This is ‘CAI’! an animation concept art piece i designed for a production company who saw the ‘button” character i designed for a previous client (See here: http://www.maijintheartist.com/art/button/ ) and they wanted to create something similar to that but with its own distinct style. In the design brief they tasked me to mix anime, disney, and hip hop styles into the characters. it was fun…
I was contacted to work on animation project for a client, the client presented me with a concept design brief which outlined their vision for a dystopian alternate universe/world, but with no solid physical description of the characters, i was tasked to conceptualize both the protagonist (Nero) and ‘Dusk’ who will serve as the antagonist for the story. The client mentioned they would like for…
Concept Art preview of The Demon King character i designed for a client’s animation project i was hired to work on. Less tonal value here to achieve that “anime-ish / animation” style. This is the concept design we decided to go with because the client wanted a more medieval fantasy look than the previous anime concept sketches I put together for them.
‘DV1 Concept Art Sketch + Color Comps’ These are iterations of a character i designed (anime-ish style) for a client commission which ended up not making the final cut of the cast of main characters for their animation project i was hired to work on. As you can see for each design i sent different color arrangements to offer different moods for the character. They…
Nero | Animation Concept Art. Concept art i completed a while back for a client who commissioned me for an animation project pitch. got a chance to incorporate the type of anime style that i grew up on which was DOPE!! Anyways, cant go too in depth about the history of this character other than it will be the story’s protagonist and hes a desert…
Orange Ball Speed Painting Study. Took a small break from client work to practice lighting and rendering. had a few books open beforehand then jumped right into it. I started out with the greyscale as you can see below, felt it was a bit boring and wanted to take the opportunity to also practice some quick color theory so i went ahead and splash some…
Another early concept cartoon design rendering i completed a while back for a client who commissioned me for an animation project that is now in development. The left iteration is the girl in her “street style” clothes and iteration on the right is the character in her ‘meta-human’ gear with her superpower glow in effect. I’m sure you noticed that mr teddybear got sick and…
