Inspector Cassalis

A lead character for a podcast's animated trailer. Four angles, six expressions, and one rule: he never fully closes his mouth.

All Every head on file Character design August 2026
The sitting
Client
Cold Bayou Podcast
Use
Animated trailer, lead character
Medium
Ink and digital color
Deliverables
Turnaround, expression sheet, rules
Delivered
April 2026

Character work is caricature with the subject taken away. You invent the face and then have to draw it again from any angle, which is much harder than it sounds. I built him off a real jawline I had drawn years earlier at a market, turned him around, sheeted the expressions and wrote the rules down for the animator. He never fully closes his mouth. That was the note that made him work.