Emily Choi - A Rising Star

Another of our recent students who's making a mark is Emily Choi. She started with us last August and has been steadily growing in her skills which were impressive to begin with. Here's a few samples of what she's done from Character Design 1 and into Visual Development.

Rotations are a basic professional requirement when it comes to Character Design. They're the bridge between concept and the production pipeline. Emily did a fine job on her first attempts at this challenging assignment.

Next up is her facial expression assignment. Now that she's established the look of her character it's time to explore how that character behaves...

Getting your character moving about is another important priority in the emergence of the design. Here are a few samples of her action / attitude posing...

This is where Emily makes the transition from concentrating on the form of her designs to rendering. These are samples of her first attempts at tonal illustration using gray scale markers...

Experience with traditional mediums helps in successfully migrating towards the digital side of things. In this example Emily begins with a gray scale tonal rendering then uses that as a foundation for color. She went over her marker rendering with color pencils for a very interesting look through an unusual technique...

This is where she transitions to digital illustration. Her first assignment in Photoshop...

   

Among her most recent assignments is this color illustration she created for a new project she's developing. Emily did this full color digital illustration based upon the approach she worked with traditionally going from gray scale to color...