Chico Video Character Designs and Screenshots

These are some character designs and screenshots from an animated music video, "Chico." I created all artwork and animation for this video, inspired somewhat by the style and look of Mary Blair's concept art and illustrations.

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Throughout the video, the main character, an El Camino car, sees "Chica" and her back-up singer friends. I designed them so that their visual "look" was consistent from "regular" outfit, to "Southern/Dixie," to mermaids:







The following are several screenshots from the video. The video is "set" in Austin, TX, so I also tried to capture many details of the city and surrounding landscape, while still keeping the colorful, whimsical look I was going for.




As the video heads into sunset and night, the look transitions to a flatter, less textured painting style:





We return to the more detailed look as we head into the Musician's Graveyard:

Visual Development

The following are pre-production images used in the Visual Development process.

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Here is a color mock-up for an animated music video:

This is a character design page for a "Goldilocks"-themed commercial (NOTE: Goldilocks is missing legs because we never see her legs in the ad, so they were never designed; additionally, she is missing all but one of her "locks" because the one lock is duplicated into a full head of hair when brought into After Effects):



These two images are concepts for the main character in a children's book I am illustrating.



These are the final designs for the characters in "The Mouse and the Woodpile."



This is an early concept sketch for my film, "The Conqueror Worm."