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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.

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

Some more work in progress.

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

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

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.

Some deer from the dark

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.

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

some recent sketches and paintings

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

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

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.

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

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.

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