Character Design research

Early character design work for the graduate film that I am currently working on.

Crow watercolour experiment 

Watercolour and ink silhouettes 

Life drawing pigeons with a brush pen

Life drawing pigeons with a brush pen

Flight sequence studies of pigeons

Corvus studies 

Corvus studies with brush pen

Crow silhouette designs 

Poster

Poster for my pitch idea animation. Although I didn't get to make my film this year, I still hope to redevelop it in the future. Additionally, working as producer and lead animator on another film is giving me lots of experience and practise.

nebula practise

Practising painting nebulas in photoshop with custom brushes I made. 

Celestial Eagle designs

Some of the final design work I did for the celestial eagles in my film idea.

Turnaround for the white eagle 

Character features

Turnaround for the black eagle

Black eagle features

Concepts

Small selection of design work and concepts I have been doing for my film idea.

Rough layout sketch

Rough layout canvas set up

Rough character designs

Design work pipeline

Concept

Silhouettes 

Character sketches

Zoo drawings and character design

Tiger drawings referencing artist

Giraffe expressions

I observed this well dressed lady in the wood the other day however, a muddy dog jumped on her white clothes which was begging to be illustrated!

Quick doodle of myself getting excited about going on a plane.

Bournemouth University Student

Me when I can actually afford to sleep in.

Using Jersey interent when I am home is soooo slow!

Quick character design

Life Drawing

Some life drawing from this last term 2014. 

Concept art

Some more concepts I have made for my short animation idea.

Black and White

Celestial Battle

concept art and story beat panels

My current module is focusing on coming up with an idea for a short animation. This is absolutely fantastic and I am thoroughly enjoying all the research and drawing. 

Story beat panels.

Character concept

Rough character head design

Eagle heads study referencing Glen Keane's work of Mahute.

Head design ideas page

Silhouettes and design ideas

Early digital painting concept