Welcome to the portfolio website of Karen Wood; animator, storyboard artist and character designer.

 








Fanart of vigilante Ace, with Detective Moon, Detective Sun and Bounty Hunter Eclipse from Naffeclipse's fanfic Sleuth Jesters, based off of a Five Nights at Freddy's Daycare Attendant AU concept by Sunny-aesthetic

D&D Ibborium: Me and Mine

 

A moment from our Dungeons and Dragons campaign, Lex holding her fallen husband. Lex belongs to my DM Drake, Kieran belongs to my fellow player, Rae.

A Nice Day

 

"A Nice Day" a long overdue reunion between Lex and Pierce, daughter and father.  Drawn as a gift for my friend Drake, who the characters of Lex and Pierce belong to.

Ibborium D&D Campaign - Friends and Foes NPC Portraits


A series of portrait tokens for the D&D campaign I was in at the time.  Champion Matthieu, Oathbreaker Deucalion, and Necromancer Ryder are my DM Drake's characters, the final villain Theodred is my character.

Progress for Deucalion's Token:


D&Destiny - Destiny 2 Inspired Portraits and Story Moments

"James" portrait for my GM, Drake

"Liam" portrait for my fellow player, Gav

"Guardian Down" moment from our campaign, James sitting with his fallen mentor Matthieu.  James and Matthieu are my GM Drake's characters.


 "Hush" moment from our campaign, Matthieu after being restored still struggles with his injuries.

Ibborium D&D Campaign - Player Character Portraits


D&D Ibborium Campaign Player Character portraits: Shan, Temerity, Zeteram, Azar, Kell and Lhi.
Shan is my character in the campaign, the rest of the characters belonging to my fellow party members.

Fanart - Burn Bright and Beautiful, Vex


 

Burn Bright and Beautiful "Vex", Fanart of Critical Role 

Plus work progression:



Fanart - Burn Bright and Beautiful, Pike

Burn Bright and Beautiful "Pike," Fanart of Critical Role

Plus work progression
 

Fanart - Burn Bright and Beautiful, Keyleth

Burn Bright and Beautiful "Keyleth," Fanart of Critical Role


Plus work progression

Drawings - Caricatures and Cats




Drawings - Monochrome 1




Life Drawing - 3





Life Drawing - 2




Life Drawing - 1




Demo Reel





Demo Reel Shot by Shot Breakdown
 

North - Storyboard Pitch

 
North - Animatic from Karen Wood on Vimeo.

During my year at Bournemouth University I got to pitch a story idea for a group project. Unfortunately my story didn't get picked but I enjoyed storyboarding the idea and designing the characters for it and thought what the heck, I'll make it an animatic! Perhaps I'll try and finish it on my own, we'll see.

Music Credits:
"Mystic Force" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
"Spacial Harvest" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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CHOCOLATE Storyboard Animatic

CHOCOLATE - Storyboard Animatic from Karen Wood on Vimeo.


Story concept by Felix Benning

During my year at Bournemouth University I got the chance to do the storyboards for our group project. The story was an idea Felix pitched to the class, and after we got into groups and settled on it I worked off of his initial pitch into the storyboards that would later become our finished film "CHOCOLATE", which you can view here!

Originally this copy of the storyboards were done without sound, but I added some music tracks to give the boards some more personality.

Music Credits:
"Extreme Action" by bensound.com/royalty-free-music
"Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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