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Welcome to my blog. I am a 2d animation professional so you will find that most if not all of the things posted here will revolve around tradtional and digital 2D animation. Hope you enjoy what you find here in Leo Ruby Designs, and thanks for visiting!


Cheinitra Cothran

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Declension





Here is a pinup that I did for my school's comic anthology called sequential fall out. The Pinup is titled Declension. The story for it is that a police specialized force unit were protecting the CDC while a group of scientist studied a mutated gene and tried to find ways to enhance it to make it able to be of positive use. They wanted the gene to produce super soldiers that allowed soldiers to not experience fear or pain. The gene beacame a virus and infected some of the scientist. They turned into the walking dead and began to attack the soldiers protecting them. To protect the rest of the world from exposure one man, Conner Roadheart, will have to protect and serve himself and the survivors of the CDC, if they are any!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Color Study




Here are two different versions of a picture that I drew and traditionally inked. The coloring however was digitally done in Photoshop.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Backgrounds pt.3




Another background that I inked and grey scaled traditionally. I used the Prisma French Grey Set. This was a concept for a under water city on an alien planet!

Backgrounds pt.2 (All Traditional)



Background design (top) grey scaled with Prisma French Grey (2pt persp). Thumbnails (middle) colored with Prisma Premier Manga Set. Split (bottom) are 1pt (left) and 3pt (right) perspective.

Backgrounds pt.1






Background designs inked and grey scaled traditionally. Grey scale was done with Prisma Color French Grey Set.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Ouch Cat



Here is a simple animation that I did in Adobe Flash Professional.

Walk Cycle




Here is a walk cycle that I did for a laid back type of character. Here I used the Kids Next Door style.

Boondocks Style




Here are some characters I submitted for the V103 campaign against bullying webcomic. I used the boondocks style for these characters. They are all also traditionally inked. My designs weren't chosen to be used, but I still think they're fun. Top: This character was given the title The Creep. He was the bully of the story who had sort of a Dr. Jekel Mr. Hyde thing going on. Middle: This was the character that stood by and watched the bullying go on for fear that if he did anything he himself would be bullied. His title was The Fly. Bottom: This character was the protagonist of the story. He is the young kid who is being bullied. The title given to him was The Mark.

KCA Characters




Here are some drawings of my characters from my original story known as Konen Camery Acadamey or KCA for short. Top left: Corey aka Rey. Top right: Nautico (protagonist)  on his 1st day of class. Middle left: (Order from left to right) Amore, Corey, Nautico, Unryu. Middle right:Student Council (behind couch) President: Corey, (standing right) Vice President: Unryu, (sitting on couch) Secretary: Ashton, (sitting on floor left to right) Treasurer: Amore, and Errand Runner: Sean.

Inked

Here are some characters that I traditionaly inked.

Backlash Characters pt.2




Here are more of the characters from the main ensamble. At the top is the protagonist. She was a part of the Shadow Runners going by the code name Ninja X. She is with her current boyfriend Dark Rein. The bottom are the sibilings Tory (left, younger) and Areon (right, older), who are also apart of the main ensamble of characters.

Backlash Characters pt.1







Here are some of my characters for an original story. At the top is a sketch of Dark Rein, a member of a mysterious group of assassins known as the Shadow Runners. The bottom left is another member of that society. His code name is Cure and he serves as a doctor. On the bottom right is a member of the main ensamble of characters. She is a young blind bandit known as Raven.

Lip Sync




A lip sync for my monkey king.

Sei Pencil Test





Cleaned up pencil test of my monkey king jumping.

Game Animations







Here is the character animation that I did for a Flash game!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tutorial

This is an "iron on patch" tutorial.

Business Card

Sketch Dump 2




Sketches that I came up with while trying to design a little girl who is cute vs deadly.

Maxx Blast Characters

Here are the some of the characters from my original story Maxx Blast. The top image is a girl named Delilah. She serves as a student at Roken Hill High, and is a close friend of the protagonist Maxseoul.  

This is Maxseoul's best friend and love interest Ji Kwon. He, like Delilah, attends Roken Hill High. He is extremely popular, athletic, and apathetic to Maxx. 

Maxseoul aka Maxx is the protagonist of the story. She also attends Roken Hill High, and works at a local cafe to help her family financialy. She is a tomboy and is currently living with her mom and 3 younger sisters, as the bread winner of the household. 

The four princes that govern the four countries of the major continent of Amerasia. Their names are (top from right to left)  Light, Night, Mello, (bottom) Astr. They are quadruplets brothers, and usually govern fairly.

Sketch Dump



These are some sketches that I did while trying to come up with a design for a anime- esque boy.

This is a design for a special military operative ultra light battle suite! It was to be worn by one of my orignal characters. The suite is called Solara, it was to be worn by the young heroine Maxseoul!

Colored Designs






These are a couple of character that I designed. They were digitally colored in Photoshop. The top image is my very own rendition of the Monky King. The bottom image are original characters that I designed.