Character Model Sheet - Lip Sync

I am going to use this character for my lip sync animation, I wanted to focus on my animation skills within my showreel rather than my character design process with permission I will use this female character. I feel that she will work well with the quotes that I found. 

Monster Draw Over

Monster Character Design 2 Final Image

Monster 2 Fleshed Out

Monster 2 Development Sheet

I tried out three different designs for this character, I wanted a sea creature design but played around with the hair and feet because I felt that the body showed the feminine design well. I shall use the green and blue shades because I think they best represent the ocean and gives the character a sea hag appeal. If I had more time I would most likely change around the expression, I could not convey the vengeance look very well in this design, but I will try to sharped the eyebrows to make her look angrier in the fleshed out design. However I feel that it was the design that I liked the most and which suited her out of the three I had drawn at the top of the page.

Monster Design 2 - Outlined Thumbnails

Next I shall develop monster 1 (top left hand side) I believe this character best suits the characteristics that I created and shows the use of the triangle and circle shapes very well. I chose Wicked, vengeful and feminine as my character traits. 

Monster Character 2 - Thumbnail Block Colours

I tried a different approach when creating my second character design, I found that when designing a human form character that a lot of the shapes were lost if I designed them using one colour. So I added in a lighter shade to show the difference between the foreground and the background. I think that I shall develop the middle character on the bottom row because I feel that from the silhouette it best fits the characteristic that I am looking for.

Monster Character Reference 2

Reference sheet for my second character design.

Monster Character Design 1 Final Image

This is the final painted image for my character. I feel that thing designs best shows all of the three characteristics that I had chosen. I did a rough colour palette at the top of the page showing the block colours used to paint the monster. The only thing I am not happy with is the painted texture, if I had more time to develop the character I would have experimented with different brushes to get the fur style I wanted.

Monster 1 Fleshed Out

Character 1 development Sheet

Monster Design 1 - Outlined Thumbnails

Next I shall develop monster 14 (bottom row, 2nd from the right) I feel that he best suits the characteristics set for this character.

Monster Thumbnail Sheet - Block Characters

SHAPES USED CIRCLE AND SQUARE

My first character design silhouette thumbnails, I wanted to create a page of quickly drawn initial shapes onto paper to see what I could design from a silhouette. There are a few choices that I could make which could give me a good starting point. I think I shall develop the second one from the right on the last line (number 14) because I believe it best fits the character traits listed at the top.

Animatic 4

This is my finished animatic, however I still need to add in my zoom and fade in shots it create a more exciting animation. I will add these in using aftereffects.

Science Jack

Animatic 3

A cross fade has been added to the introduction.

Animatic 2

This version of my Animatic has changed slightly from my original upload, I have added in some zoom shots to make the piece more interesting rather than having the audience looking at a flat animation. Zooming in on the face and in the window of the house in the introduction gives further guidance to the audience so they know where to look and also where the story takes place. I am going to add a cross fade from the intro of the window to the boy standing in his room holding the potion bottle up in the air, just to make it seem like the camera is going through the window into the house. I feel like this will add a new dimension to an animation which has been time restricted to 20 seconds.

Final Scene Background - Finished

This is my finished scene for my animation, I have blurred out the background to make the characters seem more prominent. Overall I am happy with how it turned out, I will add in the boy once I upload this image into either Flash or After Effects. This drawing was difficult to do in Photoshop because I wanted to make sure that the room and the objects within it lined up properly, there was a problem with the shading but when the blur was added it seemed to fix the intensity of the shadow.

Final Scene Background - Parent Development 3

Final Scene Background - Parent Development 2