WELCOME TO ANDREWCREMEANS.COM!

Howdy! My name is Andrew Cremeans and I am a veteran Graphic Designer and Creative Director with over 20 years experience in the video game industry.
I have shipped over 30 titles and have worked with an amazing group of clients including Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Nickelodeon, Universal and many more.
More recently I have been jumping between Concept Designer, Storyboard Artist and Graphic Artist for companies like Walt Disney Imagineering, Disney Consumer Products and DMAI.
 

METALLICA MONTH(S) OF GIVING

The only thing cooler in the world than doing artwork for Metallica was being asked back to do it again. On top of THAT, nothing is cooler than doing it for a good cause.

Metallica has announced the sale of a shirt today featuring a design from yours truly, which proceeds will go directly to the Word Central Kitchen. World Central Kitchen’s (WCK) Relief Team has already served over 5 million meals, supporting families sheltering in Ukraine and refugees arriving in Poland, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and most recently, Spain. WCK believes, as do we, that food is a universal human right, and this swift response in the face of need has inspired AWMH.

This shirt is not the only way to donate! Starting today, every dollar you donate will be doubled thanks to a match of up to $500k by the All Within My Hands Foundation and their Boards of Directors and Advisors. Visit their donation page and choose the World Central Kitchen Ukraine Relief Fund from the drop-down menu. Remember: all funds raised will go directly to WCK. AWMH does not use a penny of your donations to cover expenses.

Doing artwork for Metallica is the absolute biggest honor for this lifelong metalhead, but to do it for a good cause makes my heart explode. I stand with Ukraine.
Check them out here! https://www.metallica.com/store/awmh-month-of-giving-2022-t-shirt/AWMHACTMOG22.html?cgid=All%20Within%20My%20Hands#start=1


METALLICA AND ONE HAPPY FAN


Well… I can finally tell everyone. Your boy Andy has fulfilled a lifelong dream by officially doing a major piece of art for Metallica.  It was announced on all their social media this morning. 

 

The artwork was made to celebrate their 40 year career and I did my best to incorporate the essence of all their original studio albums into one picture. 100% of the proceeds of the initial sales made by this poster will go to their “All Within My Hands” charity supporting workforce education and feeding people with food insecurities throughout the country. It goes on sale on Metallica’s website on December 15, 2021 at 1pm PST! It’s a very limited edition print on foil paper.

There will be a limited supply of signed artist comps in my store here starting Wednesday, December 15, 2021 as well as soon as my poster arrive!
They will be avaiable here…  https://andrewcremeansart.bigcartel.com/

I’m so unbelievably happy to be part of this 



They even did an interview with me for their magazine that you can read below (with awesome pics by Sean Jacobs)

 

THAT BOY’S A PAINTIN’ FOOL.

(Mid-2021)

It’s been a while, folks! Sorry for the radio silence but its been SUPER busy couple of months! My time has been filled with straddling the line between the sacred and the profane; illustrating merch for my favorite horror movie convention on the planet (Spooky Empire) while also designing characters and environments for children’s educational software!  I even illustrated an honest to goodness children’s book last year that was a #2 Best Seller on Amazon last Black Friday! Check it out here! https://tinyurl.com/xatcszy8

 

I’ve been trying to keep my website current, but as always, if you want to be SUPER current, always remember to follow me on Instagram! It’s just easier to throw things up there!

 

STAR WARS! STAR WARS PROJECTS EVERYWHERE!

(November 22nd, 2017)

With my work with Disney and Side Dish Productions I have a whole bunch of Star Wars projects hitting stores soon!
The first one is Star Wars – Jedi Challenges, which is an AR experience that was brought to life by Lenovo and Disney.
I was involved very early on in this project with Imagineering and then later on with concept and storyboards for Disney Consumer Products.
Check out this video for more info!

The second on is a for a Star Wars First Order Stormtrooper robot with companion app made by Ubtech! I have been the Art Director on the companion app that accompanies the robot!
As more press gets released I will post more info!

WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON? FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM!

 (April 1st, 2017)

Man, it is is difficult to find the time to keep this site updated, just for the sheer amount of work happening (which is always a good thing.)
The easiest way to see updates and new artwork is to follow me on Instagram! Dig the link below:


I will do my best to start keeping this website updated, but for the time being, Instagram is where you find a lot of fun stuff as I get it done, including the stuff from Playmation over the last year!
See you there!

SPOOKY EMPIRE HORROR CONVENTION POSTERS AND SHIRTS!

