Contact me at jb@julianbevan.com
All work art directed by Julian Bevan unless otherwise noted
All work below the VH1Classic ID package was produced at EyeballNYC
Nostradamus:2012 was produced at Leroy & Clarkson
All work above Metal Mania was produced at Stardust

•     VH1 2009 HIP HOP HONORS - TRIBUTE TO DEF JAM
  
  Back on the Hip Hop Honors for the third time in six years. This year was a tribute to Def Jam, so I had to dig deep in the crates for inspiration. We settled on a mostly wireframe look, in honor of Def Jam's iconic wireframe tonearm drawing that is printed on all of their 12" singles. 3D animator Carey Janks did an amazing job on developing the show open with me. Fabian Tejada brought it all home, as usual, doing all of the compositing. Alex Moulton of Expansion Team did a great job on the music. It was a labor of love for all of us. I posted a few photos from the show, as well as some of the original storyboards, in the BLOG section of this site. Thanks again to Phil Delburgo, Kham Souk Kham, Jimmy Fingers, and the staff of VH1 for helping us get through this.
  
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•     AT&T BEAT CITY
  
  BIG UPS: This job is probably about the most complex CG job I've ever worked on. None of it would have gotten finished without the contributions of these people: Alan Bibby (director and master of all time/space/dimension), Greg Anderson, Andrew Borin, Tae Kim, Aaron Mauer, Neil Tsai, Jonathan Wu, Glenn Urieta, Keith McCabe, Tom Cushwa, Scott Denton, Atsuki Hirose, Weichieh Yu, Christian Day, Lee Wolland, Carmine Laietta, Christian Day, Anton Tokar, Miles Southan, Scott Hubbard, Pat Porter, Miles Southan, Robin Roepstorff, Eric Concepcion, Mirelle Underwood, Forbes Hill, Mitch Deoudes, Ryan O'Phelan, Tonya Smay, Eric Bauer, and Chris Lohouse. We all wanted an extra month to sweeten it but, as they say, tiempo es dinero.
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•     CAPRI SUN
  
  BIG UPS: The Naked Brothers Band is pretty much the second coming of Led Zeppelin, except they totally suck. My brother from another mothe,r Fabian Tejada, was lead designer and animator, hooking up all the graphic patterns that make the kids go crazy these days. Fabian has now moved to Sobro and insists that he is "chillin' maaaaaaaaan".
  
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•     IBM PGA & IBM NFL
  
  BIG UPS: This was a series of spots we did for IBM. The first was to air during the superbowl and the second during the US Open. All of the footage was hand tracked.
  
  
  
  
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•     BLOOM ENDTAG
  
  BIG UPS: This is quick little endtag for the Bloom grocery store chain. Tae Kim did the character designs and Tim Regan animated the whole thing
  
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•     BETTE MIDLER IS MY HOMEGIRL
  
  BIG UPS: Big up to Bette Midler AKA "The Divine Miss M". She used her own money to save a lot of the community gardens in NYC, and that makes her A Number One in my book. This was a 5 minute piece created for the backdrop of her disasterous Vegas show, where she recited a monologue about death on a giant white staircase that rotates and becomes a ship at some point, slowly sailing out of the scene. Can't make this shit up. I have not included the quicktime because, in all honesty, it is too boring to watch. A sepia-ish lake scene slooooowly transforms to a winter wonderland over five minutes. Emie Lee did the original boards for this.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
•     WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
  
  BIG UPS: Another all-hands-on-deck STARDUST job. Alan Bibby directed the live action. The rest of the team included Ryan O'Phelan, Tae Kim, Aaron Maurer, Cary Janks, John Karian, Christian Day, Mark Rohr, Mirelle Underwood, Tonya Smay, Eric Bauer, Atsuki Hirose, Tom Cushwa, Kristian Mercado, Jess Mireau, and Carlos Rosa.
  
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•     METAL MANIA
  
  BIG UPS: Phil, Amanda, Jim, Gary and Grace at VH1 - My peoplez. I hadn't done all of the production on a job in quite some time. It was a real labor of love, and it got me back in touch with my metal side, thank god (see BLOG). Expansion Team did the music, and they kicked ass as usual.
  
