The Oval Portrait
Back in 2010, a group of friends wanted to make an animation about the horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe "The Oval Portrait". After reading this short story we found it had a great potiential to be adapted into a short film. My work was to draw some scenes and concept arts that will help to establish the film look. A very pronounced gothic style using german expressionism was decided. Sadly due to lack of time this project was never achieved. Here are some the scenes and designs that I made for it.
The drawing at the base of the project. The painter and his painting (originaly not oval)
The Oval Portrait Concept
Some rough sketches and concepts (character / scenes / environments)
The Painter turning mad
Architectural studies / concept for the house of the painter. Highly inspired by German Expressionism and Murnau's work like Caligari
Another Architectural concept for the house of the painter. Again highly inspired by German Expressionism and Murnau's work