Last semester in my storyboarding class we did a project based on a myth that teaches why man lives as long as he does and why he goes through the phases of life that he does. I had a lot of fun designing characters for this story and wanted to do it in a sort of African, tribal, cave-painting kind of style. This character is the dog (which we later traded out for a jackal instead), I'll add this and the other character designs to my website. They include God, a man, a donkey, and a monkey. I really enjoyed this project.
This was a personal project that I used for my final last semester. My grandfather always tell us grandchildren about the time he was chased up a tree by a bear while he was working in Idaho for the Bureau of Land Management. It's a great story, but I knew that as a cartoon it might be a little scary unless I embellished some bits (like the part at the end when the bear was shot or the fact that the bear was indeed trying to eat Grandpa). So I altered the story to be more little kid friendly and storyboarded it out. I really wanted to make this feel like the era that it took place in so I opted for a very retro 1950's style. These images are character shots of Grandpa and the Bear.
