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Here are some of the character designs that I tried for my music video character, Super Miss Havisham in Space!

Enjoy!

Camping

Weekend Senate Duties

For my final project in the storyboarding class, I will be creating a sort of storyreel for a music video, composed of storyboards of the various shots.  My theme is “Miss Havisham, in a spacestation, is practicing being a superhero.”  So, as interesting as that may seem, I think that it will be fun to work on!  Below, I have included a backstory for the “Miss Havisham in space” character.  Enjoy!

Name: Miss Havisham
Favorite Food: Wedding Cake
Favorite Hobby: Matchmaking (and breaking!)
Biggest Fear: Fire
Favorite Place to Sleep: In her command chair
Where does she live?: Aboard the S.S. Krypton
Favorite TV show: Smallville
Favorite obnoxious sound: Laser beam
Backstory Paragraph (see vacant Planet): Miss Havisham was born on the planet Romulus, the daughter of a defected Vulcan ambassador and a Romulan intelligence officer.  Her defining moment was when her husband-to-be did not show up at their wedding, taking her fortune with him.  Dismayed, she retreated to her space-station home, where she lived alone, but she always left here wedding cake on display in the middle of her home.  Her superpowers developed gradually over the years, due to the cosmic radiation she was exposed to.  As well, her dismay gradually morphed into a quietly suppressed rage.
Dominant character trait: Brooding anger
Where they grew up: the planet Romulus
What kind of parents did they have?: Vulcan and Romulan
What’s the best thing that ever happened to them?: Landing as a child on the Earth.
The worst thing that ever happened to them: Her fiancé left her at the altar.

"Peanuts" by Charles Schulz

"Foxtrot" by Bill Amend

"Family Circus" by Bil Keane

For an assignment in storyboarding class, I chose three comic artists whose work I admired.  I really like each of these three styles because of the simplicity of the lines, the minimalistic shading, and the stark contrasts.

These images are for a storyboarding exercise that looked for “face” designs in unforeseen locations, demonstrating how little it takes to make the mind see a face.  Enjoy!

Emotion Intensity Graphs

Expression Tests

Here are a couple of expression tests that I worked through last week with my character.