It was super cool to see what the finished effects for Charizard looked like. His animations were so good!
This was the final of 4 charizard designs I did on Detective Pikachu. I was super proud of how this one came out. I tried very hard to match the look of 3D sculpt concept art with my 2D skills.
This was one that never got finished, my 3rd attempt. This was my attempt to really bring the character to the real world for my specific tastes.
This was during a period when we were trying to trace over the Ken Sugimori art to stay more true to the original proportions.
This was the very first thing I did on the movie. A lot more naturalistic than the direction we ended up at. I think the final effects knocked it out of the park.