The Approved Concept Sketch for the Bird in Sesame Street's THE MAGICAL WAND CHASE

I made a Muppet!

As a child, the creative play of SESAME STREET made me want to become a professional artist. With THE MAGICAL WAND CHASE, I was able to contribute to the Street with the movie's title designs and a fully CG Muppet, the antagonist for the new TV special.

A 21st Century Puppet

The movie was a fantastic adventure for the Sesame characters to leave the Street and visit other diverse neighborhoods and we needed to create a CG character that was modeled and textured by Joe Jones to look just like a felt, fleece, and feathered Muppet but was free to fly!

Creative partner Rickey Boyd is himself a Muppeteer and was able to record his hand performance with a special glove that fed the tracking data to our Animators.

Alternate Concepts

voiced by actress Elizabeth Banks, who was also game to play The Bird disguised as a human

The End?

In addition to the bird design, I was asked to design the opening titles and closing credit art. Based on a construction paper aesthetic inspired by paper crafts in the first scene, I was able to use the credits to continue to tell the story and imagine a scenario where our bird became a resident of the Street and made a home on the iconic SESAME STREET sign.

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