Snow White & Rose Red - F13 Final Project

For my Advanced Perspective final project.
A 1.5 month long project where we either make up a story or take a pre-existing story and re-imagine it.

I decided to combine the Grim stories of "Snow White" and "Snow White and Rose Red" and turn it into a period Korean drama.
Snow White - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White
Snow White & Rose Red -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow-White_and_Rose-Red

I really hope I can produce this as an actual Korean drama or a feature film someday.

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백설과장미

Snow White and Rose Red

Synopsis: 

At the palace, the Evil Queen has just risen from being a secondary concubine to queen when the first queen passed on. In order to maintain her status, she pushed for her son (the eldest son but illegitimate to the throne) to be the heir and placed the former queen's son (the real crown prince) under a curse as a fox. Two sisters Snow White and Rose Red were wandering the forest when they come across a 10ft fox. Despite the fears the legendary Gumiho, they befriend the fox.

Concept art:

Final concept board.

Final concept art also found here:
http://zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/art/The-Fox-Prince-420856603
http://zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/art/Mirror-Mirror-420858213

Preliminary board.

Character line-up in isometric

Official character line-up

Character bios:
Crown prince - age 20. King's 2nd son from former queen. Adventurous and naive.
Elder prince - age 22. King's 1st son and Evil Queen's son. Doesn't care for anything but his younger brother. Also a well-trained huntsman.
Snow White - age 18. Free-spirited, intuitive. Colors inspired by Disney's Snow White
Rose Red - age 20. Hard-headed, straightforward. Thinks in a logical way.
Evil Queen - age 40. Vicious, wants fame and power, has control over dark magic.
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200 composition thumbnails for concept art.

Final selections

Value studies.

Value studies.

Value studies. 

 Instagram photos of boards & WIP
(more WIP found at https://www.facebook.com/zhevickmeisterart)

via: http://instagram.com/p/hpd9vcq6Nr/

via - http://instagram.com/p/iAjSA3q6JA/

Yoo Jaesuk Character Design

For my Character Design class, in a 4 week project, we had to take a celebrity and make a cartoony caricature out of them. I decided to go with Korea's Nation MC Yoo Jaesuk.

deviantart: http://zhevickmeister.deviantart.com/art/Jaesuk-ssi-358867849
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=474054269316459&set=a.334002999988254.91601.321749534546934&type=1&theater
tumblr: http://zhevickmeister.tumblr.com/post/45092978539/jaesuk-ssi-by-zhevickmeister-for-my-character

Week 1:
basic caricature, facial studies.
make two final drawings in 1) a rounder fluid style. 2) a blocky stiff style.

practice sketches

rounder fluid style

blockier style

Week 2:

take your favorite drawing from the previous and make a character turn-around

i chose the fluid one

Week 3:

shape design.

manipulate your celebrity into various shapes by changing the proportions.

make 5 circle based, 5 triangle, 5 square, 5 combination.

circle based

square based

triangle based

i wasn't satisfied with the above so after emailing my teacher, he suggested to put them even more.

Week 4:
create a final design of your celebrity and color it.

after the in-class critique, i created these sketches

decided with this one

created line-art

final color

"Will" - Final Pitch Bible

In Fall 2012, I took a class called "Pre-Production Principles". In it, I learned how to take a simple idea and expand it into a full fledged story ready to be pitched to a production team. This is my story. All writings and photos were pulled from the blog my teacher ran during the class. All designs, artwork and concepts are by me. 

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Will

by Vickie Chau

In a gang-infested early 1900s San Francisco Chinatown, 
a lone warrior runs for her life as she sets out to save her family. 

2D short. 60 seconds long. 
PG-13 
Historical Action Drama

An-yu is chased by the North Beach Italian Lombardi mafia family. She reaches a dead end as the mafia gains in on her. With her parents held hostage, the mafia lures An-yu out from her hiding spot. Feeling determined, An-yu prepares herself for battle as she pulls her hairpin out and it extends into a fighting staff. She defeats the entire mafia on her own. She picks up her mother’s hairpin on the ground near the boss. Holding both her hairpin and her mother’s, they form a key that unlocks their family’s gold chest the mafia stole. She turns and discovers her parents are free, drops the chest and runs towards them in a deep embrace. The chest and hairpins fall to the ground, revealing “San Francisco Film Festival” formed in gold.

[Name:] 金安雨 (Jin An-yu "peaceful rain", surname means “gold”)
[Age:] 18
[Description:]
Precious and most loved only daughter trained to defend herself. Very loyal and filial to parents. Born on a rainy day, lives up to her name by bringing peace in times of chaos.
[Backstory:]
In the early 1900s of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the Jin family has gold saved up from the gold rush generations ago. In one small specially designed chest, there’s a rumored gold statue worth millions. That chest can only be opened with two specially designed keys. Those keys have been converted into hairpin decor worn by Madame Jin and An-yu. The keys are separated 1) to trick people that the keys are just hair decor and 2) precaution of theft.

An-yu grew up as an only child and her parents didn't mind having just a daughter despite the preference for sons. Due to being a female only child of Chinese descent, Papa Jin trained her in martial arts, specifically staff fighting because her hair pin can be extended into a staff for easy access and practicality. The Lombardi family, an Italian mafia from North Beach craves for gold and holds the Jin family hostage. An-yu manages to escape with her key and has been on the run for months, ever so often trying to get home in hopes to rescuing her parents. She goes from a wealthy Chinese heiress to a street rat in tattered clothes, messy hair and battle scars.

Leader
[Name:] Boss Lombardi
[Age:] 50
[Description:]
Very greedy, does whatever he can to get what he wants. Short and stubby, doesn't look like a mafia boss but definitely has the skills and the means to kill whoever gets in his way.

Minions
[Names:] (unknown)
[Age:] range 25-30
[Description:]
They all look the same. Listens to Boss no matter what. Somewhat scrawny, incompetent and untrained. Rarely knows or understands what they are doing.

Parents
[Name:] 金信 (Jin Xin “faith, trust”)

 金萬秀妍 (Jin Wan Xiu Yan “elegant”)

[Age:] 40-45
[Description:]
Loving yet strict. Takes pride in their only child.

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Props & backgrounds:

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Basic Storyboard Animatic:

Storyboards:

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This is Will.

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References:

Heads&Hands Sketchbook Challenge

For the Fall 2012 semester, I took a class called "Heads and Hands" where all drawings done in that class are portraits & hand drawings. Over the course of the class, our main homework was to fill up a sketchbook with 100 head drawings and 50 hand drawings from life (no photo refs). Red circles = teacher's written comments.

These drawings take roughly 2 - 20 mins long each. (which is why they dont look as amazing as my other digital portraits where i spend 3+ hrs on). Because i had two jobs during the semester, i cheated a bit with a few photo refs due to not being able to attend class workshops that provide models. (oh well~ ^__<)

materials used:
- standard ballpoint pen (papermate?)
- inky pen (Dr Grip gel pen)
- pitt graphite pure 2900 6b pencil
- standard mechanical pencil (hb lead pencil)