This project is my personal favorite! Back in 2005 I decided to propose to my now wife. But how to do it? Cool Runnings is Monique’s favorite movie, and I’m in the graphics business. Put the two together, and I came up with the idea of replacing background (or foreground) graphics throughout Cool Runnings with proposals. However, it kind of back fired in that she didn’t see a single one! At the beginning of the movie I was nervous waiting for her to see one of them and say something. By the end of the movie I was nervous that she had seen them but was ignoring them! But no. She didn’t see a single one of my TWENTY clever proposals. Now to be honest, at the beginning of the movie I did make some of them hard to spot. I wanted to be able to say I had to wear her down and ask her several times. But halfway through the movie one of them was the focus of the whole shot (the jumbotron!) Finally, on proposal number twenty, I paused the film and she finally noticed it, at which point I got down on one knee and proposed. Talk about wearing her down! Here are nine of my favorites. Can you spot the proposals?

Client: Personal Project

Role: Concept, Design, Retouching, Compositing, Finished Art