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the Missing April Megapost
April was a kind of busy month for me. But I did manage to get in some practice doing things I’m just not used to, and start focusing a little more on working from imagination. So let’s play catch-up in one mega, mostly chronological post: A speedpaint done exploring some new things I’d learned about …
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Firebunny — character turnaround
I forgot I hadn’t posted this. This was the concept art and turnaround for an assignment last year. I still quite like it, and given the chance to do the concept art again, I’d probably do it much the same way. I kept in mind how the model should animate and how I’d like different …
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Speed challenge: Character concept design in an hour
I recently attended the Melbourne Concept Design Workshop. Much, much love and a great brain-opening experience, but I’ll not gush about it in this post. On one of the last days, one of our teachers ran a concept challenge for the class: create a character for a game and according to a brief, in what was …
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Conference promotion: character concepts
So here’s one of the things I’ve been working on lately I was asked to concept and develop some characters for some state educational conferences this year. The client gave me the description of the conferences and their focus, and suggested a visual style then gave me free rein to explore. We picked these four designs …
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Manafumi and the World Colours
Most of the art I’ve been making lately hasn’t been for public viewing. But here’s some stuff I can show — Concept for a poster for Manafumi’s Japan tour, World Colours. I kind of like the abstract mix of colours, but this idea wasn’t suitable. I tried experimenting with a more standardised bishounen look for this, …