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Guess what weeee got to design for character design class! (and then, since it's film season, no one showed up)It's sort of cheating to use designs I was already pretty solid on, so I used this opportunity to think up a bunch of graphic looks . . . . AND ways to present it to a fairly conservative teacher who was looking for contrast in appearance over anything else.
Hence I may have to warn Jekyll and Hyde fans that this is a rather exaggerated version of Hyde. 8| Since the usual image of Hyde is really hulking and huge and powerful, I was working to "sell" Hyde as a small, skinny character that somehow has just as much impact. The contrast is not line-shaped-figure (Jekyll) to circle-shaped figure (Hyde)--it's smooth curves to scruffy scribbles and jagged lines.
I keep rethinking what kind of addiction Hyde's formula is akin to. I really don't like "updating" the story by having Jekyll inject himself with the formula. The charming inaccuracy of drinking it sells it as a cultural icon, a good ol' scientific romance, and also suggests alcohol as its closest relation. Hence: Hyde is not some supernatural evil brought about with Evil Technology but a result of everyday vice that anyone can relate to.
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If Jekyll and Hyde fans think that Hyde is a hulking brute, then they have never read the original book. Your version is the most in-line with the original version that I have seen so far.
So, Bravo!~
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I remember first seeing this , I felt in love and I asked myself ''What's this'' And now a year later I'm going to be in my Highschool's Jekyll and Hyde play , I'm being Hyde
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May I use the second picture below the first one on the left side for a pose for my oc?
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I don't know if you even read these, especially on content this old, but your work inspired me to finally hunker down and start reading the novel, and I just wanted to stop by and point out that your smaller Hyde (as I'm sure you knew when you started)is much more accurate to the source material than any hulking monster Hyde. I really appreciate this, and just wanted to give y enthusiastic approval! I miiiiiight also be planning to put up my own drawings featuring your Jekyll and Hyde, but I'll be sure to credit you. :3
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I was wondering, is the top-right image a reference to Hyde's distaste for injury and mortality (well, his own anyways), or had you not established that part of his character at this point?
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nonsense. There's no such thing as too much jekyll and hyde. *eye twitch*
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I love the bottom two drawings. They work best as a pair.
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I can definitely see some Coraline in these, especially the second one down on the left. Love the saturated color schemes, too.
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This Is the EPIC AWSOME DRAW EVER! I love your Work you are my fav artist of Jekyll and hyde for ever. I got a question is rachel is a oc or not plz let me know
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She is! She was kind of my own take on the (also technically "OC") character Mary Reilly from the book and movie Mary Reilly.
A lot of my characters come from watching kind-of-okay movies and going, "Hmm, if I were writing this, I would do it THIS way instead...."
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I like the concept of your Hyde, I don't like the exagreration of other Hydes because i don't like muscular figures alot for my characters. I make my Hyde sort of like yours, scarny and agile looking but very evil as well.
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He's gotta be evil or else he ain't Hyde, am I right?
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why is Hyde saying 26 Fe 55?........(also the look on his face kills me XD)
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It's the chemical symbol for iron, it's what the blood tastes like to him : D
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that makes since...cause your blood has iron in it. and just a little fwi on my character Phantom he has the symbol for FE2 on his hat....and i think it's iron or some other metal but it was a component of steel and Phantom's last name is Steel.
i like the face Hyde's making in the picture...he looks confused a little bit.
(Hyde rocks the blonde hair!)
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i like the one at the bottom with Hyde....he looks curious.
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I love this! You have such an intresting style!
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I have to say that I love this. A lot. I think your version of Hyde is excellent, and that it's actually the most accurate one I've ever seen. In the novella Hyde is described as being smaller than Jekyll, and though he has no obvious physical disfigurements or ugliness, he has an "air of deformity" that makes everyone despise him just by looking at him. I love all the contrasting colours and shapes here too, and the scratchy, scraggly, dripping paint look.
I think my favourite panels are the two at the bottom, the red and green squares with one profile and the other's face sketched into a shape, and Hyde with the bandaged arm talking about iron.
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Wow, I think this is the biggest compliment on any of my works I've gotten in a while!! what you said is absolutely what I was going for in my adaptation of Hyde T_T thanks so much!
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You are very much welcome. c: Your art inspires me.
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This is beyond beautifully amazingly fantastic innovative clever original ... did i say fantastic?
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X3 These are so awesome! I really like the bottom two.
Also, HOLY.FUCKING.SHIT.
YOU'VE READ VAMPIRE LOVES?
YOU....
YOUUUUU ARE THE ONLY OTHER PERSON WHO I'VE MET WHO HAS READ THAT.
