"Reversal of the Heart" character designs (old)

From way back in Spring 2010. The designs ended up being pretty rushed, since I really just wanted to start animating. As a result, some things ended up changing along the way, although I kept to the designs pretty well.

See the finished film here ~ LINK ~

Character lineup

There is no way the Prince's head could fit into the Knight's helmet, but I kept the design because I liked it.

References for the Knight's design

The Apprentice/Wizard's design changed the most throughout, mostly during production. In the end I made him loopier, with less angles, and his outfit was a bit different.


The Hopgoblin's design also changed a bit as I went along, mostly in color design. He was may favorite to design and animate.








References for the design of the various settings in the film. Early on in the pre-production phase I didn't have any backgrounds or concept art for the settings, so I used a lot of pictures from various artbooks (Tales from Earthsea, Mulan, and How To Train Your Dragon).

"Evenfall" odds and ends

I love combining the median filter and glow filter in Photoshop, so I got the idea to make a short film to show them off.

See the finished film here ~ LINK ~

Basically The characters were drawn with a thin white brush on an alpha channel, then a 1-5 median filter was applied, then the glow filter.



I didn't do much concept work on this one -- just dove right in. I was also animating Hacky Sack at the same time that I was animating Evenfall, so the faster I could get things done, the better.