Character Sheets – Summer 2020

Color and silhouette tests for Dappermint and Searmint in center, with final looks on left and right. I prioritized readability and high contrast to help draw the focal point while making sure their personalities shined through.

Color palette, profile rendering, expression sheet, fullbody, wing extension, and beast form for Leeds Altair, a tiefling paladin for Dungeons and Dragons.

“Harvest” – Summer 2019

In the summer 2019 gaming industry course, I was art director for the game Harvest on a team of five. I created a style guide and concept art, modeled procedural corn, hand-drew textures, animated the main character, programmed the post-processing, designed UI, and implemented many of the assets into the game itself.

Because Harvest is a horror game, we wanted the player to feel trapped inside the cornfield–to feel as if they’re always being watched. To push the style, I utilized textures to have unsettling eye patterns and to have them move with the camera.

Harvest Style Guide PDF

Animation test for potential textures and menu background

Jes character reference for my video game “Harvest.”

House concept art with human size reference for the modeler’s scale.

House concept art establishing what the front porch would look like and testing texture types. From this I recognized real and psychedelic textures should be avoided.

Barn concept art during the game’s climax, potentially during sunset to get the high contrast of dark and light while symbolizing the player’s impending set on their life.

Barn concept art with human scale reference.

Concept art of Jes out in the field with the sense of eyes on them. Again, testing textures where I figured out we want invented textures with man-made patterns.

“Order Up” – Spring 2019

In a spring 2019 class, I worked on a short film, Order Up. This was an individual project that I took from start to finish, including the pre-production art seen below.

The story is of a barista who has to make a cup of coffee for a pretentious customer and, in the end, ruins the order by plopping her chewed gum into the cup. The animation itself is 3D, but to match the rustic feel of a cafe, I wanted to keep the concept art loose and outline the 3D render with gritty 2D brushes. Below you can see my process.

Barista silohette concept art. I chose two of them to develop slightly further before finalizing the design on another sheet.

Two main poses for the barista. She has limited movement due to the angular 3D style.

Barista model and expression sheet.

Initial camera shot mockup including character silhouettes.

Color Mockups, lying out the palette for the background, main character, coffee, and bubblegum

Storyboard for “Order Up” where the barista make a cup of joe for a pretentious customer and ruins it by plopping her gum in at the end.