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Wanted to put out a notice that I am not using this blog anymore! I have instead moved my portfolio to a more formal website. I haven't updated this portfolio in a long time, and won't be in the future, so to see more recent works and any future ones please subscribe to one of my feeds below. I am also (at the time of this post) seeking art related work! If you have connections please check out what I have been doing lately and send me a message if you are interested in hiring. Links: 🌿 My Website (and contact info) 🌵 Tumblr 🌱 Twitter

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I’m a big fan of Nausicaa of the Valley of the wind but and I’m sad about the lack of merch for it. So here’s my take (still a work in progress) of the title character. I’m hoping to 3D print at some point. Critique and advice welcome.

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A little oil-barrel dog I made for fun. Design largely inspired by  Tarō Okamoto.

Practiced rigging from scratch, though I ran into an issue I couldn’t find more about. I want to limit the joint rotation on the knees, but it is attached to an IK system. Maybe me more technically savvy followers can maybe help me out?

I have the model/rig for download here. It is kind of janky (I have two IK systems on the legs for different rotations) but feel free to do anything within reason

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Some more work in progress.

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Backgrounds, color keys and rough concepts for this year’s film

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Some visual development for a short VR project I am working on.

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I am taking a screen printing workshop and tried making this for my first two-color print. I spent most of this time making mistakes (hence how unaligned it is) but also figuring out what to do right.  Some more process under the cut.

This is what I first began with. I don’t use the lasso tool often in my own work but thought I would try it out for something simple like this. 

I sorted out the image into three readable colors (transparency, black, and color) and added a bit of texture in order to feel less digital. This is what I would like the final image to look like, but in truth transferring to screenprint and analog is tricky and rough. Especially since I was working with a less detailed mesh and small image.

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Some deer from the dark

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A bunch of screenshots/backgrounds from my film this year. Some have little thumbnails showing the basic layouts and thumbnails from my color script that I used to construct the basic color scheme. I’m basing most color choices based on mood, and trying to produce a forest which has little green in it.

I’m using Iben Krutt’s brush set for pretty much everything but the characters, it is pretty handy.

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more explorations from this year’s film, character/prop design as well as a color script. 

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some recent sketches and paintings

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Personal project where I am trying to reinterpret Cluedo. Using some art nouveau and its time period as influence.

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A postcard I will be giving out at portfolio day, featuring my film characters having fun.

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Warming up with some character studies. I’ve been aware that many of my drawings lately lack gesture and line, so I’m trying to address that.

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Background style test for film this year.

edit: This post now has the revision, where I adjusted the colors to contrast against the character. Here's the original

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A quick peek at a character I've been working on lately. I wanted to try to figure out what kind of world he'd live in, and how much I could push the color tones of the environment.

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Some little vegetable based persons and tiny furniture from their world. I am considering using these characters in a film next year.