Dominic Estephane

@domestephane.bsky.social

Available for work! Art Director | 2D Animator | Game Dev Prev - NaturalMotion/Take-Two #animation #characterdesign #tokusatsu and other nerd bits https://domestephane.carbonmade.com/

Everyone is (rightly) clowning on the Book of Life guy for getting in bed with the AI crowd, but there's a danger that the dopamine hit of outrage overwhelms good news. Like, I've seen dozens of posts about Gutierrez and only one or two about this. We need to be as loud about the good as the bad.

'Iron Boy' Wins Cannes Prize In Major Year For Animation

Animated features and shorts were omnipresent across the Croisette this year, but only two animated titles left Cannes with awards recognition.

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Having loads of fun with this sculpting thing! I didn't quite get the planes I wanted on the helmet, nor did I keep an eye on the proportions to better match my concept BUT it's the lessons you learn along the way. Either way it'll work for reference

Count Dregon - I referenced Vega/M.Bison from the Street II movie + Dr. Doom while drawing him up Lore: Edenoi is known for it's technological advances and automatons, Dregon abused this to create a suit to challenge his Father in combat/Civil war to hand over the Masked Rider powers

Count Dregon of Masked Rider, character design - renderedCount Dregon of Masked Rider, character design - line artCount Dregon and Masked Rider, character design - flat colours

Having loads of fun with this sculpting thing! I didn't quite get the planes I wanted on the helmet, nor did I keep an eye on the proportions to better match my concept BUT it's the lessons you learn along the way. Either way it'll work for reference

A snack attack Jack! Wanted to do a little chibi-esq design pass on the TMNT (with a heavy pour of Toriyama). I really liked how these turned out, might make a short with em! 🍕 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢

A line of the TMNT in a dr slump-esq chibi style Splinter and April from TMNT in a chibi-esq styleRocksteady and Bebop from TMNT in a chibi-esq style

Prince Dex with updated hair. I've also drawn Ferbus now, right? That counts 😅 I also don't need this amount of detail on helmetless Dex for what I have planned for my animation but it makes for good practice

Prince Dex, the Masked Rider character sheetPrince Dex, the Masked Rider character sheet with Ferbus scribblePrince Dex, the Masked Rider character sheet
Full body, front bust, profile bust