I've always had a heavy interest in animation, and I'd love to break into that industry doing concept work for animated movies, things like sets and character design.
While creating a cohesive portfolio of characters and settings, a story begam brewing in my mind about two girls entering a strange land where they befriend a blue creature that serves as their guide and protector. Through it, the girls grow stronger as sisters and overcome many obstacles.
This is a creepy landscape from the magical world they enter. I was inspired by three main things, the beautiful angularity of trees in Japanese woodcuts, the fractal trees from the film "Coraline", and a very old piece of mine from 2004 that I've always wanted to revisit in some way. This is nothing like how I imagined it coming out, but it seems sometimes you just have to let go and let the paints do what they want to do. :) Definitely worked out to my advantage here!
An environment shot from the sister's hometown, which is pretty much directly influenced by Wormsloe Historic Park here in Savannah. :)With all the spanish moss and twisted live oak trees everywhere, it almost feels like it's a part of the magical world.
An establishing shot of the youngest girl's room. I tried to remember details from my own childhood in the fleshing out of this room, while still keeping the character's personality evident. I'm not 100% happy with the execution of this one, I was trying to see how a flatter look would be. I think for this to pull together, it needs stronger outlines so it's more obviously supposed to be cartoony.
Like I said before, I adore that landscape. I'm also really digging the light on the Wormsloe piece. Nice work, as always. <3
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