China City process

Here are some process shots for my China City environment.

My first preliminary drawing, but it just wasn't capturing the feel of the city I was going for. Overhead dragon subways were a little to fantastic/irrelevant for the story.

Once I decided on the thumbnail, it was just a matter of time.

Tycho Brahe Visual Development

So this past semester I've had an independent study with prof. Daniel Krall, working on some pre production art for a hypothetical animation. I chose the story of Tycho Brahe, the 16th century Danish astronomer who lost his nose in a duel against a rival mathmetician. I wish we still settled feuds this way. When did that become out of vogue?







Character designs



An environment for the ballroom


Side characters. I wanted to emphasize how the female interest contrasts with the globular side characters.


Same with the rooster.


Samurai flair.

Arabian Market Place

This is an environment for my character design class (ironically) where my group is redesigning Aladdin for a live action film. This would be the market place. I absolutely love the sketches Shinji Kimura did for Tekkonkinkreet, so I tried to emulate some of those qualities.


graphite on bristol

Here are some color and atmosphere studies. I mostly took saved some photos and paintings I enjoyed and grabbed the color to get different results.