Welcome to My Video Portfolio
Welcome to Game Art Studio’s media page. This area of Game Art Studio contains various animations, advertising spots, television shows and films Tom Tonkin has helped to concept and/ or illustrate storyboards for.
The storyboards or animatics used for the production are displayed along side portions of the actual produced film or video project.
ATT "Troy" –04
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About This Project
Director: Erick Ifergan
Agency: Young and Rubicam
Production Company: Believe Media
Trailer/commercial for game Zoo Tycoon II- ‘03
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About This Project
Tom Tonkin met with Animators and writers at San Francisco’s New Pencil Studios where he helped brainstorm and take visual notes to create storyboards/ animatics used for the production. The project included a few field trips to the San-Francisco Zoo by Tom and the animation team for reference and inspiration.
The fly through schematic was a diagram for animators to follow as they created everything with CGI animation. The storyboards were used for concept presentation to Microsoft as well as an initial guide for animators.
NBC, Saturday Night Live- ’05
Parody commercial ”Taco Town”. Producer/Director: Jim Signorelli.
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About This Project
These parody spots for SNL are shot using storyboards to coordinate graphics, animations etc. with script and actors dialogue. The storyboards become very helpful in shooting these shorts on a very tight production schedule. Often the spots are shot the morning before aired on SNL.
Pop Questions – ‘04 (pilot for VH1)
About This Project
Produced by Varsity Entertainment. Tom Tonkin on camera as a NYPD sketch artist taking clues from various episodes of the TV show Cheers and creating an on camera composite of Character Vera.