I am currently a full time Creative Director at Leroy + Clarkson
Contact me at jb@julianbevan.com or julian@leroyandclarkson.com
All work art directed by Julian Bevan unless otherwise noted

    Leroy + Clarkson


•     ABC DANCING WITH THE STARS SEASON 13
  
  The good folks at ABC once again returned to Leroy & Clarkson for Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars. We created the show opening, two different promotional spots prior to the premiere, and the entire show package. You better believe that everything with DWTS is "bling bling" x 1000, so I became very well versed in the gratuitous use of sparkles, lens flares, and gerbs. Yes, GERBS. Those sparkly little sparks that emanate from a welding gun. Now you know.
  
  This was probably the most complex show package I have ever worked on. There were hundreds of deliverables, with multiple versions of everything for the show's different specials and highlights and god knows what.
  
  We did a week of live action shooting in Los Angeles with the cast of the show. This took place at the beautiful Orpheum Theater downtown. We also created a 3D model of the Orpheum, for shots we didn't have time to shoot, like the outdoor marquee, and all of the promotional stuff that needed to be on air prior to the shoot with the cast. L+C's founder , ECD, and my 10th grade school skipping partner in crime Daniel Fries was in the director's chair.
  
  Erin Kilkenny was the lead designer on the L+C side for the look and feel. Myself and Yuki Nakajima filled in the gaps. We had a giant animation & editing team working around the clock for months to get it all done: Yuki Nakajima, John Magbanua, AJ Kolb, Ronn Iam, Tom Lynch, Alex Gasowski, Chris Harmon, Jared Williams, Ray Lee, editor Corey Weisz, TD wizard Jon Smith, and last but not least my producer Rosanne Raposo, who miraculously juggled our 15 different clients and kept this behemoth on the road and on schedule for the duration.
  
  
  
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•     FOX MLB SATURDAY BASEBALL
  
  Forget Glenn Beck, BIll O'Rielly, and those frightening, doe-eyed, blonde automaton newscasters, this is BASEBALL for cryin' out loud. You know… America's pastime?
  
  We were thrilled to design the promo package for the 2011 MLB Saturday Baseball on Fox. We went with a very retro look, doing lots and lots of research on old neon signs that thankfully still dot the Brooklyn skyline. Erin Kilkenny was the lead designer for L+C. The schedule was insanely tight, so we outsourced the 3D to the Venice Beach offices of Detroit auto animating veterans SpeedShape. This meant I got to spend a week chilling in a boutique hotel in Venice, eating dinner in fancy farm-to-table restaurants with ex-girlfriends. Not a bad deal at all.
  
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•     VH1 DO SOMETHING AWARD TROPHY
  
  This is technically not a motion piece, but I don't really know where else to put it, so please bear with the abrupt change in format.
  
  Back in February of 2010, I was approached by Phil Del Burgo, Jim Fitzgerald, and Jimmy Fingers from VH1 for an exciting new project. They needed a design for a physical award to be given out at a new award show they were launching. VH1 had partnered with an organization called Do Something. Do Something gives grant money to young people under 25 who are doing good / changing the world, through non-profits, volunteer work, and the like. They needed a physical trophy to give the recipients, as well as a logo/brand identity. Jimmy asked me to collaborate with our old friend and dope-as-fuck artist ESPO (aka Steve Powers) to come up with the grand concept for the award.
  
  The task was to dream up something iconic, aspirational, wholly unique, emobodying the spirit of kids, and would look awesome on stage in the hands of the recipients. In addition, if we could work in the exclamation point from the existing DS brand - all the better. ESPO and I presented a whole mess of initial brainstorm ideas. If you really want to read them all, click the PDF link below.
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  These are some of the initial concept sketches.
  
  
  
  I was really pulling for the bat signal idea, but alas, it was not to be. Below are some of the final sketches that resulted from the first few meetings. I did most of these from poolside at the Four Seasons in Colonia, Uruguay. Not a bad workspace, I can assure you.
  
  
  
  The winged sneaker was chosen as the winner. Credit for this actually goes to my good friend Melinda Gray, who suggested it during a group brainstorming exercise in Buenos Aires. She gets mad props. So I gathered a bunch of sneaker reference and went about designing a high top sneaker with wings - something I had never dreamed I would ever be doing, mind you. The web was full of sneaker pics, and the wings were an easy thing to picture, as I had spent so much of my childhood drawing superheroes like Thor and Hawkman.
  
  
  
  The above sketch was given to a company in NY called Award Society, who sent it to China for a mold to be sculpted by hand from a hunk of clay. Below are some photos of the clay models we recieved over the next few months. I would take the photos and alter them in photoshop, with notations in red, then send them back to China (last photo).
  
