Ray Geiger was the lead character designer for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. As part of the art team, they designed Perfuma, Frosta, Entrapta, and many other minor characters. They also helped design Mermista, Hordak, Sea Hawk, Netossa, Spinnerella, and Scorpia.[1]
They worked on the series from February 2017 to April 2019, and took a more leading role starting in season 2.[2]
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- According to Ray Geiger, Entrapta is possibly one of the oldest women and main cast princess. Since they were the show character designer, they said "Entrapta is roughly [their age]." Ray was 29 at that time, making Entrapta possibly somewhere in the 25-30 age range.[3]
- Their favorite episodes of original '80s She-Ra are "My Friend, My Enemy," "Flowers For Hordak," and "Horde Prime Takes a Holiday."[4]
- According to a Keyframe Magazine article, Geiger "was tasked with developing poses for the characters and setting the style for how expressions are translated from boards to animation," and "scoured She-Ra re-runs to review the characters’ original expressions while also adapting them to new emotional heights."
"I’ve always been into pushed [or] 'ugly' expressions," [Ray Geiger] says. Though the production had to rein [them] in a little, Geiger was allowed to develop emotive expressions. For example, characters grimacing when doing something physically taxing. With a predominant cast of princesses, [they add], it allowed them "to show all types of women [going] through a wide emotional range and not be restricted to being pretty at all times."[5]
- When asked on Tumblr if there was an outfit that stuck out to them as most difficult to design, they replied: "The star siblings caused me a ton of anguish for a combination of reasons but mostly that I was sooo burnt out by that point and felt like I could not get them right. It took some brute force and bargaining and to get their respective lists checked off."[6]
- When asked, they said their favorite character is Entrapta, and added that "I also really love Hordak, Scorpia, and Perfuma. And Sea Hawk. And Frosta. And Bow. They're all great [to be honest]."[7]
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- ↑ https://raygeigrr.tumblr.com/post/178761037116/some-of-my-character-designs-finally-released
- ↑ http://www.raygeiger.pizza/resume.html
- ↑ https://catradora.tumblr.com/post/184575078738/hey-i-was-wondering-how-you-know-how-old-entrapta
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190611040000/https://nerdist.com/article/she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-creators-share-favorite-classic-episodes/
- ↑ https://keyframemagazine.org/2018/12/01/princesses-of-power/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200621055101/https://raegeii.tumblr.com/post/618934485880307713/1-is-there-an-outfit-design-that-sticks-out-to
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20181119070852/http://raegeii.tumblr.com:80/post/179773904141/oo-can-i-ask-who-your-favorite-character-is-and