  
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•     NOSTRADAMUS 2012 **I WON AN EMMY FOR THIS. NO LIE!**
  
  BIG UPS: This is a promo for The History Channel's absurd show about Nostradamus and 2012. This promo was a joint collaboration with Leroy & Clarkson's wunderkind Kyle Baron Cohen and myself. We wrote the script and edited the piece with stock footage in about 3 days. John Smith did the graphics. Daniel Fries was the creative director. The show turned out to be the 3rd highest rated show in the history of the channel, and we even won an EMMY for it. Go figure.
  
  
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•     VH1CLASSIC ID PACKAGE
  
  BIG UPS: The VH1 crew again, for having faith in this wacky idea. I had originally pitched this pictogram idea as a design concept for the Tuesday Twoplay show package. One of those projects that makes you say "My life can't be all that bad if I'm getting paid to sit around and think up a visual representation for the Accept song BALLS TO THE WALL!".
  
  
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•     JEEP BIGGER AND DEFFER
  
  BIG UPS: Jason Conradt was lead designer/animator on this spot, and without him it would have really sucked. Stuart Simms and Vance Miller are the super braniacs that made this CG car look fucking real. You gotta see this full res to appreciate the render quality of that car. Shit is crazy, yo.
  
  
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•     VH1 ROCK HONORS 2006
  
  BIG UPS: Stuart Simms, aside from being CG director, was essentially a co-designer along with Cassidy Gearheart and myself. Both of them made a tremendous contribution to the entire project. We had a massive 3D team to handle the character animation (Ricardo Vicens, Ray Ross, Joe Gunn, Carl Mok, Attila Zalanyi, Lee Wolland).
  
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•     VH1 HIP HOP HONORS 2004
  
  BIG UPS: Brian Sensebe was lead animator on this entire project. Both he and Carl Mok really outdid themselves. Brian and Neil Stuber contributed drawings of their own as well. And Ghazia Jalal did an incredible job creating cell animations from the still artwork.
  
  
  edited montage show open dj hollywood graffiti movement kool herc krs one public enemy rock steady crew run dmc sugarhill gang tupac shakur
  
  
•     CINGULAR EVOLUTION
  
  BIG UPS: Jens Mebes was co-art director on this spot. CG wizardry is all Stuart Simms, Vance Miller, and the rest of the EyeballNYC staff..
  
  
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•     COMEDY CENTRAL HOLIDAY IDs
  
  BIG UPS: These concepts were originally the brainchild of Carlo Vega and John Lake Harvey, two very twisted individuals (especially JLH...WTF?). They were further developed and refined by all three of us. Gotta give props to both Limore Shur and Kendrick Reid from Comedy Central from believing in such a wacky idea. Carlo Vega and Brian Sensebe were lead animators.
  
  
  
  thanksgiving ID chanukah ID christmas ID new year's eve ID new year's day ID valentine's day ID fourth of july ID halloween ID st patricks day thowaway ID
  
  
•     MTV V5 SLIDER
  
  BIG UPS: Fabian Tejada and Danny Kamhaji were lead animators.
  
  
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•     CMT OUTLAWS
  
  BIG UPS: Carlo Vega was lead designer/animator for all of these, which is why they are so fucking cool.
  
  
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•     BEST BUY TUNNELVISION
  
  BIG UPS: Carl Mok was the super genius who figured this Escher-esque spot out. Carlo Vega did the background designs which kick ass..
  
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•     AIGA MOVE
  
  BIG UPS: Brian Sensebe was lead animator on this spot.
  
  
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•     CMT PURE IDs
  
  BIG UPS: Carlo Vega was co-art director and also lead designer/animator. Seth Ricart and Cassidy Gearhart also contributed on both the design and animation side.
  
  
  
  bar ID bridge ID city ID diner ID fields ID mobile home ID truck ID
  
  
•     ADULT SWIM CHRISTMAS
  
  BIG UPS: I designed the characters and art directed the spot. Stuart Simms directed the CG team with his elfkin magic.
  
