Tony's Ten #9: Pen and Ink/Watercolor Illustrations for History Channel's "SIX."

These pen and ink/watercolor illustrations were designed for the History Channel show "Six" last year, as a tribute to WW1 Veterans. The rigors of extended combat are stressful and taxing regardless of when or where they occur.

It's great to break out traditional art supplies for an assignment, as a break from digital media. Although I love digital painting and drawing, switching to traditional tools is a great motivator for me to keep developing my skills.

The Bob Dylan's song "Not Dark Yet" is used for the music track. 

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Tony's Ten #8 - Alien Surveilance

In this latest in my series of "Tony's Ten" Story Reels, I've shared a sequence from a movie pitch I designed for a well-established commercial director. The frames were designed loose on purpose, crafted quickly with Storyboard Pro to describe the mood of the story.

The Moody Blues "Veteran Cosmic Rocker" provides the audio, which I think speaks to the grandeur of the overall character arc (I'm sure you'd agree if I could read you the script).

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Tony's Ten Reel # 7: Car Action Chase

This week's storyboard reel is the seventh in a series I call "Tony's Ten."

It's a bit longer than 10 Seconds, however.

I had so much fun compositing the frames from a movie pitch I did with Tony Kaye, (especially with the inclusion of the irresistible theme song by Barry Gray from the television series "UFO") that I decided to bend the rules. I hope you will be glad I did.

All boards were designed in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and composited with Final Cut Pro. My Logo and iterations of it were animated in After Effects. The Tony Santo Logo was designed by Tom Lynch (he hates the change I made to the "O"), and constructed in Adobe Illustrator.

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Tony's Ten #6 - Favorite Cable Shows and Ads

In this, the Sixth in a series of Storyboard Reels I call "Tony's Ten," I share my tribute to some of my favorite Cable shows.



The Batman themed frame was designed for a trade show performance. Outlander and Houdini were advertising comps and storyboards. The Planet of the Apes design I made for a self-promotional tee shirt release simultaneously with the newer POTA films.

I used The Clash's "Death or Glory" tune for the audio. It's anthem-like quality compliments how I feel about my favorite shows.

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Tony's Ten #5: The Red Tent

This is the fifth in a series of storyboard reels I call "Tony's Ten."

I've composited a selection of frames used as pitch art for the film version of Anita Diamant's famous novel. It was a colorful assignment that I think translated effectively to the full production.

Music is from The Monkees: "Porpoise Song" which appears on the HEAD soundtrack.

Tony's Ten #4: Deadliest Catch

This is the fourth in a series of storyboard reels that I call "Tony's Ten."

Designed as a promo spot for "Deadliest Catch" on Discovery Channel, these black and white boards were designed to merge a small amount of new footage with clips from the upcoming episodes.

I couldn't resist using Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as background music. I trimmed to an instrumental portion instead of lyrics, for I felt using only 10 seconds of such vivid lyrics wouldn't work here.

Tony's Ten - Ten Reels, Ten Weeks, Ten Seconds.

Tony's Ten # 3: Freedom

This is the third in my series of Tony's Ten reels. Music is by Sly and the Family Stone: Stand.