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Craig Simmons Design

Animation art direction, development and design

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Background Paint for "Close Enough" series for HBO Max




 

Posted by craig Simmons at 7:34 PM No comments:
Labels: background color rendered in Photoshop

Background Paint for "Kid Cosmic" series for Netflix




 


Posted by craig Simmons at 7:01 PM No comments:
Labels: background color rendered in Photoshop

Friday, April 12, 2019

Character, Prop and EFX Color Design for Cartoon Network series "Power Puff Girls"


















Posted by craig Simmons at 6:15 PM No comments:
Labels: Character, prop and EFX color rendered in Photoshop

Friday, March 1, 2019

Background Color for "Power Puff Girls" series for Cartoon Network









Posted by craig Simmons at 10:48 PM No comments:
Labels: background color rendered in Photoshop

Friday, April 20, 2018

Background Design and Color for "Rocko's Modern Life" special for Nickelodeon




Posted by craig Simmons at 10:40 AM No comments:
Labels: Designed and created final lineart with India ink and Crow quill pen and painted with Doc Martin's Dyes and finished in Photoshop

Prop Design for "Rocko's Modern Life" special for Nickelodeon


Posted by craig Simmons at 10:31 AM 1 comment:

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Background Design for "Rocko's" Modern Life" special for Nickelodeon


Posted by craig Simmons at 6:40 PM No comments:

Background Design for "Rocko's Modern Life" special for Nickelodeon


Posted by craig Simmons at 6:22 PM No comments:

Monday, August 7, 2017

Background Paint for "Close Enough" trailer, a new prime time series for TBS and Cartoon Network







Posted by craig Simmons at 4:38 PM No comments:
Labels: all line art by Alex Dilts, background color rendered in Photoshop

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Background paint for "The Royals", a Cartoon Network mini series





Posted by craig Simmons at 3:56 PM No comments:
Labels: background color rendered in Photoshop

Background paint for "The Regular Show: The Movie"



Posted by craig Simmons at 3:50 PM No comments:
Labels: background color rendered in Photoshop and watercolor

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Earmouse and Bottle development color for Nickelodeon shorts program








Posted by craig Simmons at 2:56 PM 1 comment:
Labels: Developed color style and rendered all backgrounds in Photoshop on a Cintiq
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craig Simmons
Thousand Oaks, CA, United States
Most currently worked as a Background Painter for the shorts program at Cartoon Network. Recently worked as a Background Painter and Color Stylist on Power Puff Girls for Cartoon Network. Worked as a Background Painter on the new TBS prime time series "Close Enough" for Cartoon Network. Worked as a Background Designer and Painter for the "Rocko's Modern Life" special for Nickelodeon. Prior to that I worked as a background painter in watercolor and Photoshop on "The Regular Show" at Cartoon Network. Developed the background and color style and art directed 10 commercial spots for McDonalds. Worked for 12 years as art director, development designer and design supervisor at Klasky Csupo, the last 3 years as Director of Development Art as well as overseas art director for the Rocket Power pilot in Seoul, Korea. Was color design supervisor at Cartoon Network and Flash color design supervisor at Nickelodeon and Flash and background color designer at Film Roman. Worked as background and color designer and development artist for Pink Panther and Pals for Cartoon Network. Was freelance background and color designer for Wild Brain web series "Barbie's Fashionistas" and "Monster High".
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