Last week I was lucky enough to attend a talk by the incredible Shane Prigmore, just down the street from my house at UC Berkeley. Shane talked about Character Design and Visual Storytelling, using tons of great examples and showing a lot of his work from films like Coraline, How to Train Your Dragon, and some stuff that hasn’t hit theaters quite yet. He left us with an assignment, which was to design Ebeneezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Dickens has some terrific character descriptions in his books, and Scrooge is no exception. Here’s my take that I pooped out in an hour:
