The Grio:
Juneteenth: Celebrating
of Black Excellence

James Hemings

Working with the Californian Post production company
PostScript Creative, I designed, fully illustrated, and then animated scenes to be incorporated into The Grio's "Juneteenth: Celebrating Centuries of Black Excellence," per PostScript's direction. The brief's direction was for the illustrations to be inspired by QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A Bridgerton Story and with a short turnaround time. 

Below are the character design concepts, Styleframes, final background illustration and explorations, animatic, and some of my favorite assets from the piece. All designs had to have some historical accuracy. Sc-1 was adapted from Jefferson's Monticello home, while Sc-2 depicts a stylized look into the Monticello kitchen where Hemings worked.

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