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White images are storyboards/thumbnails (if there is a small image next to the line art) and finished layouts. Colored images are finished backgrounds.

Thanatopsis -

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Interior Establishing Pan
This was one of the first shots that I did to get a feel for the style.

1.2 Colored Lab

Interior Establishing Pan
This was one of the first shots that I did to get a feel for the style.

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Nomad of Nowhere - A selection of images from my work with Rooster Teeth

All images produced by me, Savanna Watson, are owned by Rooster Teeth.

Episode 1

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Final colored background.

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Original image was from earlier in the same episode, created by another background artist. I color adjusted and added to the image for the requirements of the scene and time of day.

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Episode 2

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UFC - Ultimate Fairy Boxing

UFC 3.01 and 3.03

Storyboards by Kat MacLennan. Thumbnail sketches created based off storyboard and final line art.

UFC 3.01 and 3.03

Final Colored Layout - Photoshop CC

UFC 2.04

Animated by Olivia Dolyniuk. This scene was a proof of concept animation for the character Psilo. The then got added into the production, swapping it out with a story-boarded scene. The background was then created from the extreme keys of the animation.

UFC 2.04

Final colored Background.

UFC 7.01

Storyboard by Robin Ator. This background was created to be another perspective of two backgrounds previously created by Kris Hilderbrand.

UFC 7.01

Final colored Background.

UFC 3.00

After discussing scenes with the crew and Director, it was decided that we needed to create an establishing shot. I took all the backgrounds made by Kris Hilderbrand and myself and created a establishing shot from them.

UFC 3.00

Finished colored background.

UFC 13.00

The short film ends on a still shot, which was drawn by Bryan Hitchen. I was later assigned to color the finished line art.

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R.A. - Robotic Assistance

RA 2.13

Storyboard Artist: Unknown. I decided to do an alley way that looked like an old shopping district, a part of town that once was maybe not a place you wanted to be caught at night.

RA 2.13

Finished colored Background. Originally I was going with a more red, warm color pallet but my director asked that we went blue to emphasize that this was in the shade.

RA 5.03

Storyboard Artist: Unknown. Thumbnail sketches created based off storyboard and final line art.

RA 5.03

Finished colored Background.

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Misc.

Small Town - Longshot

Longshot of a small backwoods town. Layout was blocked out in Maya after creating a birds eye view, where I then created a sketch and finalized line-art.

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Longshot of a small backwoods town. Layout was blocked out in Maya after creating a birds eye view, where I then created a sketch and finalized line-art.

Truck Stop Bathroom - LineArt

Reference: Rick and Morty.
I drew a birds eye view of the restroom before blocking it out in Maya. I then created a sketch on top of that and completed the final line art.

Truck Stop Bathroom - Color

The final colors for this background where sampled from King Jellybean episode of Rick and Morty.

Hill-top Mansion LineArt

Style referencing Eyvind Earle. Created traditionally with pencil.

Hill-top Manison Color

Style referencing Eyvind Earle. Colored in a flat style, digitally.

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Original image was from earlier in the same episode, created by another background artist. I color adjusted and added to the image for the requirements of the scene and time of day.