Pete Oswald

RIDERMAN

2011-11-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

Here's my contribution for the KAMEN RIDER vs SUPER SENTAI exhibition at Q POP.

8.5''x11'' Digital

ParaNorman Teaser Trailer

2011-11-01T22:23:00.000-07:00

I spent all of last year working on this. So many talented artists up at Laika. Looking forward to the final film in August.

IT'S A SMALL WORLD

2011-09-12T10:45:00.000-07:00

Gallery Nucleus is hosting an exhibit for the release of Joey Chou's children's book. The book pays homage to It's A Small World. He was kind enough to ask me to do a piece for the show. The opening reception is this Saturday September 17th 7pm-10pm.

8x10 digital

ParaNorman officially announced!

2011-05-04T11:31:00.000-07:00

Laika just announced the release of their next movie. It's called ParaNorman and comes out August 17, 2012. I had the pleasure of doing environmental conceptual designs on the film for the past year. This particular illustration was a collaboration between Chris Turnham and myself. It's a fantastic story. I can't wait to see the film next year! Read more

Q Pop

2011-01-31T21:55:00.000-08:00

gouache and mixed media

My friend, Chris Mitchell, just opened a shop/gallery called Q Pop in historic Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. This is my contribution for the grand opening show. The theme of the show was “What is Q Pop.” To me, Q Pop is Los Angeles.

Happy Holidays

2010-12-20T15:32:00.000-08:00

John Wooden

2010-06-07T16:45:00.000-07:00

The Story of Walls is online!

2010-04-30T07:38:00.000-07:00

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The Story of Walls

2009-12-01T19:29:00.000-08:00

I am honored to share that the short I directed called “The Story of Walls” has been nominated for an Annie Award! For the past year and half I had been working with a team to build Badmash Animation Studios from the ground up. The studio was based out of LA, San Francisco and India. I had the amazing opportunity to travel to India for two months and direct this film.

“The Story of Walls” is an absurdist history of trade protectionism. Throughout history, our world has allowed simple misunderstandings, greed, and an all-consuming love of nachos to divide us. To succeed as a people, we must understand that our individual success is based on our collective success. More importantly, we must also understand that there are enough nachos for everyone!

Directed By: Pete Oswald

Written By: Sandeep Sood

Storyboard Artist: Andy Suriano

Art Director: Pete Oswald

Background Layout: Chris Reccardi

Character Layout: Vikram Athavale

Animation Director: Noor Mohammed

Music Composed By: Chad Seiter

Sound Design and Mix By: Alex Levy

We can’t post the film to the web because we are in the process of submitting it to film festivals. So here are some stills. Congrats to everyone who made this possible!

Cloudy Children's Books

2009-10-08T06:01:00.000-07:00

I had the opportunity to illustrate a children's book for Cloudy. You can buy Teamwork! HERE. Below are some pages without the text.

I collaborated with Justin Thompson and Andy Bialk on "The Tasty Tale of Chewandswallow".

Also, I illustrated a few pages on Carey Yost's book "Flint Saves the Day".

Brigette Barrager illustrated "The Weather Report: with Sam Sparks".

Go See Cloudy!

2009-09-18T06:08:00.000-07:00

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs opens today. I saw it earlier this week and was blown away. I am always impressed when I can see the filmmaker’s thumbprint on the final picture.

In designing the characters, we envisioned the simplicity of Miroslav Sasek’s illustrations combined with the charm of the Muppets. We were constantly trying to simplify our shapes, and exaggerate the expression. The animators on the film did an amazing job of maintaining this style throughout the film. Here are some character designs.

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

2009-08-27T09:00:00.000-07:00

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs premieres on September 18th! The film is adapted from the children’s book written by Judi Barrett. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Clone High) are the co-directors and co-writers. Justin Thompson, Production Designer, compiled an amazing visual development team. Carey Yost, Mark Colangelo, and myself were responsible for the final character designs. I am honored to be part of this film. Go see it!

Here are some posters I designed for Flint’s bedroom. I will post some character designs when the film opens.

The Art and Making of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is now available. Special thanks to Tracy Miller-Zarneke.

Doubtsourcing

2009-05-19T19:11:00.000-07:00

I've been helping some friends start an animation studio in Pune, India. We are beginning to pitch our first production, Doubtsourcing. It’s a 2D animated sitcom about global collaboration, or the lack thereof, centered on a dysfunctional IT company in Bangalore, India. Even though most of the characters are Indian, the show is written for Americans. I've had a blast working with the talented crew. Check out the site http://www.badmash.tv/.

Madagascar 2

2008-11-04T07:18:00.000-08:00

Teetsi poses: graphite/ marker
Cape Buffalo color: marker/Photoshop
Dik Dik color: marker/Photoshop
Dik Dik poses: grahite/ prismacolor pencil
Generic male and female Hippos color: marker/ Photoshop
Generic male and female Hippos: graphite/ prismacolor pencil
Turtle, Oxpecker, Flamingo color: marker/ Photoshop
Moto Moto poses: graphite/ prismacolor pencil (based off a design by Andy Bialk)
Moto Moto expressions: graphite/ prismacolor pencil ( based off a design by Andy Bialk)
Zuba color: marker/ Photoshop (based off a design by Andy Bialk)

About two years ago I had the opportunity to work on Madagascar 2 as a character designer. The amazing Dreamworks/PDI art department was led by, production designer, Kendal Cronkhite. I had the honor to work closely with character designers Craig Kellman and Andy Bialk. Congrats to the entire crew!

