Artist Statement
Travelers of the Sun is a series of concept art and illustrations depicting a group of adventurers from all shapes and walks of life coming together to defeat the undead army that threatens to take over the world. The work is an epic high-fantasy set in medieval earth where magic, strange creatures, and adventure awaits. This is based on a Dungeons and Dragons game Kassandra played with her friends, wanting to bring the story to life for everyone to see.
Kassandra wants to explore different concepts and avenues of art as a Visual Development Artist. Her creative works consists of digital illustrations, concept art, and character design. Kassandra always loved watching cartoons as a child and that hasn’t changed. Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films, Disney, Pixar, fantasy films like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, and Japanese animations have been a large part of shaping her style and direction of story-telling. An important moment for her was when she first watched Finding Nemo, and how potent the story-telling was that brought her to tears before the opening credits.
The joy that brought Kassandra as a child as she watched the cast laugh, cry, work together, and succeed in their journeys have motivated her to want the same in her narrative. Through her art, she wants to present that joy and imagination to the viewers and continue to perpetuate that magic in an otherwise dull life. As a undergraduate, the experiences that she learned, the instances in her development in how she sees her craft going towards her goal of working in the cartoon and movie industry.
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