Illustration | Character Design | Visual Development
Visual Development
Crimson Blossom | Color and Design for Animation with Angie Duran | Spring 2024
Based around old PC-98 Visual Novels, this project follows a girl named Vivienne who finds herself stuck inside one of these visual novels but something goes wrong, and the game starts to corrupt. She and one character who hasn't corrupted, Joben, try to find their way out the visual novel and solve the mystery of what is causing this, as well as trying to get Vivienne to her world.
Gaurdians | Visual Development with Cliff Nielson | Fall 2023
In this group project in reinterpreting a classic Latvian story, I was responsible for the design of the Villain character and a couple extra elements. I based a lot of the designs on Russian folklore and history due to us relocating the story to Russia.
Miscellaneous
Yume 2kki + Yume Nikki | Background Ptg/Animated Films with Justin Brandstater | Fall 2023
Required to make a Day and Night version of the same location, I chose to reinterpret areas from the RPGmaker game Yume 2kki and Yume Nikki. Essentially only working with an overhead pixelated map of the area for inspiration, and building upon the missing spaces. As well as using both an exterior and interior location.
Phantom 309 | Graphic Design for Entertainmment with Paul Rogers | Spring 2024
This project is based off of a song following the narrative of someone encountering a ghostly truck and truck driver on the roadside, we were given the choice of location, so long as it was a roadside, American style. So, with the premise I chose the Wisconsin countryside due to my own experiences and travels and created a story moment / background painting with my own character designs, building designs, etc.
Z-Station Visual Deveopment Project is here:
Character Design
Jonny | Action Analysis with Franz Vischer | Fall 2023
We were assigned to create a character and do a basic turn-around of them, with the context that they would be used for a short storyboard project. I decided to use my Dungeons and Dragons character and simplify his design to fit a more animation-friendly turn-around.
BEASTS | Character Design with Adam Dix | Fall 2023
Our project was to use any story of our own to create a 5 person line up, 3 character turn arounds and 3 expression sheets. So I used one of my scrapped projects about humans fused with animals versus non-fused humans. I had sketches of these characters before, so the challenge was to modify and build upon them so their designs could read clearly in a space of animation.
Expression sheets
Turn Arounds
Poster / Editorial
Still Water fake Album Cover | Graphic Design for Entertainment Arts with Paul Rogers | Spring 2024
This project revolved around choosing an era and a fake band in a movie or other media to make an album cover of, I chose the band Still Water from the film Almost Famous. The era of said band would be 70s Rock, so I had to design accordingly, choosing to go with a more psychedelic route.
Power of Flight | Image and Idea with Steve Turk | Spring 2023
We were tasked to make a poster representing the power of flight while keeping in mind that it can't be something that could be photographed, has metaphor and two things that don't normally go together. I wanted to highlight how machinery doesn't normally go with nature, but it could and should coexist with nature.
Comics
OUTSIDE | Comics Studio with Steven Weissman | Fall 2024
Based on my real struggles with Agoraphobia, OUTSIDE is a short story about 2 girls living and surviving in a post-apocalyptic world, this was a one-shot, however In the future I would like to make a series of one shots featuring these two and situations they get into.
Protect Inside Cats | Comics Studio with Steven Weissman | Fall 2024
This assignment was meant to be a journalistic type, so I decided to make an infographic type brochure comic to let people know about the dangers of letting your cat outside, especially in California. A lot of research and interviewing was put into this project.
