2019 Animation Portfolio by BeckD

Beck Dos Santos’ Portfolio 2019

Freestyle Academy 2018-2019

For this portfolio, I will include three aspects: character design, set design, and misc. studies. These are projects I am proud to have made progress in and I hope you enjoy!

Character Design

Character sheet for my character Agnes in my Zenith project, Immortal Grudge. A round, soft style was used to emphasize her youth, but some slight sharp edges were

Character sheet for my character Henry in my Zenith project, Immortal Grudge. Along with a soft style to imply his youth, I also used more round, soft shapes to emphasize his more gentle, innocent personality to contrast against his sister Agnes’

Concept design piece of more aged up versions of my characters, Emily and Caleb. While I wanted to evision what they would look like if they were older, I also wanted to practice balancing similarities and differences in appearance between siblings, plus I wanted to practice drawing older characters.

Concept art for my character, Thomas.

While practicing different poses with this character, I also wanted to practice doing more dynamic, action poses for reference for when I’d do action-oriented animation. His design was also made with a sort of “teenage angst� vibe, from the dark clothes to the dyed hair.

Character reference sheet for my character, Foxgaze. Since he’s supposed to be a more sneaky, mean character, I tried to make his body and facial structure more sharp and sleek. It was good practice for shading animals, but also a reminder for practicing different designs in animals.

Character reference sheet for my character, Cinderstone. I gave him long, mane-like fur to give him a more regal, authoritative vibe. I don’t have as much experience drawing animals as I do drawing humans, so he gave me a good opportunity to practice different perspectives of a cat’s face.

Character reference sheet for my character, Tawnywillow. I tried to practice using different shapes and designs for animals, mainly cats, to prevent them from looking the same in a stylized point of few. Her more round features and curly fur

Set Design An early concept sketch for my Action Reaction Project. Dark, cold tones were used to give off a mysterious, dramatic vibe, the light from the window is meant as a stark contrast in order to emphasize the subject matter. The composition would later be

A perspective study of a standard bedroom.

Several cube-shaped items were placed around the room in order to practice using several vanishing points to structure the room.

Concept Art/Studies

Concept art for an acrylic piece that would later be painted. It would later lead me to a bit of figuring out of three-point perspective that can be better seen in the final piece. The perspective is meant to emit an ominous, mysterious feeling from a fear of heights.

Initial concept art for a metaphorical piece. Some work had to be done to make sure the composition didn’t feel too crowded or too vague for the viewers.

Concept art for a monster character in one of my narrative works. I felt his old design was too plain/too humanoid, and considering his character is supposed to be ominous and frightening as well as other-worldly, I played around with his design a bit and tried to break out of my humanoid mold without it getting too animalistic. Changing his nose and his proportions seemed to help.

Concept bust art for a few unnamed characters. I played around with different face shapes and expressions to figure out their personalities. I’ve always tried to make my characters look different from each other, but lately I’ve been trying to avoid reusing the same shapes for several characters.

Figure study of my animation teacher Ms. Copete.

Second figure study of Ms. Copete.

Third figure study of Ms. Copete.

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed! If you have any questions, you can reach me at beckyvivi@gmail.com.