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Finn Boguslavsky
Finn Boguslavsky is a Toronto-based digital artist specializing in character design, visual development, and character illustration. His lifelong passion for animation has heavily inspired his style of bold, loud, and over-the-top designs and illustrations that feel right at home in cartoons, video games, comics, and more. Finn’s work captures big emotions and dynamic movement through his use of exaggerated proportions and perspectives. Just as cartoons and games have helped him through life’s toughest moments, he now strives to carry out his mission of creating fun and exciting work that brings smiles to others’ faces.
The Costume
A motion comic about a horrifying eldritch creature who just wants to be loved. It creates a cat costume out of buttons and rags and sneaks into an animal shelter in hopes of getting adopted.
Misfit Magica
A visual development package for an animated series spoofing the “magical girl” genre. The series follows a delinquent young man who stumbles into receiving magical powers and is tasked with defeating the band of villains terrorizing the city. Against the wishes of his newfound magically-appointed fairy sidekick, he decides to join the bad guys instead. What follows is a story of found family, self-acceptance, and the struggles of not fitting in.
Escapism
Three pieces created from the prompt: “fantasy.” Each is a popular subgenre of fantasy: magical girl, dark fantasy, and sci-fi fantasy, while also representing one of the three essential shape languages in character design: circles, triangles, and squares. Just as we use fantasy and other fiction to escape from our reality, these characters are “escaping” the bounds of their world into ours.
Spaced Out
Character designs and backgrounds for an animated series called Spaced Out about a tired yet happy-go-lucky boy working his minimum wage job, travelling from planet to planet with his pet/coworker to clean up trash in the planet’s orbit. At each stop, they encounter residents of that planet and get roped into helping them with their problems.
Your Orisons May Be Recorded
Spot illustrations and book cover created for the short story “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny. The story follows an angel working at heaven’s call center answering prayers as she defects from her dead-end job for the sake of love and freedom and consequently gets kicked out of heaven.
