Client work: Game graphics, fish vs. octopus
Client work: Game graphics
This client had a story to tell, and it was a tale of fish vs. octopus!
evil octopus monarch, character design for game graphic
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screenshot of the matching game created with the fish and octopus graphics
client work: game graphics, justin bieber avatar
My Animatic Entitled, “Caravan to Cairo”, on Vimeo
I invite you to click the link below, my animation called “Caravan to Cairo”. Based on an original story, I scanned my storyboard and timed it in Adobe AfterEffects and Premiere.
animatic for an original story, “Caravan to Cairo” from Mark Nicholas on Vimeo.
2d animation reel
Here’s a link to my 2d animation reel, which I completed for my Master’s Program at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.
2d animation reel for Mark K. Nicholas from Mark Nicholas on Vimeo.
animatic fun, a little animation I made from my storyboards, using Adobe After Effects
Click here–>> The Dog has to Go from Mark Nicholas on Vimeo.
dog character development
Character development- inspirational art for my puppy story
This drawing is another one of my favorites. For my story, The Dog Has to Go, I drew several inspirational sketches.
Once the characters were nailed down, I created a storyboard for my animation. By scanning the drawings and manipulating them in Adobe After Effects, I created an animatic. I invite you to watch it here.
scene from my dog storyboard
panel from my dog storyboard
panel from my dog storyboard
a piece of cake. . .
After way too long, my friend C and I finally caught up yesterday, over a drink. I don’t know where time has gone… and why it goes by so quickly! Having spent so much quality time together during school, talking art, animation and life, I really relished reconnecting with him. He’s an amazing artist and a great guy. The good feeling of that visit lingered for the rest of the night, and I found myself looking at pictures that I drew in school. C was right, looking at those old drawings reconnected me to the art student I was when I created them and I feel a renewed creative feeling, a motivation to sketch that I haven’t felt in a while.
Here’s a sequence of drawings that I did in graduate school as development work for a story I devised, one that became a storyboard for my final project. The characters I created are a family of mice who live in the walls of a supermarket. Getting a a piece of cake for a birthday party turns out to be an ordeal for them but I assure you, everything works out fine in the end!
Mouse Family Illustration
Mouse in Supermarket Illustration
Illustration of Mouse in Supermarket
