Character Designer & Illustrator
Ripple: A 2D-animated film about mermaids
⋆ Art Director ⋆ Character Designer ⋆ Lead Environment Artist ⋆
⋆ Art Director ⋆ Character Designer ⋆ Lead Environment Artist ⋆
A mermaid struggles with accepting new friends in her fishbowl.
Max and Ivana are personal characters, now contextualized for the animation scene.
Character Design Test (Reflection Games) - Bomber & Giant prompts were given
Pulse is a fictional world based in South Korea, where only a few are blessed with supernatural powers. Accompanying them are strange familiars that resemble tigers.
Year of Dargen: A 2D bullet hell game
⋆ Lead Character Artist ⋆ Producer ⋆
⋆ Lead Character Artist ⋆ Producer ⋆
I created Lucia for the sole purpose of practicing expressions. She's a young vampire with a snappy temper.
Chad is the result of exploring multiple trapeze artist designs. I wanted to delve deeper into material callouts with this project, and make his laid-back personality read through his expression.
Character Design Test (Nanobit) - Allowed me to explore a variety of styles using young and old characters.
Illustration Art Test (DreamSail) - I had the opportunity to submit an art test with DreamSail, an indie game company based in NYC. The deliverables asked of me were to design an underwater ruin, and incorporate that design into an illustration with a JRPG layout using the game's character, Shuma.
ZBrush Sculpt - Ethan is a character I already had, so my focus in the beginning was just on costume variation. I then sculpted him using ZBrush and rendered in Keyshot.
Nebby is a celestial creature that I brewed up after combining elements from 3 different animals: a fawn, a blue jay, and a raccoon. The name "Nebby" was inspired by the creature's nebula-like qualities.
A collection of my favorite personal art