(October, 2016)

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Well it’s official! I can now show everyone the poster/t-shirt design I did for Spooky Empire this year! WOO HOO!
Some of you might recognize the homage, but the story goes like this: Petey Mongelli (the founder and runner of Spooky Empire) started the convention years ago as a rock n’ roll convention. Over time it slowly morphed into a horror convention, but Petey kept all the merchandise and posters and stuff as a mix of famous classic rock imagery and horror movie imagery. When they first announced that they were having the actors who played Freddy Kreuger, Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I immediately remembered a poster I had on my wall when I was a kid.
I wrote Pete and said “Hey man, do you remember the poster that came with the Kiss Unmasked album? Why don’t you do ‘Spooky Empire Unmasked’ with the “big 4″ on it?” Petey is a HUGE Kiss fan, he loved the idea, so I sent him a sketch and he said “DO IT!” (Google ‘Kiss Unmasked poster’ if you’re curious.) So I embarked on the Journey of trying to translate that “Late 1970s Air Brushed Puffy Rainbow” style that appeared on the Kiss album poster (and 70’s teeny bopper magazines like Dynamite and Hot Dog) with the dark, dirty and gritty look of 4 horror movie icons. It was fun. 🙂

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! WOOT WOOT!

(June 4th, 2015)

Well, it looks like it was officially announced! This is the Disney project that I have been working on for almost 3 years! It started off as being part of the “Blue Sky” ideas process with Walt Disney Imagineering, which then lead to storyboards and preliminary designs. I then moved into working on the interface design for the companion app with Disney Consumer Products. Getting to see a project start on the ground floor and being with it all the way to completion is a rare feat and it’s one of the proudest moments of my career so far! I couldn’t be happier to have been part of it. Playmation hit shelves in October!

Here is the announcement video!

A number of websites have already done write ups on it, here are a few highlights!

The Nerdist: http://nerdist.com/disney-unveils-playmation-the-future-of-play/?gallery=261163#gallery 
The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/2/8714823/avengers-toys-marvel-iron-man 

It even had a spot on Good Morning America this morning!  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/disneys-playmation-toys-bring-avengers-life-31522123

 

(January 27th, 2014)

Sorry for the really long radio silence, folks. I have been blessed with a tremendous amount of projects lately, and that is great news.
For the last few months I have been working on some projects for WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING that have really been the highlight of my career so far. I can’t say what the projects are just yet, but I have been having a tremendous time.
Also, the art for the children’s book that I have been illustrating has finally wrapped up and we are currently shopping publishers. I’m extremely proud of the work in the book and what we’ve been able to put together.
I’ll keep you posted on the publishing! In the mean time, here are some teaser sneak peeks!
 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

(October 31st, 2012)

I tried to make a push to get some “Classic Horror” prints drawn up and printed in time for Halloween this year, but freelance work has kept me extremely busy. (This is a good problem to have, mind you.) The only one that came close to being finished was the Bride of Frankenstein print below. I have made a commitment to doing a series of these, of all the Classic Monsters within the year. But in the meantime, enjoy the pic, and eat lots of candy!

 

 

JIM MORRISON TATTOO

(October 22nd, 2012)

Back in about 2007 or 2008, I designed a Jim Morrison “Lizard King” inspired tattoo for my buddy Casey. Starting pretty much the day after I posted it on my website I have received more emails about that image than any other piece of work on the site. To this day I get about 3 hits a day looking for it. A lot of people want to use it for their own ink, or have me modify it, etc. I made the image for Casey and I have never felt right about just giving people carte blanche to use it because it was a gift to him. I have taken it off the site, but it pops up every once in a while on the web. I kind of forgot about the life of the image until today.

I was clearing out my mailbox to make some room and I ran across this email from the Jim Morrison Estate a few years ago…

Andrew,

I represent the estate of Jim Morrison and I came across your artwork last week when searching for images to use for Jim’s birthday tomorrow.  I really like your incorporation of his image and the lizard with crown, and wonder if you would be open to allowing us to use it…

Yeah, so… I relaxed the tight grip I had on the image that day, with Casey’s blessing. That was neato.

THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT FRAME APPROVED!

(October 22nd, 2012)

Back in 2010, Johnny Cash’s estate set up ‘The Johnny Cash Project.’ It was designed to take Cash’s last video (Ain’t No Grave) and separate it out frame by frame and then those frames were taken by artists all over the country and painted over. They were then taken and regrouped into one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen. Below is the frame I did for the project, and the video itself. The major catch was you had to paint your frame directly in a paint app on the website, not in any other format. But that allowed for easy editing for the video folks, AND you can go back and watch yourself paint it again because it was recorded.

CLICK THIS LINK, AND PLAY DRAWING SESSION TO WATCH ME PAINT THE FRAME http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/#/explore/TopRated/4f648568725bf626d87cee98863f1971df767896

 

 

 

 

WHO LET THIS JERK INTO A COMMERCIAL?

(October 21st, 2012)

 

Right around E3 of 2008, THQ released a ‘behind the scenes’ video for a video game we all killed ourselves working on for about a year called “ALL STAR CHEER SQUAD.” Said video stars the game, Tony G., some cheerleaders, my buddy Nick Ingeneri, and your humble and slightly overweight narrator. Guys, don’t even play like you didn’t buy this game and play it until your Wii broke.
 
 
 

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