Nate Wragg's Character Design for Production

This was my last week for Nate Wragg's Character Design for Production class. It was a good class. It really got me back into the habit of designing. :)

Cartoon Zen

We had a snow day today and so all classes were cancelled. I ended up just working on my life drawing assignment all day instead. I came in with a different mind set this time in approaching my work. I wanted to thoroughly enjoy the experience and mentally just stay in that "cartoon zen" mind state. There wasn't a lot of second guessing myself. I just went with what felt right and if it didn't, I stopped it. Doing that made this such a pleasure to do. And I’m looking forward to getting back into my cartoon zen soon.

Square, circle and stick!

I also worked on some character designs for our film. Again, working on a big emphasis in simple silhouettes that would read clearly. 

*Grandma and evil villain co-designed by Kathleen Martin & Rosanna Lam.  

Astronaut Jack!

Hello everybody! 

Reading came and went and I hoped that I would have more personals to post but I ended up storyboarding all week. That’s ok though because I enjoyed myself. 

However, here is something new! I had a lot of fun with this character design assignment. We had to create a character line up based on a theme. We had to decide from either Western, Sci-fi, Horror or Pirates. I was going to choose Western since it’s a genre I’m not very familiar with but then my friends convinced me to do Sci-fi since they knew I would love it. They were right. 

This assignment got me so much into the Sci-fi groove that I even started re-watching Star Wars starting from Episode 1! Watching them all now is so much more satisfying! Getting all the references and geeking out over the shots is so much fun! It’s also making me want to finally read Joseph Cambell’s book, “Hero with a Thousand Faces” which the narrative Star Wars is based on. 

Real talk, today I spent didn’t get out of bed until 6pm because I was watching Star Wars since waking up. I am disgusting. 

Contrasting Characters

Ok yeah, everyone did a fat person vs a skinny person for our contrasting assignments but whatever. I had a good time with this one. 

Adam and Eve

I thought I would have more time to do some personal projects this summer but this has not been the case! Between work, internship and friends, I have barely had any time to myself. I just decided I really need to just devote some time to get stuff done so here I am at 2:30am finishing personal projects. I'm tired but I'm feeling good! Eve is finally done and I think she's looking pretty cute!

Sasquatch!

Roughs