Offspring - Character Designer, Concept Artist, Storyboard Artist
An undead teenager (otherwise known as an Offspring) navigates his everyday life between becoming a Slasher like his father or staying human.
This is a passion project by two middle school friends who reconnected over our shared love of animation! My old friend Hannah Silverman commissioned me to design characters for her pitch bible for her animated horror pilot “Offspring,” visually inspired by works such as Invader Zim: Enter The Florpus, Gravity Falls, and Gorillaz. From there, Hannah created a successful Indiegogo campaign and hired on a small team to create an animatic. You can watch the full animatic here, in which I storyboarded the first half.
You can keep up with the project on the Offspring Instagram and Twitter account, and check out Hannah Silverman’s screenwriting work here.
Lineup of the main cast & secondary characters
Inspiration & design exploration for Junior
Junior expression sheet
Junior mouth chart
Junior turnaround
Inspiration & design exploration for Musume
Musume poses & expressions
Special Poses
Duke expression sheet
Faye expression sheet
The Carver turnaround
Color styling for an exterior city setting at night. Original background from Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Color styling for an overcast lake setting. Original background by Rebecca Hu.
Color styling for a vibrant, stylized indoor setting. Original background from Invader Zim: Enter The Florpus.
Background design for Junior and The Carver’s bayou home, & color designs
Set My Soul On Fire - Character Designer
Gabe Alexander, a recent graduate from SCAD’s screenwriting Masters program, commissioned me to create character designs for a pitch bible for “Set My Soul On Fire,” A modern fantasy story about demons, angels, love, and identity. Set in a fantastical version of Las Vegas, I combined street style clothing with hints to the characters’ true identities as an ice dragon with a dry and dark sense of humor (Jin-Hai), a human with an angelic lineage fighting for justice (Alia), and the demon queen and her loyal right-hand-demon (Corvin and Zamir).
Lineup of the five main characters
Design exploration for Alia, the protagonist with an angelic lineage
Design exploration for Corvin, Queen Of Demons, in her human disguise
Design exploration for Zamir, Corvin’s right hand man, in his human disguise
Color styling for a city at sunset. Original background by Rebecca Hu.
Color styling for a city in the early morning.
Color styling for a city at night.
color styling for a city at golden hour
The Veiled Enclave - Personal Project
Development of various original characters in a high fantasy setting and an exercise in worldbuilding.
Dagger designs
Prop designs for a journal, feather, potion, pouch (open and closed), and map
Designs for a holy healer with a penchant for some lighthearted trickery
Above: silhouettes and color studies
Right: final character design
Above: silhouettes and color studies
Left: final character design
Aquatic Adventure - Personal Project
Designs for a children’s animated action/comedy show about two Adventurers tasked with protecting a princeling Tadpole, set in an aquatic Mesoamerican-inspired fantasy environment.
Lineup of the three main characters
Costume breakdown by layer
Color exploration for an early design of the main character.
Hand drawings
Tadpole design & color experimentation