For a time, I thought I wanted to specialise in character design, so I’ve got a fair amount of bits and pieces from the Starcrossing pre-production floating around. I ended up deciding that 2D animation and Storyboarding would always be my first loves, but I do still enjoy a spot of character design in what little free time I have!
Shay Commander, our director had already done a lot of character work for this project prior to it first being pitched to the rest of the class – Honey’s iconic star buns were a result of that! So, when creating my mood boards, I took inspiration and questions from both their work, as well as Emma Shanks, who had done some drawings of versions of the characters too by this point.
You can see a couple of their drawings in this moodboard already.
Like I said before, I did end up moving around specialisms quite a lot, so I wasn’t able to go much further than this with the character design work I was doing.
Still! I do really like what I made, eve if it didn’t make it to the final film!