I LOVE YOU.
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All of these have so much style, i love the colors and the flats with scribbly lines. The shadow ones are a really cool way to illustrate their being together at the same momnt, and their interaction.
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GHUUUUUUUUUUH, WHAT DID YOU DO TO GET SO TALENTED, SABRINA?
IT'S NOT FAIR.
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IT IS FAIR..... if you saw the assignments I did from this internship D: They look like they were done by a not-so-talented person.
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Then show me then >8I
Lol, it's OK.
It's mostly because...well you already KNEW so much before you came to Calarts.
I mean, I saw the photoshop animations you did long before calarts...jeebus cripes those were good.
I just keep looking over the one with the woman walking from behind and going O________O
Did you rotoscope that thing or did you just know how to animate that?
And you already seem to have a pretty good in depth knowledge of flash, not to mention not to mention you can actually PAINT.
You did this when you were FOURTEEN: [link]
And that's way better than I can digitally paint now 8(
So now, I'm pretty much just trying to catch up. XD
I guess the confident I feel about my art and animation skill, I feel far less nervous about Calarts.
Haha, sorry to spam you with this long comment...
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Agh! Old paintings DX Old paintiiiings. I assure you, you can paint better than THAT old drawing.
I attribute most of the skills I brought in when I came to Calarts to either:
1. Figure drawing/painting
which I took once a week at a local art center for a good few years..... you'll get PLENTY of figure drawing at Calarts though (it was a slight disadvantage on my part that I was bored stiff of figure drawing by the time I got here).
2. self-taught stuff that I mostly got from the Internet
I did a lot of looking at people's stuff and trying to learn from them..... which then is ANOTHER thing you get from Calarts, probably the best thing--you are exposed a lot to other people's work and you can learn from them. ....my pre-Calarts animation training was primarily gained from watching Ouran Host Club, I'm pretty sure. And guesswork.
(Also I'm not sure which little animation you're referring to? 
Don't worry about your skills! You are very talented and I don't think you should have anything to worry about in that department.
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WE'LL HAVE TO SEE ABOUT THAT B|
1. Haha! SO did I! I actually signed up for my first outside of school art classes shortly after my very first tour of Calarts.
I was instructed by a guy named Sheldon Borenstein and I studied with him once or twice a week at his art academy literally only a couple mins from my home. [link] [link]
He even had a class specifically geared towards creating a portfolio!
I don't think I ever would have gotten into Calarts without his tutilage. T^T
He and I were buds, but after I got my acceptance letter my parents thought it would be a good time to stop. T___T
Plus, we'd save a bunch of money that could be used towards tuition.
But I have been meaning to visit him and I definitely plan to do so when I get home!
Although I really didn't do much painting until about summer of last year.
I haven't done much painting outside of some simple water colors since I left his portfolio class :<
2. THIS ONE: [link]
Around 1min in.
Was this like a school assignment or did you just do it for the lulz.
Like that little thing right there was better than like 70% of all the Calarts films I saw at the student screening.
I think you already mentioned you put it together in ToonBoom, which is awesome since we used that in my animation class
Lol, I'm always trying to be like a sponge when it comes to animation. When I see a piece of animation or expressions or pose I like. I play it over and over and just stare at it like
And I just hope some of it sticks when I actually have to animate it.
See, I know a lot about animation and it's basics. But I feel my knowledge far outweighs my overall skill, know what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah. I know. I guess I'm just nervous that a the other first years around me are gonna be like 100X better than me and gonna feel all inferior like whoah.
Or that 'm gonna be uber stressed by the workload and can't handle it.
Lol, and then there's the hopefully totally irrational fear that I wont run into any crazy animation or film kids and be super awkward.
And my paranoid fears of being raped or drugged or worse.
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OH that walk cycle 8D
That was essentially the result of my hating a previous walk cycle I'd done and wanting to do a much better job of it.
I actually am not entirely sure why I made Yattsuke Shigoto D: I think I just wanted to try something else after I did the Ashita opening. It was fun, and I'm still fairly fond of it.
I think if you feel you've accumulated a lot of knowledge, the thing to do is to try to animate and see if that knowledge translates, and if it doesn't, just study and practice more, ne. again there's plenty of opportunity to do that in your classes.
I don't suppose it's any help trying to convince you that the other first years won't be 100x better than you if you're determined to think so XD but if you can manage it, don't worry....
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HNNNNNG, GON' DO SO MUCH ANIMATING WHEN I GET HOME, YESSIR.
I actually did a lot of little key-frame doodles on my sketchpad this morning whilst watching this animation [link] and Princess and the Frog with my little cousin this morning XD
And me and her got some sticky note pags and are gonna do some flipbooks together!
