Skülly Sports
Animation
A visual exploration in the movement of Skülly with Latham
For those of you who haven’t yet met him, Skullboy is Kirk’s imaginary (but very real) creative partner created in collaboration with brand / identity designer Richie Stewart.
Skully started as a mark / logo for the illustration studio (Kirk in his basement) and represents the balance in everything, from the balance of organization and chaos, to life and death, happiness and sadness, stress and calmness, etc. The studio is based heavily on duality, knowing no one direction is ever the best, but exploring everything results in the appropriate execution.
ANIMATION
Latham Arnott
SOUND
Jeff Guerra
Expanding the Character
The reason I’m mentioning all of this is because I want this share my thoughts on the wonderful benefits of a good character design. Skully was born from Richie’s talents and ability to extract my thoughts, personality, and ideas into a simple one color mark and grew into a full bodied character with a spirit, voice, and personality with additions from myself and others.
From Richie's strikingly simple and unique design, I wanted to create my own fully illustrated version to be used around the site as a mascot. These sport images and animation later were an exercise and character study in furthering skullboy as a spirit.
