Toil and Trouble Costume Designs

By Brigette Barrager2014-2018Medium: Marker, Pencil, Photoshop Toil and Trouble Costume Designs Looking back on this project stings a little because it was never produced, but it should have been.  Toil and Trouble was going to be an original story about a young witch discovering her own power, infused with all the fun (and costume changes!) […]

Tangled Rapunzel Costume Designs

By Brigette Barrager2014-2018Medium: Marker, Pencil, Photoshop Tangled Rapunzel Costume Designs I love designing costumes, so when I was approached by Disney Television Animation to do some costume designs for Tangled the Series, I only remember thinking “duh! Of course!”  I was already familiar with the show and its three season story arc after having worked […]

Tangled Cassandra Concepts

By Brigette Barrager2014-2018Medium: Photoshop Tangled Cassandra Character Concepts In 2014, Disney Television Animation contacted me to do some freelance character designs for Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure. I had the pleasure of working with master character designers (and producers) Shane Prigmore and Ben Balestreri on these projects. What a tremendous compliment to be asked to assist!  When […]

Little Ellen Episode Segment

By Brigette Barrager2021Medium: Photoshop Little Ellen Episode Segment I was on this for only a few weeks, but it was so fun. I hadn’t painted a proper background or drawn so many animals for quite a while!  In the episode Ellen is going camping for the first time, and she has a very definite, very […]

Little Ellen

By Brigette Barrager2019Medium: Pencil and Photoshop Little Ellen The producers of Little Ellen approached me to do some preliminary character designs for the Little Ellen series, to be based on the childhood adventures of Ellen Degeneres. Previous to this assignment, I didn’t really think I had a character design “niche,” but I think it’s safe […]

Gravity Falls

By Brigette Barrager2009Medium: Marker and Pencil Gravity Falls I wouldn’t claim a character design credit on Gravity Falls, but I did get to sketch these very first versions of a few of the main characters: Dipper, Mabel, Grunkle Stan and Wendy.  Alex Hirsch was my classmate and friend from CalArts, and he was working on […]

Alice’s Wonderland Bakery

By Brigette Barrager2019Medium: Pencil and Photoshop Alice’s Wonderland Bakery This wonderful, whimsical character design assignment arrived in my inbox like a Cheshire cat materializing in a tumtum tree.   The direction was to redesign Alice from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland aimed at a preschool audience. In this version, she would be a baker, cooking up magical […]