Documenting my son.
Summer in the backyard 2020. Inflatable pools and 10 second commutes.
"There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be." - Richard Adams “Watership Down”
Little mouse, big adventure.
“The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: ‘Pieces of eight! pieces of eight!’”
‘’If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
A sampling of my instagram illustration series “Social Distance Diary.” Illustrations depicting life at home during the pandemic.
An autobiographical comic about grief, trauma, and how we all heal differently.
Memories of summer in Los Angeles.
A vision of home.
A series of illustrations of my most Jewish memories.
The pomegranates in our garden are like ripe little planets orbiting the new year. A Rosh Hashanah painting.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
A children’s book about the community that grows along with the community garden it surrounds.
Tales from a garden.
Meditations on a garden.
A portrait of Frida Khalo.
I art directed the Dreamworks Television Animation short “The Nock and the Treeple” for the Hope Works initiative. I was in charge of overall art direction for this project, but I also did all the background paint, background design, and prop design. Character design and color by Amanda Turnage.
All images © Dreamworks TV Animation
Various colorscripts created during my time art directing the Dreamworks Television Animation series “Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh.”
All images © Dreamworks TV Animation
Various images from my time working as a background painter for the Disney Television Animation series “Gravity Falls.” For all images I created the paint only, except the last image for which I did paint and design.
All images © Disney TV Animation
A sampling of work from my time as a visual development artist on the Sony Pictures Animation movie “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.” Production Design by Justin Thompson, Art Direction by Dave Bleich.
Image 1: Color script and lighting paint
Image 2: Color script and lighting paint
Image 3: Color script and lighting paint. Layout by Aaron Spurgeon
Image 4: Color script and lighting paint. Layout by Pete Oswald
Image 5: Prop/Character Texture and Paint. Design by Aaron Spurgeon
Image 6: Prop/Character Texture and Paint. Design by Pete Oswald
Image 7: Prop/Character Texture and Paint. Design by Craig Kellman and Andre Medina
All images © Sony Pictures Animation
Various visual development work for the animated move “Angry Birds.” Art directed by Pete Oswald.
Image 1: Paint by Sam Kallis, layout by John Nevarez
Image 2: Paint by Sam Kallis and Jeanie Chang, layout by John Nevarez and Pete Oswald
Image 3: Paint by Sam Kallis, layout by John Nevarez
Image 4: Paint by Sam Kallis, layout by John Nevarez
Image 5: Color scripts by Sam Kallis
Image 6: Paint by Sam Kallis, design by Sam Kallis and Pete Oswald
Image 7: Paint by Sam Kallis, prop design by Sue Blanchard
All images © Rovio Animation
Background paint for the Disney Television Animation series “Star vs. The Forces of Evil.”
All images © Disney TV Animation
