Marlo The Magician

This animation sequence was drawn, coloured and animated in Flash.

Thumbnail sketches I drew of Marlo doing magic.

My original character design for Marlo.

Expression sheet I drew using my original character design for Marlo.

Marlo doing a card trick.

Marlo looking at an old poster featuring his younger self and his sidekick 'Merit the Ferret' who he used to perform with.

Marlo uses magic for mundane tasks, such as changing his shoes into slippers and filling up his cup with tea.

Marlo uses magic for mundane tasks, but when uses magic to tie his bow tie, his long beard gets caught up in it.

I worked on this character-driven project during my second year (2011) on the BA(Hons) Animation course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. I directed the short 2D animation called Marlo The Magician after creating the idea, character and story. After my initial brainstorming and character design, the project team was formed and further character design and story development took place.This is a screen capture of an interactive Flash website I made for the project.

Software used: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Flash.

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