Darrion Dollesin Portfolio
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Table of Contents 1. Story Title
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2. Trianima
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3. Other Work
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4. Artist Statement
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5. Resume
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Summary: Finding you is a short story of two teen girls, Maya and Zoey, who come across an alien life form. The alien has come to Earth in order to find its friend who fell down to Earth a thousand years prior. Upon the alien’s request, Maya and Zoey go on an adventure to help find the alien’s friend.
Purpose: As it is being developed, the story and characters of Finding You, will be produced into a puzzle-based role playing game that I plan to publish upon completion. My goals for this game, it’s story, and it’s characters, is to make the audience really think about what it means to find themselves.
Tools and Process: The character designs and concepts start out as pencil sketches on a piece of paper or in my sketchbook. They are then redrawn using an Apple iMac - 21.5”, Wacom Cintique 13HD Tablet, and Adobe Photoshop CS6 and CC.
Starting Date: August 2015
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Status: Ongoing
Finding You
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Maya Conservative Guardian A bit of a passive-aggressive personality, Maya acts as sort of a guardian for the people she cares about. Maya is easily aggravated by misjudgment, yet is too timid to act against it. Hating herself for her timid personality, Maya seeks to preserve other people’s positive aspects for support.
Initial Sketches
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Character Turnaround
Artist Thoughts: Initially, Maya’s concept was very generic. I wasn’t sure what sort of character I wanted to create since my story concept had yet to be really developed. Working from the initial sketches, I ended up with a cold looking personality with an average and tomboyish looking design. This immediately sparked inspiration for my next character and how the story would be developed.
8-bit Sprite Sheet
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Zoey Curious Adventurer A very passionate and curious teenage girl, Zoey loves to learn and explore. She has an open mindset and is very carefree around other people. Despite her very energetic and outgoing personality, Zoey’s self-perception is low and she depends on the positive aspects of others for support.
Initial Sketches
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Character Turnaround
Artist Thoughts: When I first created Zoey, my first thoughts was that she needed to be very colorful with an positive, energetic, and outgoing appearance. I wanted her to seem like a polar opposite of Maya. Yet on the inside, she lacks a positive image of herself in order to emphasize the idea of “Don’t judge a book by its cover”.
8-bit Sprite Sheet
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Summary: Trianima takes place in a fantasy setting that follows the story of Adem and Lilith. Having opposing perspectives of themselves and their world, these adolescent teens must work together to protect their world from destruction using the powers that were passed onto them by the gods.
Purpose: As it is being developed, the story and characters of Trianima, will be produced into a graphic novel series that I plan to publish upon completion. What I plan to accomplish through this story and it’s characters, is to develop an open-minded perspective of the world, of other people, and especially of themselves.
Tools and Process: The character designs and concepts start out as pencil sketches on a piece of paper or in my sketchbook. They are then redrawn using an Apple iMac - 21.5�, Wacom Cintique 13HD Tablet, and Adobe Photoshop CS6 and CC.
Starting Date: August 2014
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Status: Ongoing
Trianima
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Adem Descendant of Behemoth Born in the province of Miltos, Adem has a deep compassion for the people around him. With his unique abilities to create and manipulate physical mass, Adem aims to protect the world that he loves.
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Lilith Descendant of Leviathan During her life of as a slave, Lilith learned to trust only herself. In order to preserve and take charge of her own life, she makes use of her ability to manipulate the physical properties of her and other’s body.
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Other Works Itzel and Blackfeather
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The story of Itzel and Blackfeather explores a fantastical setting where humans are able to form contracts with familiar spirits. The digital illustration below on the left is Princess Itzel and her familiar spirit, The Feathered Serpent. At the bottom right is Blackfeather riding on top of his familiar spirit, Raven.
• Adobe Photoshop CS6 • Wacom Cintique 13HD Tablet
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• Apple iMac - 21.5”
Adem Adem’s character profile is still being developed and therefore has received a visual update. In the image above, Adem is alongside one of the Trianima spirits who brought the physical world into existence, Behemoth. The image to the left displays Adem in my anime chibi style.
Tools • Adobe Photoshop CS6 • Wacom Cintique 13HD Tablet • Apple iMac - 21.5”
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Artist Statement Hello. My name is Darrion Dollesin and I am a character designer. My passion for character design, unknowingly, began at a very young age. As a child, I drew characters from various cartoons, anime, and video games, which inspired me to create my own characters and their stories. I focused on improving my drawing skills, and my characters remained as doodles in my sketchbook. For a long time I felt that my art was nothing more than a passionate hobby until my last years in high school. At that time, I went through difficult experiences that challenged my self-perception and the way I looked at life. Consequently, I have developed a perception of the world that is not just black and white. Every individual in this world is unique and is its own character. Each has their own history, culture, relationships, personality, perception of the world, and perception of themselves. These characteristics have an effect on the choices that a character makes and how they act upon another character’s choices. Therefore, the interaction between every character’s choices creates and builds a complex network that binds them all together. This perception of a world with a complex network of unique individuals is a big part that motivates and inspires me to create and design my own characters. I want to design characters that reflect my perception of the world. Thus, for every character I design, I like to explore and create characters that a wide range of individuals can relate to. In particular, I like to focus on the life challenges that my characters go through since everyone has their own struggles in life. Therefore, I like to create characters that are challenged by their own flaws and self-perception, by their relationships with others, and by their position in society.
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In order to create realistic and relatable characters based on their challenges in life, I like to explore every aspect and detail. Just as every choice can have an effect on others, every detail of a character will have some form of effect on the character’s choices. When gathering and creating these details, I use a spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to organize a profile of the character. I then explore and experiment with how these details affect the character’s appearance. This process first starts out as multiple pencil concept sketches. Then I take these concepts and explore further how they are digitally rendered using Adobe Photoshop. My style is influenced by anime, however no matter what style I choose to draw in, my goal in drawing my characters is to effectively reflect who the character is through facial expressions, posture, and movement. Currently my goals are to graduate from my Sierra College with an Associates Degree in Multimedia, Illustration, Graphic Design, and Studio Art, then transfer to a 4 year program that will help advance my skills as a character designer, an artist, and as a storyteller. My long term goals include a career in character design as well as publishing my own graphic novel.
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Resume Address: 1090 Sandringham Way, Roseville, CA, 95661 Email: dardollesin@comcast.net Phone: (916) 799 - 5742
Summary: Hello! My name is Darrion Dollesin and I design characters. The characters I design and illustrate showcase my innovative skills as a hardworking and highly detail oriented creator. I like to create very relatable characters who have flaws, relationship struggles, self-perception issues, and social mistreatment such as inequality and stereotyping.
Education: • AS Applied Art and Design: Illustration, Sierra College, Rocklin, CA, 2015 • AS Applied Art and Design: Multimedia, Sierra College, Rocklin, CA, 2015 • International Baccalaureate Program Diploma, Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, CA, July 2013 • High School Diploma, Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, CA, June 2013
Soft Skill:
Technical Skill:
Software Skill:
• Detail Oriented
• Character Design and
• Adobe Photoshop CC
• Self-Motivated
Development
• Adobe Illustrator CC
• Innovative
• Digital Illustration
• Adobe Flash CC
• Timely
• Quick Thumbnail
• Corel Painter 2015
• Team Player
Development and Full
• Creative Problem
Rendering
Solver
CC
• Front End Web Design
• Hardworking
and Development
• Organized
• Graphic Design and
• Strong Communicator
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• Adobe Dreamweaver
Development
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