able, reasonable, experienced, available

Need a storyboard, concept or scenic artist? A set painter, gang boss, head painter or sculptor? Art Director? Need original art, hero art, murals, backdrops, fine art reproductions, copies, work “in the spirit of”, or out and out fakes? My work in film and television spans 20 years and all of the above and more. I am now relocated to New Mexico. I am able, reasonable, experienced and available on short notice. I look forward to working with you.

Rick Mobbs

(Alex Chamyan and Rick Mobbs on the backlot of Screen Gems Studios, Wilmington NC)

Websites and Contact Info:

rickmobbs.com ~ for samples of storyboards done for film and TV as well as galleries of original art – paintings, drawings, illustrations, sculpture, assemblage.

the storybook collaborative ~ where every week for ten months (until the new baby came and the movie work kicked in) I posted original narrative images as prompts for writers.  I published the collaborations here. Here is a link to some favorites.

rickmobbs.imagekind.com for posters, prints, cards etc.

I’ll be delighted if you leave a comment, email me, or call.

Rick Mobbs
United World College of the American West
Highway 65, p.o.box 248
Montezuma, NM 87731

910-233-2497 cell
rickmobbs@gmail.com
rickmobbs.wordpress.com
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STORYBOARD SAMPLES:

These are from boards I did for Nickelodeon, for a new products launch commercial.

Boards from the movie, “The Notebook”:

Below are boards from the movie “A Walk to Remember”:

Boards below are from MOV “Holy Joe”.

Three frames from a Gatorade commercial…

Resume: Work for Film and TV

I have been freelancing in the film industry since 1989. I have experience and credits as a Scenic Artist, Lead Scenic , Storyboard Artist, Concept Artist, and Sculptor. I am reasonable, experienced, able and available.

(storyboard work highlighted in blue; head painter gigs in red)

Rick Mobbs

United World College, Montezuma NM 87731

rickmobbs@gmail.com cell 910.233.2497

Feature Film and Television 1991 – 2009

• Bless Me Ultima – painter
• Cowboys and Aliens – scenic artist
• Paul – paint dept. gang boss
• Book of Eli – scenic artist
• Georgia O’Keefe – scenic artist
• Run for her Life – scenic artist
• Army Wives, (episode 1, A Tribe Is Born )– hero art
• The List – hero art
• The Notebook – storyboard artist, scenic artist
• Idlewild – scenic artist
  
• Loggerheads – art director
• A Walk to Remember – storyboard artist
• Black Knight – scenic artist
• The In Crowd – scenic artist
• Freedom Song – concept artist/storyboards
• Holy Joe – storyboard artist
• Muppets from Space – scenic artist, sculptor
• Elmo in Grouchland – scenic artist, storyboards
• Body Count – scenic charge/head painter
• Country Justice – scenic charge/head painter
• Best Friends for Life – scenic charge/head painter
• Justice in a Small Town – scenic charge/head painter
• Blue River – hero art, landscape painting coach
• Deceiver – scenic charge/head painter
• The Grave – scenic charge/head painter
• My Teacher’s Wife (Learning Curve) – storyboard artist, murals
• Empire Records – concept artist, storyboard artist
• Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored – illustrator, scenic artist
• Sophie and the Moon-hanger - storyboard artist
• Fall Time – illustrations, scenic artist
• The Crow – scenic artist (model shop)
• Radioland Murders – art dept. special projects: Radioland stage backdrop, scenery
• Super Mario Brothers – scenic artist, storyboards (second unit)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 – costume illustrations (for casting)
• Rambling Rose – backdrops 
• Alan and Naomi – quick sketch street artist
• Secrets from The Rose Garden – scenic artist
• Amos and Andrew – set painter, hero art

Rick Mobbs resume p.2

Episodic TV

• One Tree Hill – scenic artist, backdrops
• Dawson’s Creek – illustration, storyboards & backdrops
• American Gothic – concept art, main set mural design & execution, storyboards
• Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – storyboards & murals
• The Road Home – scenic artist, storyboards & backdrops

Other film work( as painter/scenic artist)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood • Hudsucker Proxy • Road to Wellville • Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics  • This World, then the Fireworks • Vault of Love • Face on a Milk Carton • Margaret Mitchell Story • One of Her Own • Leave of Absence • In a Child’s Name • Bastard Out of Carolina • Twilight Man • Kiss the Girls • Aunt Julia • Betsy’s Wedding  • A Kiss Before Dying

Commercials

• Nickelodeon – storyboards
• Gatorade • storyboards
• Nickelodeon – art director (Sponge Bob commercial)
• Carolina Power & Light – scenic artist
• Direct TV – scenic artist

Painting Churches

• Paint & Restoration, Trinity Church, Copley Sq., Boston, Mass

•  Chapel Design for Maryknoll Sisters, Leon, Nicaragua

•  Caretaker, Friends Meeting House, Wilmington, NC

•  Sanctuary Mural for Presbyterian Church, Manaus, Brazil,

Education

•   Diploma, Vesper George School, Commercial Art and Illustration, Boston, MA

•   Museum School, Boston: figure drawing, film animation

•   Bob Cormier, (Director of the Guild School of the Guild of Boston Artists) Fenway Studios, Boston, private study

•   B.S. Art Therapy, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

•   Work on 3rd year of MFA in Studio Arts from East Carolina University, Greenville NC currently in abeyance

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