senior Art Director) he painted each asset to align with one another.

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Pitch v1

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Level Design

Course construction

Fish Tank

Zen Garden

Super Statue

Hammer

Bridge

Magic Hat

Shaq & the Beanstalk

Boombox

Golden Shoe

Final

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I teamed up with my 3D Supervisor (partner in crime) for creating the most stunning 3D game & characters the studio had seen yet. Luckily we both had experience with Motion Capture before as it was a huge team effort to take the data and put it in our game.

Supervising Animation

Photos

Collection of photos over the course of the projects. As a child I would vision myself playing professional basketball.

Needless to say it was a childhood dream to not only meet Shaq but to play him in a pick-up game. (and winning :)

Directing Shaq: 1 Second a Time

Over the course of 2014 I was creating a one second video for myself everyday. I realized I had captured almost my entire experience while working on the Shaq games.