Mary Miranda Melissa McGurk
There’s a space advertised on AWN for a 2D trad. animator for a collection of children’s poems. Simplistic/alternative styles desired. So I’ve played around with one of the example poems, Mary Miranda Melissa McGurk - the tale of a girl whose obsession with knowledge leads to her own demise - to gauge some character designs for me to work from for the examples, then the simple style ideas.
| McGurk III |
ABOVE: some post initial sketches of the main character, McGurk. The bottom left corner shows the draft character I went from. Top centre was an idea for the opening I had, where the main character, as a stick person, steps out of a book with flipping pages. Centre is McGurk studying, her head size increasing, then bottom right was where the simple style started to come in, with McGurk’s head fully inflated.
| McGurk I |
ABOVE: Some more thoughts, this time with felt tip pen and scrap book paper, which is lively and fun to draw on! The simple style is starting to come through a little more.
| McGurk II |
ABOVE: Thoughts for a later scene, where McGurk’s head is simply swelling with useless facts.
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PS. As always, all work submitted here is owned by me, myself and I, and no one may reproduce this without my express permission.
Mary Miranda Melissa McGurk is owned by Shel Silverstein and Edward Gorey.

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