Thursday, October 05, 2006










These are a bunch of pieces of concept work for my film Geirald; the five-legged spider. The first bunch are story beats, and there is also an old concept of Geirald, as well as a watercolour painting with some digital elements.



Geirald is a spider that has difficulty being graceful living with only 5 legs.
A female spider named Portia catches his eye one day, and he aspires to be with her, but an angry spider named Staunch quickly squashes Geirald's goals. In the end Staunch wins over the heart of Portia, and Geirald is heartbroken. A miraculous occurance happens, and Geirald is able to spin brilliant webs.

25 comments:

Andrew Glazebrook said...

All beautiful piccy's !!

Erica Pitt said...

Wow the colours are sooooo beautiful Sam. You have such a painterly quality to these. *jealous*

kelly erwin said...

yep... jealous too erica... I love the way sam hits colour!
nice stuff dude... looks like you killed your pitch hahah

Anna Gopin said...

super nice stuff sam!
The spider is soooo cute, everyone should love spiders now :)

Cinni Minni said...

I LOVE the color. You're awesome at it!

Kyle Marshall said...

really cool stuff here Sam! The colors are rocking!

Raymond Xu said...

Very nice, saw these up on the wall. I love the colour palette, and a 5 legged spider named Gerald? Now that is classic. Cant wait to see the final product.

Lianna said...

Hey Sam! I love your paintings!!!! You're soo good!!!!

kelly erwin said...

see... I told you your awesome!

Cookedart said...

These are really great!

Anonymous said...

very pretty!^^

I saw ur paintings on the window! very nice! Some people can't even get a spot on the window display... but u got a whole window for yourself! yay! lol

h__z said...

really good stuff, sam! saw these on the wall...come to think of it, i've never had anything on that wall...

Jo Bling said...

Beautiful stuff, Sam, terrific spidery goodness. Am a fan of "blue" paintings so the top one really tickles me.

C

Todd Harris said...

sam, these are great. really love your use of color and your style is great. good job, nice blog you have here.

TCBunny said...

awesome color :)

Alex Sinenko said...

I used to have Arachnephobia (fear of spiders, apparently) cuz I was bitten by one when I was like 3 or so. I'm not scared of these, so I think you're good :) haha. Really nice work, I think everyone was a little blown away by your concept pieces.

When I was looking up the word arachnephobia I stumbled upon this site, check it out, some of the phobias are hilarious... fear of asymmetrical shapes???

Dan Elder said...

Very nice. i really like them all. its a interesting take on the underdog type of character.. spiders normally have 8 legs and you took 3 away... I really hope I get to see your film someday. if its anything like the concept work it will be aweseom

Sam said...

thanks for your comments everybody! it was quite an unexpected response, but appreciated all the same!

Troy Little said...

Looks great Sam!

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Jarrett said...

bootiful! love the colors:) You're awesome, Sam.

Robin said...

Hi Sam, I pass your display on the way to my desk everyday, I think it was one of the first ones up, I still stop and stare at it, the colours and style really are adorable!

Can't wait to see your leica on Monday, I'm not exactly sure I know name to face, but I'll ask around and have you pointed out so I can tell you this in person :)

Victor Carlos said...

cant wait to see the film sam...everything is looking real nice.

Victor Carlos said...

i love the painting u got here. the reel was sweeeeeeeeeeeeet sam sweet

Queen Tut said...

That spider is really working me! Lol. great work!