Jack Frost's Forest (1979 Redesign)

The final project for my Sketching for Environment class was to redesign a space from the 1979 Rankin & Bass Jack Frost stop motion animation. I got Jack Frost's Forest, which is where he first meets Elisa, his love interest and main motivation throughout the film.

The villain of the film, Kubla Krauss, is said by the very poor and unfortunate townspeople to own everything in the land; down to the last brick and tree. His army and servants are all mechanical, coal burning robots he's manufactured. With that in mind, I thought this forest could have been partially destroyed and Jack Frost takes it upon himself to transform it into a beautiful place for the townspeople and children to visit during the harshest, most miserable time of the year.

CDA Sketching for Environment Work

Recently finished a class up at the fabulous CDA once again called Sketching for Environment with Ed Li and Zane Yarbrough. We basically learned key concepts to keep in mind while drawing spaces and went to some awesome locations around Los Angeles to practice them. While simultaneously learning tons, a fairly equal amount of hair was also pulled, hahaha! If anything, it's wonderful to learn to what my weaknesses are and how I can improve on them.

Here are some compilations of the sketches done in that class: