Dylan J. Hay-Chapman

@dylanwhodesigns

Graphic Artist for the movies and the teevees. Upcoming: Napa Boys, The Dink. Previous: Borat 2, Curb, Firefly ADG800
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The Napa Boys is now available to rent or purchase! That means NO MORE EXCUSES! Time to see the most consequential installment in a film franchise EVER. Today, I’m going to talk about COMIC BOOKS. We were tight on time, but we were cruising along at this point. The Wine Wagon is a central character in the series, so once @heyalmitra signed off on the vehicle, we had to get it created in the physical world (that’s for another post; @cindyandmichele built the thing and it’s TREMENDOUS!) naturally, but it also figures into Miles Jr.’s Napa Boys comic book series! With some script cues and some fanboy inspiration, we started pitching these and realizing them for the comic convention that opens the show, and to show Puck (@saraheramos ) deep fandom! I designed and illustrated “Milfonator!” and “Uncle!” While enlisting the help of @emilie.zeug to create two more covers: “Switcheroo!” and my personal favorite that I don’t think made the cut: “EUROTRIP!” Lots of geeky Easter eggs here! @jamar_neighbors (Stifler’s Brother) did some amazing paintings of these covers that he featured late last year when the film opened at @mmadnesstiff so I would be remiss if I did not feature them here. There is a little look at my process of creating an FJ Cruiser in Adobe Illustrator, too. Lots more Napa Boys coming up! Production Designer: @heyalmitra Art Directors: @cindyandmichele Set Decorator: Nicole Rodarte Riley Graphic Designers: @dylanwhodesigns & @emilie.zeug
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23 days ago
This is such great news. BUT. I needed a few days to absorb it. Firefly has broken my heart more than once. The first time was obviously when it was cancelled. The second time was when Serenity came along, and Fox made Joss a deal that meant that he had to exclude those of us on the original design team from the series. They didn’t think the group that established Buffy and brought Firefly to life could manage the task of making Firefly for a movie theater. Oh well. Our design work persists, I am extremely proud of what we managed to achieve for very little money, and we will get to see our work adapted to a new medium. CANT WAIT. BUT IN CASE YOU READ THIS, @nathanfillion @alantudyk @iamginatorres @jewelstaite @morenabaccarin @sean_m_maher I’m willing to jump in if you need me! You could bless my persistent but indefatigable loyalty! HERE IS THE SIGNAL (WINK WINK) I’ll get to see my flags and banners and logos and T-shirts all get a new life. It’s the 2003 we all wanted.
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1 month ago
Hey everyone! It’s Terry’s GOTCHA DAY! We also celebrate his birthday too. So that is five years in our lives, making him about 8 years old. He’s funny as hell, smart as a whip, and as kind as you could possibly imagine. Our little man Donkey is almost 17, and Terry watches out for him and waits for him. He’s the sweetest. @nicole.at.wildlighthomestead and I would just like to thank @dmurakamikanights for telling us about @pawpawbostonterriers and the work they do. We lost our beloved Boston terrier Pilot in June 2020, and it was his pictures that brought Donna and @brycekanights in our lives with our mutual obsession with the breed. Nicole and our amazing friend @marseakay went to Seattle to pick up little Terry just yesterday it seems, and we couldn’t imagine life without him. A huge thank you to all of Terry’s fosters in South Korea and the women at @pawpawbostonterriers and @pawpawbostonterrierkorea . Anyway, sorry for the ramble. Enjoy these pics!
