Story Art
“The Devil’s Run”
The Devil’s Run is an action / sci-fi retro-futurist animated film which Adrian is writing and Storyboarding. It’s a pulpy, 1930s style adventure yarn set that takes place on a hostile planet. Below are some of Adrian’s Storyboards for the film.
One Panel Comic Strip - “Invasion”
The idea with this project was to tell a story in one image. Here I take the alien invasion cliché and flip it. Human astronauts are the scary invaders to the inhabitants of some unsuspecting alien planet.
Three Panel Comic Strip - “The Visitor”
Keeping with the idea of alien invasion tropes. Here is another alien invasion that doesn’t go quite as expected. This one is told in three panels. (Use the arrows to scroll).
“Brute”
Below are keyframes from ‘Brute’, Adrian’s proposed animated silent short film. It’s an ode to German Expressionism and Golden Age Superhero cartoons—Fritz Lang meets Max Fleischer. It tells the story of a mechanical man inhabited by the soul of a dead Viking Warlord.
In this scene, Brute, the titular hero of the story, comes to life in the year 1936—a Fourth Century warlord who now finds himself resurrected in an android body. He will soon learn he has been brought back for one reason alone—to serve the whims of a deranged mad scientist.
The Mad Scientist lives in a hollowed-out mountain base, just outside the Big City. He has created the super-strong Brute to destroy the city in order to get revenge on mankind for shaming the Mad Scientist and his dastardly inventions—but Brute will rebel against him!
Karen Klein is an intrepid reporter who always gets her story. She discovers Brute when he is forced by the mad scientist to attack her city. Eventually she and Brute will team up to stop the Scientist’s diabolical plan!
But wait!—The Mad Scientist has other robot henchmen—earlier prototypes who Brute and Karen must battle in order to free Brute and save the city from being destroyed!
The drawings on this page were created in Black and White using a combination of digital and traditional techniques—including Mechanical pencils, Pentel and Pitt Brushpens, as well as the digital applications Photoshop and Procreate. All of these drawings and the characters they depict are Adrian’s creations, and his intellectual property. Reproduction without the artists’s permission is prohibited. Reproduction with the artists’s permission is encouraged. Copyright 2021.