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Designs & Tests

A collection of illustrations, sketches, pitch frames and animation tests for Studio AKA, Giant Ant and Glassworks Barcelona.

Stylized hillside town of pink and purple towers beside wind turbines at sunset.
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Designs & Tests is a collection of illustrations, sketches, pitch frames and animation studies, including work for Studio AKA, Giant Ant and Glassworks Barcelona. It includes pitches that did not reach production and style frames for Giant Ant's Stickboy Opera from 2014.

Design Studies

  • A small boat casts a bright beam across a dark river below angular green cliffs.
  • A woman sets a table beneath a hanging lamp in a dark blue room.
  • An overhead view of a dining table and chairs in a blue room lit by a single lamp.
  • A woman in a patterned red blouse looks toward a reflected face in a blue interior.
  • The word Wilderness appears over a purple forest canopy.

Animated Studies

An autogyro turnaround, the CUPRA Terramar turnaround, and pitch tests for architecture, a coastal road and a horror-story alley.

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Character Tests and Breakdowns

Character turnarounds, a head study and a compositing breakdown from my work on The Kid Who Would Be King with Glassworks Barcelona. These show the illustrated characters in motion and how the shots came together.

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See the project for the designs and full making-of film.

Landscapes and Worlds

  • An orange train crosses a tall wooden trestle between dark forest trees.
  • A narrow white house stands high among the trunks of dark conifers.
  • A small steamboat crosses a pale green river below a cliff and a sweep of white cloud.
  • A close view of a wooden steamboat cutting through green water.
  • A pale waterfall drops between towering ochre canyon walls.
  • Wooden houses on stilts crowd a river beneath immense brown cliffs.
  • A blue waterfall descends between sheer cliffs above a village and dark conifers.

Character and Lighting Studies

  • A hooded figure stands in a shadowy blue passage, seen from behind.
  • A bearded man in a green hat looks upward through a haze of green and gold.
  • A dark suited figure stands on a bright blue platform beneath looping white lines.
  • Two silhouetted figures stand among angular blue and purple planes.

Energy Pitches

  • Stylized hillside town of pink and purple towers beside wind turbines at sunset.
  • Man in a red jumper checks his phone on an orange sofa, framed as a thought bubble.
  • Large orange sun rising over green hills, surrounded by yellow lightning bolts.
  • Colorful block letters spelling Sustainable Energy between green leaves on a blue background.
  • Person in a blue cap and lightning-bolt shirt leaps through pink and orange lightning shapes.
  • Two electricity pylons against red and green backdrops, with the words Fossil and Renewable.
  • Two people hold hands as a woman reaches up toward a glowing light bulb.

Environments

  • Rainy night view of a curved glass tower with one lit window and toy-like traffic below.
  • Rain-streaked office at night with three workers at desks and glowing monitors.
  • Black and white painting of a lone skyscraper rising from a dark, smoky city skyline.
  • Black and white figure with outstretched arms floats in hazy light, surrounded by small diagrams.

Horror Story Pitch

  • Black and white illustration of a hulking figure walking down a narrow cobbled alley.
  • Loom-like machine in a dark stone hall, with a hooded figure at the top of the stairs.
  • Smoking factory chimney behind a telegraph pole, in loose black-and-white brushwork.
  • Brick church tower wrapped in cables between dark silhouettes, in black and white.
  • Angular black rock spires and a steep staircase beneath a diagonal iron gantry.
  • Two views of a stitched, scarred humanoid figure with a long neck against a dark textured background.

Objects and Spaces

  • Overhead view of an orange coffee mug on a mustard table beside a white sheet.
  • Cream airplane flies through clouds against a black sky, trailing a gray ribbon.
  • Orange barrel tipped on a mustard floor beside a pool ladder and a blue parasol.
  • Cream and yellow house with a ladder beside a toppled dark building, joined by a white ribbon.

Characters and Pitch Illustrations

  • A cyclist rides along a pink road between dark geometric shadows.
  • A cyclist leans forward in a sprint against streaks of pink and burgundy.
  • Three panels of a cyclist, from a distant rider on an empty road to a close sprint.
  • Three dogs in bandanas: one sitting beside a cardboard box, one lying down, one standing.
  • Yellow and black ink drawing of a woman with a fringe writing in a notebook.
  • Yellow and black ink drawing of a chef in a tall hat tossing food in a frying pan.
  • Bearded man with glasses and orange headphones, seen from behind, beside colored squiggles.
  • Man and woman dance together on a cream background with scattered colored ribbons.
  • Woman in earphones and a blue top strides mid-run across a tan background.
  • Woman in a straw hat and pink polka-dot top stands with hands on hips before pale hills.
  • Woman in a white blouse and long navy skirt stands beside a bearded man in a yellow shirt.
  • Two scenes: a woman reading in a lounge chair, and a couple walking a dog with luggage.

Winter Sports

  • Small sledding athlete races down a blue ice slope beside the words Not today, my friend.
  • Skier in a white helmet and goggles carves down a snowy mountain beside the PyeongChang 2018 logo.
  • Three character studies of winter athletes in black and yellow suits, with the PyeongChang 2018 logo.

Sketches

  • Black brushstrokes cross a rust-orange sun and a pale pink shape on a white page.
  • Black brushstrokes over a pale circle and a white organic shape on a rust-red page.
  • Orange paper-cut cat with whiskers stands among gray, blue and black cut-out shapes.
  • Potted plant with angular green leaves on a cream background with pink shapes.
  • Short black dashes cover an orange page in flowing diagonal patterns.
  • A man lies under a low table on floor cushions in a purple-lit room.
  • Woman in a gray top and jeans stands beside a mirror and an abstract painting, in blue tones.
  • Bearded man in round glasses and a beanie, in blue tones, framed by guitars.
  • Bearded man in round blue glasses, in red and purple, framed by leaves and dots.
  • Man in a suit and tie with round glasses stands among falling paper shapes, in blue tones.
  • Portrait of a man in a dark collared shirt in front of a peach and pink circle.

Stickboy Opera

  • Gray painted scene of a silhouetted head with an open top, ringed by a bow, mace, hammer and machete.
  • Overturned car with glowing red taillights beside a gravestone marked R.I.P.
  • Looking up at a tower of filing cabinets beneath a bright sky, with papers scattered around.
  • Close-up of a slit-pupilled eye ringed by fine, scratchy lines.
  • Old television showing static against a smoky gray background.