(she wants to be an artist like her "cousin Katie" too X3 You'll prolly meet her on Saturday!)
I think a better way to describe it is that you've already had a lot of pre-practice with animation and already know your way around most the normal beginner bumps.
Yes, but I don't want to convince myself to think that way!
I know they wouldn't have even accepted me if they didn't think I was worthy enough of their program or didn't think I could handle it.
But I guess I don't want to be a cocky jerk who thinks they're better than everyone either!
I guess I have this subconcious urge to prove I'm just as good or better than most people since I needed extra help learning and was considered "slow" in elementary school -__-
But I just keep telling myself most first years are prolly in the same boat as me, in terms of animation experience and nervousness!
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Lol, I totally have a subconscious--um, actually, pretty straight up conscious--urge to prove I'm better..... I tend to keep mental notes on other people's work and who gets good crits in class and whatnot.... I figure it's helpful in that I'm more likely to be aware if there's someone who's doing something cool so that I can learn from them. In particular I find it useful to look at previous student films in terms of technique or whatnot.....
I'm sure there are plenty of first-years just as nervous as you, ne. I certainly wouldn't get nervous about being number one as soon as you get there, since Calarts like any other college will ease you into the schedule and the workload. (Plus there's always a small group of people who flagrantly don't do the homework and fall behind from lack of effort, which at least gives one the security that no matter what, at least you're doing the damn homework.)
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Same here!
I do all that, student films, taking arduous mental notes... I guess it qualifies as a straight up urge now!
I noticed most films chosen for the producer's show, or ones that even get noticed, normally have a good, compelling story and characters and good animation skills and good visuals.
(yours had all three, lol)
Don't worry, I plan to put as much effort as I can into my work!
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I think everyone has their own ideas of what exactly are the qualifying factors for the Producer's Show, but good storytelling is definitely a big one.... and I'd say after that, having a finished look is very important (mostly due to our competition from schools like Gobelins, who always have extra finished looking films) especially if, like last year, there were a lot of good films in competition.
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I love everything about this. I envy your cartoony skillz and how you draw them! 8O Espcially Jekyll! 
Much luv for Jekyll + Hyde!
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Ah, I LOVE you're work! There just isn't enough J+H love here.
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Oh my gosh,words cant describe how awesome the last two pictures are.The lighting is just perfect,and your style of drawing just makes it all the better as well.
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I really like how you draw them.It's very simmilar to their descriptions of what I've read in the adapation that I just finished.
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What was Mackey's response?
I like them. I REALLY like the one of Hyde turning his head sideways. Though I do think Jekyll's pose is strangely confident/sassy in the bottom right.
I saw in the comment above you guys talking about League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Jekyll and Hyde. Have you read the 2nd volume? I thought the reasoning why Hyde was so big in the comic was actually pretty interesting.
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He liked them! Possibly influenced by the fact that the third-years didn't show up and only Marcos did that particular assignment as well.
Yeah I'm still not happy about Jekyll's design D:
Yeah, the reasoning for Hyde in LXG (the comic, anyhow) is actually totally canon. IT's just that the explanation for big!Hyde generally isn't, and it looks too The Hulk for me. Aesthetically I prefer Hyde looking like a starved, rabid terrier.
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8C Well, in the original story, Hyde was smaller and more animalistic-lookin', and not huge and hulking and nasty. Your design totally lines up to that, it's awesome!
XD; I love your Jekyll an' Hyde stuff so much.
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I know, right? But J+H, along with Frankenstein, are stories that are sooo affected by their Hollywood adaptations that people automatically look to film precedents before the original story. Lame.
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<8( Yeah. It's tragic, in a way. The original idea often gets lost behind its Hollywood 'counterpart'.. most of the folks I've babbled to about Jekyll an' Hyde are oft surprised about the fact that these Hydes of Hollywood are terribly off. x(; Oh dude I was so disappointed when I saw League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.. *goes off in a babbling rant about that movie, and others..*
.. 8C *siiigh*
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for remaining true to the story. I look forward to more of these wonderful arts. <3
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OH LXG...! You and your silly big pink Hyde. (I was so surprised that that movie made money! To think that crazy awkward adaptation did well while Watchmen, a much fancier and cooler movie, is struggling still....). Have you read the comic? I am perpetually amused and angry at it.
Ummmm have you seen the 1930s Marche version of J+H?? It deviates in a Hollywood style but omg Hyde is BADASS. He jumps over two balconies. Jekyll is such a jerk too....
If you're interested, J+H is my favorite story ever and I plan to do my 3rd year film based around it
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