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Magical Z:
Girls of the Zodiac

Creator & Founder of Milk Bread Studios

Creator 

Michelle Lo

Location

Toronto, Canada

Year

2022 - Ongoing

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Magical Z: Girls of the Zodiac is a personal passion project that surrounds magical girl themes and modern day topics.

This is an ongoing project with the direction of becoming a full series animation.
Everything developed on this project is created and directed by myself unless accredited otherwise.

LOOKBOOK DEVELOPMENT

I've developed a look book to provide my self with visual references and make project development updates. My Look Book is geared towards developing a pitch that can be taken to potential publishers, investors, etc... This is just a glimpse of the book's content as some information is not open to the public yet.

Look Book for Magical Z made in Google Slides

CHARACTERS

Magical Z is heavily inspired by retro magical girl animes such as Sailor Moon and Cardcaptors.

It was important to me that the character designs and style feel reminiscent of retro anime.

First pass designs of each magical girl

Final style direction for character designs

ANIMATIONS

Magical Z will be a classically hand-drawn animated series.

Head turn to test character design

RESEARCH

I spend quite a bit of time doing research and developing mood boards for my projects. They can range from developing over arching themes to specific style details.