Laura Clark - Animation Portfolio

A collection of my Storyboards, character designs, animated gifs, concept and dynamic art.

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A few more of the Transformers: Legacy character concepts I've been working on in my spare time. These are basically all just first drafts, very few have any working drawings or turnarounds for them yet. Prowl, Sunstreaker, Optimus and Bumblebee are the main characters I've done extra work for.

Included are traditionally sketched character concepts. While being able to do nice clean looking coloured ones on an ipad is nice, ipad size limitations make the stances awkward. It's easier to do the nice natural stances in an artbook, but then of course, there is no undo button or layers, which makes posing a little more challenging.

And if I seem to have duplicated posting Prowl, that is because I redid his design a bit.

I'm going to try and do more working drawings of these characters in some context, action sketches and so on, but that is on the back burner due to real life unfortunately.

Should do a shout out to Alex Milne for the Chromedome and Rewind designs, since they draw heavilly from the ones he made for IDW MTMTE. The man is epic and all his robots are gorgeous. Even Swerve. Especially Swerve. Rock on Alex.

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Here is the next of the looping gif animations that were one commission.

The characters are from IDW's Transformers series, Sunstreaker and Bob the Insecticon are fan favourites (including mine). This was a highly enjoyable commission.

I have to upload these seperately due to image size upload restrictions, which is a bit of a bummer because they look better all together.

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This is one of three looping gif animations that were one commission.

The characters are from IDW's Transformers series, Sunstreaker and Bob the Insecticon are fan favourites (including mine). This was a highly enjoyable commission.

I have to upload the other two seperately due to image size upload restrictions, which is a bit of a bummer because they look better all together.

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This is a first draft for the Web Comic project. I was given an old design and asked to create an alien species based on it. There were specifications for differences between males and females.

A second draft with revisions will be made once the project picks up and prices have been worked out.

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More tender for the private project (A web comic). More detailed character design as per specifications for the application.

Top: Humanoid in space suit turnaround. Concept sketch of the species they would find a baby of in the egg.

Bottom: Short 6 panel comic based on text given. No dialogue given, story had to be shown visually only.

Whole thing was a very fun exercise.

I managed to get a job for this comic as Character designer, but the Project hasn't started and is not at all full-time. Payment is more token than real work, but the designing will be good exercise.

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Some human character sketches I did as tender for a private project online.

Just a general range of human poses, expressions, ethnicities, mostly just character design examples. Very basic and very sketchy.

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Resurget Ex Cinis - Alternative Version (by Deathcomes4u)

This is the final version, as played at my Master's final show.

I hhad to change the soundtrack at the last minute because I couldn't procure the rights to the Muse track.

I did manage to get performance/posting permission from the artist who made this track.

There are still some things I would like to tweak and fix before I consider submitting it to any short film festivals.

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Resurget Ex Cinis - Pencil tests (by Deathcomes4u)

A few months down the track from the first animatic and into production, this is a short reel of pencil tests that were used in my final animation.

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ProjectA Test Animatic (by Deathcomes4u)

The original animatic for my major work. At this point it had no title, and the music had not been cut down.

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This was the original character model sheet for my Phoenix character. It went through two changes, but I never had time to make a new character sheet to match the final model.

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Storyboard Draft 3 for 'Resurget Ex Cinis'.

The storyboard was never updated to match the actual final animation layout, since i switched to making many changes through the Animatic, using that as the final film template.

The Storyboards however provided the foundation for the overall structure, and many of the scenes that remained constant in these drafts made it into the final film.

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Second Draft of Storyboard for 'Resurget Ex Cinis'.

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First Proper Storyboard Draft for my major work 'Resurget Ex Cinis'.

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Concept Art for my short film 'Resurget Ex Cinis', an animation inspired by and made to the muse song 'Exogenesis Symphony ptII: Cross Pollination'.

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More fully coloured character concept design sketches for 'Transformers: Legacy' idea - 2012

I have been continuing these out of interest as something of a hobby.

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A collection of rough character drafts, character guides, and colour guides for the 'Transformers: Legacy' Concept - 2012.

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'Transformers: Legacy' Concept panels - 2012 -

These scenes are cpncepts for the pilot episodes of what was my version of a new Transformers series. Based on all the more popular previous incarnations, it is a redux of the original storyline with a more modern, serious twist and the influence of previous series woven throughout.

As well as this, I added my own touches as a fan of the franchise and an avid sci-fi lover, playing up the 'alien' detail and adding my own aesthetic preferences.