Ki Hyun Ryu (supervising producer) is another major pillar of the Korra production. I first met him in 2003 when I was living in Seoul, working on the pilot of Avatar. A year later, he took the lion’s share of key animation on the premiere episodes, bringing to life some of the series’ most memorable scenes. I’ll never forget when Mike and I first saw the pencil test of Aang sliding down the iceberg and floating up to hug Appa’s head… we were completely blown away. Ryu can make the most mundane scene shine, like Aang’s marble trick and the now-legendary “Foaming Mouth Guy” bit (the latter of which was 100% his crazy idea). After his involvement in those early episodes (including designing Jet and his gang), Ryu moved on to other projects, and eventually moved the U.S., where he’s been working for several years now.
We are incredibly lucky to work with him again and to have him be such a fundamental contributor to the new series Korra and its style. I can comfortably say that he is the most talented artist I’ve ever known, and it is humbling and inspiring to work with him every day. And though he is a kind, hilarious, and humble guy, he draws the meanest caricatures. Of me. And everyone else on the crew. I’m sure I’ll share plenty of those scathing and wicked sketches in time, but for now, let’s enjoy some of his beautiful and seemingly effortless storyboard panels.
This man is an Über talented drawing machine!! I’m jealous of his skills, in a good way.
All concept characters/potential DLC characters for the upcoming game SkullGirls.
The character designs for this game are so creative, I love it. <3
Aladdin (1992) - Character Development, Visual Development, and Storyboards
“Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance and that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner.”
Why am I copy pasting Wikipedia on such an unrelated subject? Because this post on Aladdin appears just as I was singing away “A Whole New World”. And because synchronicities such as this one have been happening way too often these days.
Random character designnn#1
-no arms, no gender, no name
-cannot speak, but thinks so loud that everyone hears it (whether they want to or not)
-thinks of itself as the only beautiful thing alive
-everything it does, it considers fabulous. Even sitting down.
-has no interest in anyone but itself. the whole world could die, it wouldn’t even notice.
-never sleeps, never dies, never closes its pretty eyes.
-looks up to the sky often, whether it’s waiting for something, or seeing something no one else sees
Multiculturalism for Steampunk is starting up a weekly art challenge, and it looks promising. SO EXCITED. I’ve had a bunch of ideas for non-Western steampunk outfits floating around in my head, and it’s nice actually having a weekly deadline to motivate me to finish some of them.
This is pretty subtle in its steampunkery (read: no extranneous metal bits), but I was just trying to bring in a few western/Victorian elements to traditional Indian clothing- legomuttoned sleeves, the double breasted, collared choli, and adapting the churidar into buttoned spats.
…Also a sweet hat.
-C
Did I mention I love this artist?
