Character Design
lolita
This character is based on Vladimir Nabokov's beautiful descriptions of Dolores Haze, the 12-14 year old girl of Humbert Humbert’s dreams, in the classic 1955 novel, Lolita.
Her childishness is often overlooked in favour of her beauty however it is one of the most important elements of her character and very tragic life so I wanted my portrayal of her to reflect that.
I made sure to give her a fun and colourful outfit fitting to her age, personality and the time the story takes place (late 1940’s). However her clothes also reflect Humbert’s desires.
Goomer’s Adventures
Goomer is a tiny bat who lives in the hollow of a really old and massive eucalyptus tree with her large bat community. Everyday she goes out exploring in the nearby city and discovers new and fun things!!
The weird things that the big smooth creatures do intrigue her! and she likes to collect the weird items from their weird forest.
She’s a super fun and adventurous bat who always likes to do new things. Everyone else in her tree is a little cautious of her crazy attitude and fearless nature, meaning that sometimes she is a little cast out of her community and has to continually learn new things about herself and the world around her!
Goomer is designed for puppet animation and targeted towards 4-8 year old children. All of this was taken into consideration throughout the design process. Similarly Goomer’s stories and struggles reflect some of the issues primary school aged children would realistically face in a fun and light-hearted way.
Basic breakdown of various elements including separation of different assets for puppet animation
Fully coloured turnaround
Shape breakdown catered to puppet animation for the complete turnaround
Elephant
Action poses and an expression sheet for one of the main characters in Elephant, the daughter who is dealing with her mother’s dementia throughout the film.
Ceasefire
I designed the secondary main character for the film, Ceasefire, including all of the necessary animation sheets and guides. This design is a part of a complete project style change and was based on initial artwork by Jomei Nguyen. Stephany is a young Australian girl who lives the typical Australian life. She is the complete antithesis of the main character, Rawiya and is used to intentionally contrast and therefore push the horrors happening in Gaza.
The Grave house
These three characters, Bubz (short for Beelzebub), Mophead (no one knows his real name) and Glitch are all room-mates…for some reason. None of them particularly like each other and all of them have their own set of extremely dark secrets. The longer they spend together, though, the more they learn to live with each other and even like each other.
The Heart of Gattle
Dukter is a mysterious and allusive cult leader who lives in the vast sewer system below the town that Johnathan Littlegreen is the mayor of. People in the town keep going missing to the sewers, but no one can prove what is happening because of Dukter’s immense power and Johnathan’s pathetic nature.
Octobriana
Octobriana is a ancient underground Russian superhero created by Petr Sadecky to embody the ideals of communism.
Created for a children's 2D animated series, this version of Octobriana lives undrground in the sewers and uses her andcient powers and home to help anyone and anything in need. She has an extremely strong sense of community and will make friends with everyone!
This Octobriana is created for a short animation based on a fictional lost media game made by the Soviet Union in the late 80's/early 90's as a brainwashing device. The game is now glitched and seemingly sentient and doesn't have good intentions to those who view it.
Punk Octobriana is a hardcore communist fighting against the Puppet Master who is using his power to force unethical capitalism on to the public in order to take control of New Saint Petersburg. She was designed for a comic medium.
The Ice-cream Fantasy
In this project I worked with a small group to make an ice-cream advertisement, selling a fictional maple and bacon flavoured ice-cream. We created a fantasy world on top of the product, filled with a maple river, bacon trees and a creature made of ice-cream with popsicle stick antlers. These assets were used in the final animation and the ice-cream monster was completely designed by me.
The Sandwich Knight
The Sandwich Prophecy is an original story idea I created in which a rugged, old Knight, has dedicated his life to recreating the Prophetic Sandwich, in blind hope of the potential it holds. He has fought many battles, specifically against the ingredients of the sandwich in monster form. He follows the Ancient Sandwich Text and finally creates the sandwich, meeting the Sandwich God. The Sandwich God, however, immediately kills him by diagonally slicing his body into pieces because the silly Knight cut the sandwich into rectangles, not triangles.
