MFA Visual Development
Visual development work from my MFA — taking classic stories and imagining how they'd feel on screen: character design, environment, mood, and color script. A few representative pieces from each project below; the full collection lives on my art blog.
A sinister hostess, by way of Klimt
From Roald Dahl's The Landlady. I imagined her as cold and snake-like — poison-blue skin, wide mouth, watchful eyes — and developed her design alongside a poster and a sheet of facial expressions. Drawing on Gustav Klimt and Toulouse-Lautrec for palette and pattern.
Color scripts for a riverbank winter
Environment and color work for Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows — keyframe comps that set time of day, weather, and warmth: Mr. Toad's reckless crash, and a snug Christmas dinner at Mole's with carol-singing hedgehogs at the door.