The film premieres this Friday, November 7. Go check it out! Also, The Art of Madagascar book by Jerry Beck is now available. The book is full of beautiful artwork. I highly recommend it.

more light studies

2008-09-19T13:52:00.003-07:00

digital
digital

light study

2008-09-03T17:03:00.001-07:00

digital

up or down

2008-07-26T13:01:00.000-07:00

digital

Apartments

2008-07-09T18:40:00.000-07:00

Mumbai, India

pencil/ digital

Alley

2008-06-03T16:56:00.000-07:00

Mumbai, India

pencil/ digital

Sleeping Lady

2008-05-24T14:18:00.001-07:00

Pune, India

pencil/ digital

Honeymoon in Tahiti!

2008-05-14T14:59:00.000-07:00

7'' X 5''

gouache

7.5 ''X 5.5''

gouache
7'' X 3.5''

gouache

Jane

2008-04-23T16:45:00.000-07:00

I'm helping a friend illustrate a children's book. It's about an ant named Jane.
watercolor/digital

India

2008-04-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

Just returned from India. Here are some sketches from my trip. pencil/watercolor/digital

Cereal Killers

2008-01-21T06:46:00.000-08:00

Did this for the Cereal Killers book. There are a lot of amazing artists contributing. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Thanks Von Kreep!

Cereal Killers

Happy Holidaze

2007-12-19T22:32:00.000-08:00

Venice Beach

2007-12-10T15:33:00.000-08:00

I spent the other day in Venice Beach doing research. This guy was skating around talking to pigeons. I love Venice.

More Commercial Development

2007-10-30T14:14:00.000-07:00

Character Design Blog

2007-08-28T06:36:00.000-07:00

A few months back Randall Sly published an interview with me. Go to http://pete-oswald-interview.blogspot.com/ and check it out. Also, check out all the other interviews, there is some amazing stuff. Thanks Randall!

Cinque Terre

2007-08-15T22:50:00.000-07:00

Commercial

2007-06-12T22:15:00.000-07:00

Some friends and myself are making a mock commercial. This is some visual development for the idea.

DWA artshow

2007-02-27T09:22:00.000-08:00

These were done for the "Out of Character" art show on the DreamWorks Animation campus. It's personal artwork by DWA Character Designers. Should be some amazing work by Nico Marlet, Devin Crane, Andy Bialk, Tony Siruno, Patrick Mate, Shane Prigmore, Shannon Tindle, and myself. Not sure if it's open to the public, but if you know someone who works here stop by and check it out.

Sketch

2006-11-04T01:03:00.000-08:00

Here's a sketch I did for a painting I'm working on.

Business Men

2006-10-25T21:36:00.000-07:00

I saw these guys at the airport.

Cowboy and his cattle

2006-08-01T09:07:00.000-07:00

Fall

2006-06-12T19:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a painting I did for the Power In Numbers show at Nucleus. The show opens this Sunday (June 18th). Go!

Trumpet Dance

2006-04-12T17:16:00.000-07:00

Faces

2006-03-10T18:01:00.000-08:00

Tree Trumpet Player

2006-02-27T21:18:00.000-08:00

The Bus Stop

2006-01-19T18:22:00.000-08:00

Collage!

2005-12-27T14:34:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!

2005-12-19T08:10:00.000-08:00

more paintings

2005-12-12T18:44:00.000-08:00

I just finished painting these for my niece and my little brother.

Oli

2005-11-30T21:40:00.000-08:00

I painted this for my nephew, Oliver.

Cartoon Brew!

2005-11-23T11:07:00.000-08:00

Thank you Amid Amidi for the mention on www.cartoonbrew.com. And thank you everyone else for the wonderful words of encouragement. It’s so great to communicate with all these talented artists.

Imaginary Friends

2005-11-20T20:46:00.000-08:00

Here are some imaginary friends I designed for "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" here in lovely Burbank at Cartoon Network.

Children's Book

2005-11-18T13:30:00.000-08:00

My girlfriend and I are in the middle of writing a children's book. The book is about little kids who look like their pets. Here are some rough designs I did in marker.

Main Title Intro

2005-11-16T18:58:00.000-08:00

Little over a year ago I was hired to art direct the main title intro for a pilot of a reality show. The show was never picked up, but I had a lot of fun with the minute and a half intro. Here are some of the designs.

Halloween in New Orleans

2005-11-16T18:18:00.000-08:00

Well, after getting pressured by a few friends I decided to give this whole ‘blog thing’ a shot. So here’s my first post. This is a painting I did for a New Orleans benefit art show on Halloween. It was hosted by my friends Tony C and Steph Choi at Six Point Harness Studios. The painting is acrylic on wood, 22x22 inches. Thanks you guys for the great party!