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Avatar Academy Character Design

As part of my application to Avatar Academy, I designed a character in the art style of the series.

 

Meet Tsuba! Originally a non-bending street urchin hailing from Republic City, they spontaneously acquire airbending abilities after the Harmonic Convergence. They train with the other airbenders for several months before deciding they preferred a more independent (and self-serving) lifestyle. Tsuba leaves Air Temple Island to embark on a vagabond adventure of their own where, despite their rapscallion personality and sticky fingers, they manage to band together a family of their own.

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Chasing Faces

MFA Thesis project--storyboards can be found here.

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Mask Designs

I was the concept art lead and was in charge of designing our main character, Doodle. We later won Best Character Design at Lonely Wolf 2022 International Film Festival!​ Big props also go to my 3D team members who brought our lil axolotl to life :)

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Jurassic Joyride

A bored young cave boy comes across a mysterious space vehicle. Upon investigating, he accidentally launches the ship (and himself) into space. There, he encounters the wondrous sights of the universe…until a chance encounter with a stray asteroid sets off a chain of events that kick-starts the beginning of the Ice Age.

As the team lead, I conceptualized, wrote, and directed a team of four through the visual development of this story. Our team's production bible was chosen to be the animation film produced in next year's production studio!

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Castlevania Character

A character done in the style of Netflix's animated series Castlevania. She is a human mother who lures unsuspecting victims into her home to feed her half-vampire children.

Castlevania and its concepts do not belong to me.

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Arcana

An owl-girl hybrid concept.

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Bonus 3D sculpt!

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Sculpted in ZBrush

Retopologized in TopoGun

UV Layout in Headus UVLayout

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