Stolen - Midterm Pitch

Last week was midterms for my Preproduction Principles class. These are all the concept images I presented for my project.

'Lew Character Design

Keena Character Design

The Army Character Design

Environment

Proof of Concept Roughs

I really don't know. . .

The latest group project for my storyboarding class required that we choose a nursery rhyme and pick real actors to play the roles of of our characters. We chose Little Miss Muffet and picked Lisa Lampanelli and Chris Rock to be our actors. I volunteered to create the character designs, because my schedule is a little too busy right now to contribute to the storyboard.

Normally, I would try to fit defining features of Chris Rock onto a spider face, rather than attach Rock's whole head to a spider body, but this is what the group decided to do, for comedic effect. It's really somewhat terrifying.

Stolen - Character Development

Part of the semester-long project of my Preproduction Principles class was to design characters for a short animation. We spent several weeks on working and reworking our characters to fully polished designs. While I think I want to play with costumes some more, I'm really happy with the final designs I came up with. Here's the full process my characters went through.

Aliens Aliens

One of my teachers wanted to see examples of some of my alien designs. I didn't happen to have much in the sketchbooks I brought with me to SF, so I made a few new drawings of old creations. 

These guys were originally a creation in Spore when I was trying to learn how to design unique alien anatomy many years ago.

This was a design made not long after the first, using what I'd learned by playing with Spore. Their mouths are on their necks, and their heads exist only to house their brain, eyes, and ears.

This is Fluffy. I designed him several years back for a single storyline that I never got around to writing. He's hematophagous (blood-drinking), with a mouth in his tongue, six hands, and three prehensile tails.

I created this race last summer. They're only referred to as "The Enigma" or "those things" by other species. They have a passion for science and discovery, but have yet to communicate with other races.

Meet the Brain Spider

This is the Brain Spider.

His only goal in life is to hold a bubble. 

Sometimes he gets to touch one.

But it always pops.

I hope he reaches his goal someday.

Until then, touching the bubbles will have to do.

This blog will be a record of every time the Brain Spider manages to touch a bubble.

And maybe some day you'll get to see him hold one.