Another from Brandon Russell.  Watch and learn, kiddies.

The Temple, from "The Offering".

Proposed landscape for an alien world, from a new project.  Nice!

Interior from a new student film project.

more characters!

the China component

We have students from China every year now. They are so well trained over there but they all seem to want that American willingness to work towards the unexpected, and we're pretty good at that here at Cogswell.  Heng Feng is a good example; his work was beautiful when he arrived. He created a princess character and I challenged him to subvert the idea of a princess.  We had some back and forth about that notion and then he drew this character, which I really,  really liked.  Another character page below that shows her in all her many moods.

the most beautiful girl...

My favorite character in the whole world, for the moment.

This and the next two from a film Heng has been creating in China and here in the USA.

iteration

Designers have to offer many versions of an idea for the director to evaluate.  Here are four iterations of a temple medallion from Brandon Russell.  The hard truth about concept design is that a lot of your work ends up discarded, no matter how hard you worked on it or how much you like it.The critiques are tough, pragmatic, and to the point, and it takes a thick skin sometimes.  Art's not for sissies!

Another beautiful landscape from Brandon for the film "The Offering"

Castles and Temples

A few designs by Brandon, Joyce, Jon, and Steve for different films; one set in India and one one an island near Japan.  I really like the clarity and creativity of these drawings - clean and highly useful to the modelers.