Character Design

2019 - 2023

Avatar: Blood bender Matriarch (2023)

A character design exploring the question, “how can I make blood bending more morally complex?”

This woman is part of a clandestine/ not-so-clandestine group of vigilante female water benders. Living in the extremely patriarchal and misogynist society of the Northern Water Tribe, these women bring consequences to any man who mistreats a woman or girl. Their weapon of choice? Blood bending, a forbidden art that no one else is desperate enough to learn.

The Fear That Haunts Me: James & Wendy (2023)

Character turnarounds of Captain James “Hook” and Wendy Darling for The Fear That Haunts Me by Rachel Hoover, a Peter Pan story in which Peter is the villain and Hook is the good guy, told from a grown up Wendy’s perspective.

Thesis Project: Abba’s Golem (2022)

This project was designed to allow me to explore and compare my sister interests of character design and costume design. The characters come from a short film script I co-wrote titled Abba’s Golem. A post-apocalyptic judeo-fantasy story about an old Rabbi, his daughter, and their golem wandering through the wasteland in search of Jerusalem. The story is set in a magical version of the late 19th century. Jews practice magic as an integral part of their religious practice and cultural identity, while the rest of the world embraces technology and regards magic as primitive and backwards. The apocalypse began one year before the script starts, and came in the form of clouds of spores that cause everything the touch to rapidly decay. My goal with these designs was to create a fantastical Jewish aesthetic informed by thorough research and infused with magical and apocalyptic elements.

The project has four components: character designs, an animated screen test, costume designs, and swatch sheets. The character designs are below, the animated screen test is in the animation section of this portfolio, and the costume designs are in the costume design section of this portfolio.

Steam & Steel Group Project (2021)

For this group project my team and I were given 7 generic character descriptions from which to design characters. We were allowed to choose the names and genders of the characters, and the time period/ genre we wanted to design for. We each designed 2-3 characters. My role after that was to create the character lineup. I designed Ravena and Vittorio, as well as Ravena’s action poses.

Carmen Sandiego Villains (2021)

The goal of this project was to create two new characters for an existing animated franchise, emulating the style as closely as possible. I chose to design two new villains for Carmen Sandiego. All the villains in the show have some sort of theme or gimmick, so I based my designs around the themes of fashion and mushrooms.