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1 month ago
Well, the finale is here! Just about to start watching it myself. This is a poster I made in late 2020 for @curbyourenthusiasm for season 11. Larry is shopping a #YoungLarry series at Netflix, so we created our own Netflix offices complete with promo posters of some of the tentpole shows. I fully expected that they’d be promoting season 5 of @strangerthingstv by the time S11 of Curb was released, but Season 4 didn’t even make it out of the barn. Curb has ended, and now we are getting S5. If you look behind Larry, you can see some frames where posters for Ozark, Narcos, and this little gem were dressed into the set, way down the hallway, but were sadly cut. I used a stock photo of #unionspringsalabama for the base of Hawkins and painted it up to look like #theupsidedown and then added my version of the S5 logo, which wasn’t too hard to extrapolate. There is clearly some action going on, about to spill forth on the street! After revisiting this, I wished I had added more vines. THE MAIN THING HERE is that it needed to look legit, and I hit the brief. Swipe through for a gif-turned-video that drastically reduces the quality. 😆 Anyway, I hope Larry likes the finale! Production Designer @maturana_design Art director Hugh Cummings
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4 months ago
@zoinksnv is playing at @thecapitol_bend in Bend, Oregon on January 17th! It is in an EARLY SHOW: doors at 5, bands at 6, shut by 9! Thanks to Arne from Zoinks! for asking me to do this poster for the show!
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4 months ago
Don’t say I never gave you anything. Queen Peaks.
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5 months ago
Hey folks! Here’s some more #buffythevampireslayer stuff! When I was a set dresser on Buffy, I went at it on this white board featuring the invisibility ray. It was a thing where it was supposed to just be a concept-ish sketch of the rifle and some notes, but this little bit of flourish is what led to the art dept asking me if I wanted to take a stab at the CowChicken for the #doublemeatpalace, which is how I moved over to #Firefly when the pilot was greenlit. I had so much fun on Buffy, it’s pointless to elaborate more than that. I was only 24 when I started on season 3, working on a show that all my friends really enjoyed. For some bonus post-Halloween content, here are the costumes our mom made for my twin brother @thestellarjhc and me. This was Halloween ‘78 or maybe ‘79? I know it’s not 1980 because our mom made us (AMAZING) Han and Chewie costumes after The Empire Strikes Back was released. Mom, if you see this and have pics of Han and Chewie, PLEASE SEND EM!!! EDIT: gotta shout out @randinski for designing and fabricating the actual prop!!!
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6 months ago
A toast! 🍷💥🍷 @thenapaboys premiered at @tiff_net at @mmadnesstiff last night. It’s a fictional fourth installment in the Sideways cinematic universe. It was one of the most bonkers scripts I’ve ever read, and it had me second guessing objective reality all the way until we were well into production. @armenweitzman and Nick Corirossi have delivered something extraordinary by all accounts, and I am so extremely grateful for getting the chance to work on this film and make comic books and things like this picture car you see as a standee on the red carpet. Folks, this is our Batmobile. Production Designer extraordinaire @heyalmitra brought @cindyandmichele and me on board for what can only be described as a quest; and the amazingly talented @emilie.zeug joined in to make some amazing artwork that we all are dying to share. Anyway, I wish I had been able to attend this screening, I myself am desperate to see it. The buzz is starting online right now. I hope this film gets wide theatrical distribution, and I hope all of us don’t have to wait too long to see it! Also a high five to producer @mikerosenstein for making sure real humans make real art. High ten to @jamar_neighbors for his artistic depictions of some of the work @emilie.zeug and I did. And to Otis Cary for the LEGO models of the #WineWagon and #thenapaboys cast. #IH8MRLT #ihatemerlot @heyalmitra - production designer @cindyandmichele - art directors
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8 months ago
NBD just sitting next to a Browncoat on my flight. #aleafonthewind #damagingthepoorguyscalm
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8 months ago
Sneak peek. Work in progress. #dylanwhodesigns #starwars #atat #beggarscanyon
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8 months ago
Ella McCay has a release date! December 12, 2025. We worked really hard on this one, and the trailer looks fantastic. I was a PA on Kingpin back in the day, so I’m always excited to see Woody Harrelson again, looking pretty much the same. Emma, @ayoedebiri @jamieleecurtis , Albert Brooks, and the legendary Julie Kavner, and @kumailn make for an incredible cast, written and directed by James L. Brooks. @richtoyon - production designer @brandosetdec - set decorator Bryan Felty - art director
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8 months ago
We did something over the holidays…
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9 months ago