  
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•     MOS DEF MS. FAT BOOTY
  
  BIG UPS: This was an insane 4-day no-sleep marathon collaboration between Limore Shur, Daniel Fries, myself, and a gang of freelancers. Rawkus came to us with an incredibly sucky video and said "Make it cool. You've got 4 days". Mos def hung around to approve and things went pretty smooth. Tom Downs re-edited the original video.
  
  
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•     BEST BUY MP3
  
  BIG UPS: CG master Stuart Simms and his crack squad of robot-loving nerds made this thing what it is.
  
  
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•     MAC COSMETICS
  
  BIG UPS: Tamar Samir and Rachel Riggs were lead animators.
  
  
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•     COMEDY CENTRAL PROMO TOOLKIT
  
  BIG UPS: About a year after we lost the Comedy Central re-design pitch, they came back to us and said "OK, were ready to do the stuff you designed". Funny thing is, I told Kendrick "you're gonna want our shit in about a year, trust me!". We were just living in the not-too-distant future and he couldn't handle the realness. You can see some of the original storyboards for these in the FLAT section of this site. We had a ton of animators work on these and each person brought something new to my original boards.
  
  
  
  
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•     McDONALD'S McRIB
  
  BIG UPS: This was the first real commercial I ever directed. I also did all of the illustration for the environments.
  
  
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•     MTV MADE
  
  BIG UPS: Super-simple, down-and-dirty, lightning-fast turnaround MTV promo, but for some reason I still really like this..
  
  
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•     BEST BUY BACK TO SCHOOL
  
  BIG UPS: This was the last Best Buy spot I did at Eyeball. Cassidy Gearheart was lead animator. Johan Weinberg did lots of flawless motion tracking to make this possible. .
  
  
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•     COMEDY CENTRAL REMIXED IDs
  
  BIG UPS: Brian Sensebe was lead designer/animator on these. He seriously kicked ass. He also smells.
  
  
  
  
  graffiti ID boogie nights ID circuit ID dominoes ID flowers ID galaxy ID mirrors ID pinball ID rollercoaster ID washing machine ID
  
  
•     SHONEXT DJ INFAMOUS
  
  BIG UPS: Tatiana Arocha did the motion graphic portion of this. Alex Moulton did the editing.
  
  
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•     IFC PULP INDIES
  
  BIG UPS: I was lead designer for this job, including coming up with the logo. Rachel Riggs did a lot of the animation.
  
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•     BEST BUY HOLIDAY
  
  BIG UPS: I designed and art directed this spot. The friendly fellows at MOTR did the majority of the animation, and they did a bang up job.
  
  
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•     COMEDY CENTRAL FRIDAY NIGHT STAND UP
  
  BIG UPS: Brian Sensebe was lead designer/animator. Big thanks to Cassandra and all the freelancers and Eyeball staff that appeared in the spot for free.
  
  
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•     TECHNICS DIGITAL
  
  BIG UPS: This was a lot of fun and I was very excited to be working with Technics, a brand very close to every DJs heart. Alex Moulton directed the live action and also edited the spot.
  
  
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•     McDONALD'S WINNING TIME
  
  BIG UPS: This was so long ago I really don't remember anything about this. My bad...
  
  
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•     MTV SUCKER FREE SUNDAYS LAUNCH
  
  BIG UPS: This job was so simple and straightforward I did pretty much everything.
  
  
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•     COMEDY CENTRAL DJ PROMO
  
  BIG UPS: These are goofy as hell but we really had a ball doing them. Major props to Jason Conradt for coming up with the Colbert 360
  
  
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•     COMEDY CENTRAL COMIC REMIX
  
  BIG UPS: This was the very first project I did when I returned to Eyeball after a 2 year hiatus. Also the first time I worked with my boy Fabian Tejada and the first time I met my dear friend Kendrick Reid. Ah memories... It turned out to be one of those spots that new clients would reference over and over again.
  
  
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