  
  
  
  
  Simultaneoulsy, I was designing a logo to be inspired by the award. Here's some of the original sketches.
  
  
  
  
  The final logo that was chosen and refined. On the right is some of the key art that VH1 produced.
  
  
  
  The award show was really cool, and I was a bit shocked at how good it felt to be part of it in my own measly way. The kids were truly inspiring. And even the celebrities they honored were doing an incredible amount of good in the world. The shoe was everywhere. On stage in the hands of recipients. In the graphics. In Pepsi commercials. It was pretty cool.
  
  
  This is Wilfredo Perez Jr. He's the first person in his family to graduate from high school. Before starting medical school, Willfredo spent a year in Haiti, where he created a Public Health and Education Program. He trained 16 Haitians to be public health workers, treating 1200 patients.
  
  
  The girl on the left is Jacqueline Muraketete. She was a survivor of the Rwanadan genocide. She founded the Jacqueline's Human Rights Corner in 2007 to educate people all over the world about genocides of the past. Delivering over 100 speeches at schools in the last 3 years. She recently opened a community center in her Rwandan village.
  
  Alyssa Milano won an award for using Twitter to raise $92,000 for clean water wells in Ethiopia. Sadly I wasn't there to get her to sign my VHS copy of "Embrace of The Vampire"
  
  
  Snoop D-O-double G won an award for all the work he does with little league sports teams. This is the second award of mine that he has held in his hands. We're practically married.
  
  
  The girl in blue is Jessica Posner. She won the $100,000 grand prize. She co-founded a community center in the Kibera slum in Nairobi to combat gender inequity and poverty. 66% of girls in Kibera trade sex for food as early as age six, and only 8% of women in Kibera ever attend school. Through the Kibera School for Girls, the first free school in Kibera, and the Shining Community Center, Jessica has helped over 5,700 residents gain education and employment.
  
  For the 2011 show, VH1 asked UK design dudes ILOVEDUST to give the logo and show a more hand-drawn look and feel. I like what they did with it. You can check out more of their work at the link below.
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  This year's recipients included the following personal heroes of mine. Do you realize I am now only ONE DEGREE away from The Biebz? ONE DEGREE!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Last week VH1 told me they are in negotiations with Nike to create a limited run of sneakers next year, inspired by my design for the award. These would be given to the recipients and sold in limited quantities I guess. So that might be kinda cool too.
  
  
  
  
•     FUSE VIDEO ON DEMAND ID
  
  Super quick little package we created for the Fuse Network. There were a few deliverables but this was my favorite. Ronn Iam did the animation. Black Iris did the sound design.
  
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•     DIGITAS "INFO" FOR COMCAST XFINITY
  
  In addition to the hundreds of spots we create for Comcast each year(via the Digitas agency), in 2010 L+C created a one-off spot to promote Comcast's broadband capabilities. The theme was pixels and bits of data streaming through the void, getting bottlenecked by the interwebz, then finally being set free by the glorious Xfinity broadband. If I told you how many times I re-animated this funnel, you would never believe me. It became one of Comcast's most successful media buys ever, and continues to run to this day.
  
  The L+C team included Jon Smith, Darius Maghen, AJ Kolb & Emilio Carnero. The 3D magic was outsourced to my old friend and Eyeball alum Stuart Simms and his team of super geniuses at CeruleanCGI.
  
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•     COOKING CHANNEL NETWORK LAUNCH
  
  When The Food Network was launching its sister network The Cooking Channel, they asked L+C to pitch on the design package for the network. The task fell to myself & Kyle Baron Cohen. In the process of preparing our graphic pitch, we interviewed a whole host of "foodies", the channel's target demographic. We showed an edit of these interviews during our pitch, and they liked them so much that they told us to skip the whole network design thing, and just create a series of promo spots featuring interviews with foodies. We were more than happy to oblige. Trust me, casting, interviewing, and cutting live action spots is 1000x more interesting than making a million variations of a 2-line lower third. Daniel Fries directed the shoots. Corey Weisz did all of the editing. Below is a few of the longer montages. Trollback ended up doing the graphic package.
  
  
  
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•     FOOD NETWORK 2010 HOLIDAY ID PACKAGE
  
  In 2010 I designed and directed a series of network IDs and promo spots for The Food Network. The theme was Cookies Cookies and More Cookies! I became intimately familiar with all things gingerbread. Below is a little montage edit of a bunch of pieces from the various deliverables. Hot Cocoa anybody?
  
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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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    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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    independent


•     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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•     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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    EyeballNYC


•     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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