Animation Design

I’ve worked for 10+ years in animation as an Art Director, concept artist, designer for 2D & 3D, background artist and editor. I specialize in location and prop design, lighting and colour design, and colour keys.

I was the Art Director for Monkie Kid, Season 5 (2D. Lego) and Go, Dog. Go! Season 2 (3D. Dreamworks), and Location and Lighting Designer on the Peanuts Specials, Season 1 (2D. Apple). I was a BG layout/paint artist on the emmy-winning Last Kids on Earth at Atomic Cartoons, a BG paint Supervisor, key/bg painter at Titmouse on Captain Underpants (Dreamworks TV) and Archibald (Dreamworks TV) among others. Before moving into art and design, I edited animatics on All Hail King Julien and Puss in Boots (Dreamworks TV / Bardel).

I you think my work and style might be a good fit for your project, please contact me to discuss further.

PROCESS: The Barn

This piece was based on a photograph of my grandparent’s barn, now long gone. I kept it quite loose and from start to finish, it took me about a day. In my own work, I will often take a rough sketch straight into flattish colour blocking, and then will add volume through shadows and light, then textures, fine details and highlights. Then it’s ready for the lighting pass for mood and emotion.

Playing with lighting is one of my favourite things for creating mood an emotion in a piece. Lighting keys are quick and sometimes surprising, and can take an image into new territory.

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Email: robyndrage@gmail.com
Cell: 778.689.9544

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