"Pew Pew Tower" concept sketches

These are some character and concept designs for a game project I'm working on.

Here is the playable character, our plucky spaceman:




My team liked the white one the best; finished, vectored design:


A preliminary weapon design:


The enemies in the game, cute little space mice that have a nasty bite:

Character Design HW

I recently took a character design class at the Animation Academy. Here's some samples of some of my homework:





Really fun class, and I got some nice drawings out of it! I'll post more images later.

New Demo Reel

This is a reel of my current animation work as of January 2010. Included are samples of my student films, some personal work, and recent professional work that I did for Fox Sports.

Bryan Young's Demo Reel from Bryan Young on Vimeo.

Here is the reel break down:

1. “Space Blaster” (2007): self-directed student film.
Responsible for Character and Background Design, Animation, Coloring, Compositing.
2. “Duck Boy” (2009): self-directed student thesis film.
Responsible for Character and Background Design, Animation, Coloring, Compositing.
3. “Secondary Motion Test” (2008): character animation exercise.
4. “Igor Freaks Out” (2008): character animation test experimenting with expressions and takes.
5. “King and Us” Ep 11 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Character Animation.
6. “King and Us” Ep 09 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Character Design, and Animation.
7. “King and Us” Ep 15 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Character Design, Animation, and effects.
8. “King and Us” Ep 14 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Background Design, Character Design, Animation, and effects.
9. “King and Us” Ep 13 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Background Design, Character Design, and Animation.
10. “King and Us” Ep 04 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Character Animation.
11. “King and Us” Ep 07 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Background and Props, Character Design, Animation, and effects.
12. “King and Us” Ep 15 (2009): animated cartoon for Fox Sports.
Responsible for Character Animation

Painting on Carboard is Fun!!!

Here's a nice piece I made this weekend:



I always have this idea of painting on cardboard boxes and never do, so as a result I have a ton of cardboard boxes sitting around my apartment. This weekend, I actually sat down and got to it, and I'm quite pleased with the results. The combination of black and white on brown, is both mellow and high contrast, and carboard has a natural texture and grain to it. It also has a very impermanent and gritty feel, which is another thing I really like. I'm going to have to make point to do this more often.

Feeling Crabby?

Here's a monster I created recently. I was playing with shapes and arrived at the shell, and then built the body out of the shell. I don't know if it really works that well as a concept design. The shell is far too large and ungainly for a creature with such spindly limbs. I imagine this creature would merely fall over. Maybe I'll try again later

Some Sci-Fi Stuff

Some fun sci-fi concepts:



And a cartoon:

Angel of Death

Random character design I did today:







Here's some further studies in Photoshop: