Entertainment | jamesottoallen

ENTERTAINMENT WORK

VISUAL STORYTELLING & DESIGN

Traditional skills applied to characters, worlds and stories.

I'm currently building a portfolio in visual development and character design.
My background in classical drawing, anatomy and oil painting helps with the foundations for creating believable characters and compelling worlds.

CHARACTER DESIGN

Character design exploring personality, anatomy, expression and silhouette.

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VISUAL DEVELOPMENT

Worlds, environments and locations developed through colour, lighting and mood.

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SKETCHBOOK

A look at my daily process, studies, experiments and work in progress.

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Studying the harpoons and specifically how whalers would hold the harpoons. Simplifying into cylinders first to understand how the sit in 3d space.

Topic: dynamic sketching
#visdev #characterdesign #harpoon #mobydick #conceptart

Head shapes for Queequeg

Topic: character design
#characterdesign #visdev #illustration #mobydick

Starting with big blocks of shape to whittle down to 3, and then choose 1 from the 3 today as an alternative approach to things as broad as possible from the start.

Topic: character design
#characterdesign #mobydick #visdev #conceptart #illustration

Experimenting with a colour iteration with acrylic over tracing paper. Got the annoying paper rippling effect though.

Topic: character design
#conceptart #visdev #mobydick #painting #illustration

Another Queequeg style today. I’m looking at the amazing #nimona for inspiration and Hokusai for shapes.

Topic: character design
#illustration #charactersesign #visdev #conceptart

Trying out my new block in tonal value marker pens from @cassart1984 drawing from my newly arrived beautiful ‘The Art of Klaus’ book. I absolutely love this movie, hugely inspirational so ‘The Art Of..’ is one of those books I just leave on my desk, so when I sit down to draw, I have a quick flick through to get nice and fired up and inspired. Thank you to @thespastudios for creating such an incredible animated movie!
Topic: Animation #klaus #drawing #illustration #animation

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ENTERTAINMENT WORK

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