Sherlock Holmes ideas.

Teaching a class at Art Center College of Design this term and working with some fantastic students that have a hunger for growth with great passion in there ideas and designs. This weeks assignment is to record yourself acting out lines from a movie script and translate it into your character designs. This is the first time I tried this technique as an assignment for my class. It is going pretty well for the most part. First, I thought I should do the assignment myself as an example. For my script I chose 'Sherlock Holmes' which is also a story that I am doing at work as an assignment that Shiyoon Kim a friend from work gave me to help me with my growth as a character designer. I will say for these designs I have many influences and that would be First Shiyoon and his unique way of approaching character design along with Walter Peregoy, Oliver Hurst and a little more of Shiyoon Kim, hahaha, thanks Shiyoon. Here are some of the designs that came out of this exercise. Just a side note. I chose to try this technique with the class and with myself in my own work mostly because I was influenced by the animation department at Disney Animation Studios and how they approached there scenes before the started to animate. This technique proved to be a great way to get my mind in the head of the character and to come up with original poses that could give a personal touch to my designs. Although these I admittedly aren't the most original takes on Sherlock Holmes, I feel at least it's a better start had I just began to design with out any intention of acting it out physically. Hope you enjoy these, thanks for reading.

~Jeff