Association Of Illustrators
Inside Illustration Creative Practice Course 3: "Illustration for Children's Animation"
The Brief- (Quoted from Henry St Leger's faux brief)
“A pair of characters with the theme ‘Opposites’.
This will be for the 6+ audience, The “programme” will be animated in 2D and we really want a hand drawn old fashioned feel.
The environment will be a plain background. All the action will come from the interaction between the two characters.
Therefore they must be bold, expressive, dynamic and playful. Although they are often ‘opposites’ they are, at the shows core, the best of friends.”
I decided to base the two characters off the sun and moon
Lu and Sol character pinups
Lu's character sheet
Lu's palette tests
Early concepts
early concepts
Sol's palette tests
The Project- Dragon is a cheeky, chaotic and optimistic shapeshifter character that I've had for a long time, they've almost become like a personal "mascot". Their old design no longer fitted their personality or the purpose of the character so I created a project to change up their design professionally, ensuring that I had a design that allowed Consistency over different forms, could be easier to animate and Incorporated old inspirations of the original concept.
Dragon Final Design (Front View)
Dragon Final Design (Side View)
Dragon's Final alt form
Colour Palette Tests inspired by forests, Autumnal leaves & even a kingfisher
Dragon Early Concepts
Dragon Early Concepts
Dragon Early Concepts
Colour Palette Tests with inspiration from natural settings, woodland & seasons
The Project- Ebony and Daniel are the focal characters of "Meteor Shower" (My storyboards for this Project can be found here)
Ebony is reserved and quiet. Her self consciousness and emotional state controls how she acts.
Daniel is a battered carousel horse with a broken ear, he looks a little sad and rundown but in reality is loyal, energetic and wants to be outgoing
Ebony Final Concept & Expressions
Ebony Concept Sketches
Ebony Concept Sketches
Daniel Final Concept & Expressions
Daniel Concept Sketches
Daniel Colour Palette Concepts
Daniel Concept Sketches
The Project- Cathie Lou was a design created as part of my entry for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival competition. The project was to design a Demon based character that used their powers for good. I turned to Bioluminescent Squid and Plastic waste for inspiration for the character.
Cathie Lou final design and writeup
The Project- Anne T. is a curious but methodical Ant, designed for a stop Motion project based on the an adventure interpretation of the fable of "The Ant and The Grasshopper".
Anne's stop motion puppet was fabricated by myself, she features a foam body, "Milliput" and "Super Sculpey" clay head with a modelling clay (Plasticine) bottom jaw and eyelids, paper pupils and hand sewn clothing.
Anne T. Stop Mo Character Design Turnaround
The Client: Majestical
The Project- "Nurture", "Respect" and "Share" are part of a collection of characters I created for Majestical. Each character needed to represent a different value for their brand.
The project as a whole was to place these characters into different scenarios and create mini comic panels to present messages and stories that the company wanted to share on their social media.
Some of my comic panels for this project can be found on this page!
"Nurture" Expression Sheet
"Respect" Expression Sheet
"Share" Expression Sheet
"Simple Things" Post
Christmas Jumper day Post
The Project- "Hubris" Creature Design. Hubris is a huge, humanoid monster built out of black tar-like goop and items of peoples garbage, with the main character's plastic bottle at his beating heart. Below are my finalised designs for our graduation film.
Hubris' Final Design Turnaround
Hubris' Gesture Sheet
Hubris' Expression Sheet
Hubris' Gesture Sheet
Hubris Early Skull Shape Exploration