Final Dragonfries Concept Art

The a rough version of the male characters final design.

It was suggested that adding legs might look better, but I really didn't like the overall effect with the legs, it looks too much like Antz.

So I reverted back to my simple leg-less design.

Some character poses.

The rough version of the female design.

Again, I tried the design with legs... And it makes her look like a dinosaur in side view. Not what I was going for.

Much better!

Female Character Poses.

Some shack design concepts.

A quick color study of the shack and it's surroundings.

Environment layout.

Final Environment.

I redid the design of the bug zapper since it needed to have a more round bulb.

Color Beat of dragonflies dancing.

Color Beat of their kiss.

Color Beat of their untimely demise.

All in all I'm really excited to start working on my Thesis project, and I can't wait to show it to everyone this time next year!

Thesis Pitch: Dragonfries

This is the Thesis Pitch I'm planning to make into a short movie during senior year. It's about a female dragonfly who just wants to be in love, but the guy she choses gets a little distracted so she has to save him. Here's a collection of work I've done for the project so far. 

The overall lighting effect will be like these images. I took reference from Gnomeo and Juliet, Princess and the frog, and Lady and the Tramp.

Some character design and environment design reference. 

Some inspirational images that I gathered.

Female character silhouette exploration

More exploration

Male silhouette exploration

Rough male and female designs.

Male character breakdown with references

Female breakdown with references

Semi-Final character designs. I ended up changing these designs later because I wasn't really satisfied with where they ended up. 

Some bug zapper designs

A semi-final bug zapper design. I'll probably revisit this to make it better.

Rough environment design.

Another rough environment design.

Color studies of the mood.

Beginning

Middle

End

These last three images are the parts of the story I created a color study for. They give the overall mood of the moment.

This is what I decided to change the Character designs to. I'm happier with the feel of these characters. I still have to render them, so that will be done soon.

A rough turnaround of the male dragonfly. It will be finalized soon. So will the female's turnaround.

Thesis Pitch

In the end, this Thesis idea didn't work out as well as I was hoping, but some good things did come out of it, I was able to create suspenseful scenes, and an organized chase scene, but the overall story didn't quite come together. Here's all of the imagery work I created for this thesis project.

The main character is an Arctic Mink, here are some reference images of the animal.

Some Character Design Reference.

I wanted the overall look to be similar to the Ice Age movies.

Some early character exploration.

More exploration.

Some head exploration.

A character breakdown with references and color changes.

The final character design. I was pretty satisfied with how he came out. I think he's cute.

Some Environment designs.

Lighting changes.

These last few are parts of the story that were redone in color to give the overall feel of the moment.