Michael Blackmon II

La Luna Star Catcher is a boardwalk game at Pixar Pier located in Disney California Adventure park.

I had the pleasure of creating some in-store illustrations for Al’s Toy Barn, which is a toy and souvenir shop located at Shanghai Disneyland.

For this Pixar Pier boardwalk game I created the layout and lettering for the counter design. The lettering was first created by hand and then vectorized via Illustrator.

So honored to have been given the opportunity to created the illustrations for a Pixar short documentary called “The Coolest Guy in Show Business” starring Samuel L. Jackson. All of my first drawings as a kid were of comic book art (the Incredible Hulk was my favorite), so this was fun for me. Also, the content dealing with issues of race in America truly resonated with me as an African American myself. This short is included with The Incredibles 2 bonus features.

Had the honor of working with the Pixar Documentaries team, I created the illustrations for this Pixar “Studio Stories” documentary about Pixarpalooza. It was cool getting the chance to work on this because designing the Pixarpalooza posters is actually how I got my foot in the door at Pixar. Directed by Erica Milsom.

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Working closely with the Pixar Documentaries team, I created the illustrations for a Pixar short documentary called “My First Car” starring Kerry Washington. My illustrations were then animated by Chelsea Walton. This documentary is included in the Cars 3 bonus features.

Random thought: The king of Zamunda is the voice of Darth Vader. I like the combo, so I turned that thought into an illustration.

I always knew a Princess could be a President.

When I was a kid one of my favorite scenes in the original Teen Wolf was when he was van surfing. I wish Marty would’ve done that on the DeLorean.

I felt so torn when I was a kid, one of my favorite tv dads was also the voice of one of the best cartoon villains.

This is the Christmas card I designed for my Fiancé and I.  I attempted to capture our personalities in a playful way. I was told by friends and family that I nailed it :) 

This is the "Save-The-Date" I designed for our wedding. The wedding is at the Coeur D'alene, Idaho lakeside resort, so I wanted to capture the look of the lake. Aren't we cute?

This design was done under the direction of Ed Catmull in regard to his book 'Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration' and specifically about the chapter in which he talks about the idea of "Ugly Babies".

The concept of "Ugly Babies" is in reference to the development process and how ideas start off as ugly babies and over time become what we see as the final product. So for this design I used the actual old versions, or the "ugly babies" of Buzz Lightyear lined up similarly to a diagram of the evolution of man (some characters facing the wrong direction, illustrating the difficulty of the process). This poster was given to various creative departments at Disney Animation.

C.R.O.W. (Canoo Races Of the World) Story is an annual internal Disney cast member canoo tournament.  This image will appear on all collateral (banners, pins, t-shirts, etc.).

Pixar social mixer logo. I simply “mixed” three Pixar character silhouettes (Mikey, Mr. Incredible, & Woody).

This was created as a possible Aids Walk poster design featuring Mrs. Incredible.

This logo was created for a very cool social lounge located at Pixar.

This was created as a possible Pixarpalooza t-shirt design. Its simply Wall-E with a Pixarpalooza mixtape head.

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These designs are made up of different types of guitar shapes set up to create the likeness of various Pixar characters. Every single line used to create the images are from the guitar shapes, there are no added lines. Each poster corresponds with a different band and their set time.

This series was inspired by the vintage Chocolat Menier ads.

This was a design used for a Pixar Aids Walk fundraiser. I took the original design and placed it in key areas around the studio. I then took photos of the design and added the text to each image and put each poster up corresponding to their location in the photo. It turned out to be a pretty cool effect, here are a few examples of how it turned out.

The idea was simply inspired by a record. The design of the Luxo Lamp is in the "grooves". The front of the shirt says "side 1" and lists half of the bands, the back listing the other half of the bands that played at Pixarpalooza.