Scott - Character Design

I'm writing a new comic that I hope to start drawing over Winter Break and here are a couple of the character designs I've come up with so far.

Scott - Sketches 11/17

I am dominating this blog. I don't think William and Jessica ever remember it ;__;

Scott - Backgrounds

These are the fairly rough drawings for my final project for Animation Basics 2 with Liz. The smaller ones took a few hours to put together but the last one took something like 5 or 6 hours on its own. It was awful.

However this was all good perspective and background practice.

Scott - October Sketches

Random digital sketches.

Scott - Gift of Music Storyboard

I didn't explain the last board, but I like this one better so I figured I would give some context. In this story, a young boy hears a tale about a forest sprite that lives near his village from his grandfather. In days gone by, the forest sprite gave mankind the gift of music and asked nothing in return. Over the years, the sprite became more reclusive until nobody had seen it for quite some time. The boy asks what would happen if he were to catch it, but the grandfather only smiles and says he isn't sure.

At this point the boy realizes the sun is setting and that he has to go home for dinner. He runs down the stairs and outside, waving goodbye to his elder. He runs through town where his mother pokes out from their home, yelling at him that he is late and that he should grab some water from the well. He responds, "Yes, mom!!" and carries on running down the road. She yells at him to slow down.

As he draws water from the well, he begins to hear soft flute playing coming from the bamboo forest around the well. He turns to see a glimmering light and drops his bucket to chase it into the woods. He carries on through the woods and crosses random obstacles until he finally sees it disappear over a hill and hears the music stop. He enters a clearing that appears empty and looks around. He then sees the sprite floating there, not moving. He approaches it, then imperiously demands to be given skill with music. The sprite stares at him. He stares back. After some time of the sprite not moving at all, he begins to become scared and steps back. As he does, the sprite leans back and reaches into it's flowing garments. It leans forward and gives him something. We see that it is a flute. The boy looks curiously up at the sprite, not sure what this means, then raises it to his lips to play a tune.

Only shrill notes come out. The boy looks up, startled and disappointed but finds that he has been left alone. He stands there for a minute, looking down at the flute in his hands and, finally, makes a stern expression. He raises the flute to his lips once more and begins to practice; trying to play the song he heard from the sprite. As he does, he turns off into the woods. We see him disappear eventually, but continue to hear him playing. The screen fades to black with him still playing as we hear him get a few notes right.

Scott - Storyboards!

We do a lot of storyboards in our Concept Creation class. The goal is to have a few ideas at the end of the semester to work from for our junior and senior animation projects. This was my first attempt and I'm not terribly happy with the concept but I figured I'd upload it here.

Scott - Sketchbook

Some random drawings from a sketchbook using pencil, brush pens, and Micron Pens.

Scott - A Ton of Sketches

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Just wanted to do a different style of sketch of one of my characters, Kielo. I've been drawing her off and on for a while now and I have a story I want to write about her but I'm not sure I've got a strong enough handle on perspective and urban architecture to really begin the artwork for it. She's really a fun character to think about though.

I have a strong desire to create vertical banners for either side of our booth at Anime Boston this year and this was my idea for the design for my banner. I'd probably zazz it up before I got it printed, obviously, but I like it overall.

It's hard to try and take sketches further. I feel like my sketches have a lot more character than my final work most of the time. So sad.

I christen thee, O blog!

I have decided to finally grace this blog with my presence and o what a presence it is!

I am a classy dude. Check out those boobies! *CACKLE*

Also, I'd upload more but I only upload NEW THINGS that I specifically made FOR THIS BLOG. Unlike some people I know...*glares at Jessica* >:O