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Pre-Production Design - Coming up with ideas for new locations and characters, keeping things sketchy and loose and sowing the first seeds of an episode - Pre-production for me is the stage where I feel most creative! Above are my favorite sketches and thumbs across 3 seasons of The Strange Chores

Character Design - Design options, model sheets. mouth charts and expression exploration - getting a character ready, whether it's the main hero or for a single scene can involve so many steps! Figuring out who the character is and how best to put that personality across is perhaps the thing I enjoy the most. In this mix are turnarounds and sheets from both my professional and personal projects

Background design - Designing backgrounds for animation is never what meets the eye. Layers are separated so characters can move behind shelves, doors etc, lighting changes have to be considered that reflect the time of day - setting up the correct layer structure and making it appear seamless to the viewer is key! Here is a small selection of some of the backgrounds I worked on during my time on The Strange Chores

Episode Direction

12 field | Ludo | Media World

Charlie takes a three-headed monster dog to school for pet day, but his unwillingness to enforce the rules sees it grow bigger and more dangerous.

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Episode Direction

12 field | Ludo | Media World

A quest to return an overdue Spellbook takes the gang deep inside the local library (Charlie's least favourite place) but the book does not want to be returned.

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During my 6.5 years on The Strange Chores, I have been very lucky to have had a variety of roles. I've worked as Design Lead, Animator, Background Designer and Pre-production artist. I then took on the role of Head of Design and Episode Director. It is a show dear to my heart! I had the opportunity to work with an amazing and incredibly talented crew and our wonderful director Scott Vanden Bosch

I was given the amazing opportunity to direct a couple of episodes in the series. Both eps involved two of my favourite things in the world - dogs and books! For those in Australia, you should be able to view these episodes above on iview. For those outside, you might have an option to sign up to view it on the app

This website is built in collaboration with my husband & wizard Satyam Agarwala