Design Studio: Art & Design in Context

Showcase Project

The Last Man on Earth Reimagined: Animation & Book

December 2024

    • Adobe After Effects

    • Clip Studio Paint

    • Blender

    • Google Slides

  • This project reinterprets the Vincent Price classic The Last Man on Earth, relocating the story from a post-apocalyptic modern setting to the era of the bubonic plague. My goal was to explore how the same themes of isolation and survival might unfold in a drastically different historical context.

    As part of this concept, I produced a five-second animated clip and designed three pages that would belong in a hypothetical art book for the reimagined film. The animation process began in Blender, where I blocked out scenes using rough placeholder models to establish motion and timing. I then rotoscoped the footage in Clip Studio Paint to keep the concept arts original style.

    The final animation is presented in black and white as an homage to the original film, with subtle accents of blue introduced selectively to emphasize key elements and create a haunting contrast.

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This was the first series of concept sketches made during the Project. The zombies, or vampires as their called in the movie, of this reimagining were modeled after medieval peasants, with great care added to make the scaring on the skin comparable

This was the first series of concept sketches made during the Project. The zombies, or vampires as their called in the movie, of this reimagining were modeled after medieval peasants, with great care added to make the scaring on the skin comparable to the real disease of the 17th century.

Very early in conceptualizing the story, an fully color version was tested out. although, due to time constraints and stylistic preference, the black and white sketches became the main designs used in the project.

Very early in conceptualizing the story, an fully color version was tested out. although, due to time constraints and stylistic preference, the black and white sketches became the main designs used in the project.

Many changes were made to the main character of this story. Now a plague doctor, this protagonist was given a classic plague mask and priest like robes to hint at a more religious angle the character would adopt in the hypothetical story.

Many changes were made to the main character of this story. Now a plague doctor, this protagonist was given a classic plague mask and priest like robes to hint at a more religious angle the character would adopt in the hypothetical story.

A still from the initial 3D animation created in Blender, used as a reference for rotoscoping the final hand-drawn animation. The scene features placeholder models and basic lighting, serving as a precise guide for motion, perspective, and compositio

A still from the initial 3D animation created in Blender, used as a reference for rotoscoping the final hand-drawn animation. The scene features placeholder models and basic lighting, serving as a precise guide for motion, perspective, and composition during the rotoscope process.

An in production photo during the rotoscoping process. Over 130 frames were drawn for both characters to create just five seconds of animation.

An in production photo during the rotoscoping process. Over 130 frames were drawn for both characters to create just five seconds of animation.

A small collection of the reference material sourced to design the characters and world of this reimagining. Of note is the real photo of the buboes formed when infected with the bubonic plague that became a key inspiration for how this movies vampi

A small collection of the reference material sourced to design the characters and world of this reimagining. Of note is the real photo of the buboes formed when infected with the bubonic plague that became a key inspiration for how this movies vampires would look.

this is a series of many screenshots from the original "Last Man on Earth" film that were used to ensure the main character of this reimagining still resembled the lead actor Vincent Price.

this is a series of many screenshots from the original "Last Man on Earth" film that were used to ensure the main character of this reimagining still resembled the lead actor Vincent Price.

Additional Projects

The Gnome Game

September 2024

    • Blender

    • Unity

    • DevOps

    • Visual Studio

    • Clip Studio Paint

    • Adobe Illustrator

    • Adobe After Effects

  • In this collaborative Unity project, our team of three developed a comedic two-button video game focused on memory, replayability, and branching outcomes. I handled character design, storyboarding and animatics for the cutscenes, and gameplay programming.

    The game follows three gnomes on a quirky mission to collect ingredients for a potion and a doll. Items that ultimately combine to create a fourth baby gnome.

    Gameplay is split into two sections over two rounds: gnome controlled item fishing across a river, followed by a sorting phase where players select the five highest-scoring items. Player performance influences one of four unique endings, encouraging multiple playthroughs.

    shown above is one of the bad endings where a bad doll is made in the second round, creating a monster-like gnome instead of a cute baby gnome.

Lights Out… Motion and Macabre Animation

October 2024

    • Adobe After Effects

    • Adobe Audition

    • Adobe Substance Painter

    • Blender

    • Clip Studio Paint

  • Created over the course of 31 days for a Halloween deadline, Lights Out… is a short, first person horror animation of a kid being haunted by a squid-like monster flying past his bedroom window.

    Every element of the project was designed myself, including models, textures, animation, lighting, effects, and sound design.