Saturday 10 December 2011

Jamila's Props and Layout Elements





Rough character rotations

Fern's rotation is still a working model.. I'm sure some of you can figure out the different views of the face than I can, and also we can streamline her body a bit more and simplify her as she is a bit "anatomical". if you have any problems with a certain thing please draw up something as a suggestion :)


Thursday 1 December 2011

fern version 2





hey guys, heres my attempts at a more independent, sturdy, strong shop owner. shes not that rotatable :s i was just trying to play around with her character type i guess? i'll do some more for sure, and they will be better, and in a style that is more appropriate for our film.

Monday 28 November 2011

Some Prop Attempts

Fern Colouring Exploration


Dunno; something to reinforce what was already established.

Fern exploration

ughh tried drawing her in a flatter, wonkier style but its SOOOOO HARDDD FOR MEEEEEE
=__= hence why these aren't very good poses, i'm just trying to understand how to draw her still i guess.

Blargh

Can't seem to get her right... bah. animation time

layout guildline

Boards and test poses




Some test sketches of Fern, just trying to get her character, and coloured her here with her hair like a strawberry lol, and with transparent vs not transparent apron... but yeah, sorry Tanya, the boards are up. :)

Saturday 26 November 2011

Character Posing and Props





made Fern super tall :s and the first page is just warm up sketches, figuring out how to draw her. thought i would post it in case it could help anyone else draw her. I also painted the fruits and veggies in different styles just to see what direction you guys would like to go in with them.

character variations

Thursday 24 November 2011

style proposal

not the most successful....but i tried :s again i apologize for not having it at the meeting.

Style Proposal Encore

I was trying to go for as stylised as one could go for this one, because our film definitely needs some pizazz. The drawback though, is that it was really hard to do because I never draw in this style.... but it's actually very simple, now. Inspired by Ratatouille, the Coraline Lecture and a little bit of the Warner Bros colouring style.


The background is a touch busy, but I think with our plainly coloured animations, it gives it more interest. As I've noticed some of the films they screen on the second floor have that problem of bland bg, and bland character and totally looking boring.

Wasn't sure how the colour should be so I've got a few slightly different versions


This last one I added a more romantic that DQ showed us last time.

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Style Proposal 2

I was inspired more by Warner Brothers this time around. This took around 3 hours to do. I used a construction paper texture to cater to Seema's cut-out styled character design.

Some Notes:

Cast shadows will be used to save composition and does not need to be technically perfect. I figured nobody wants to spend the time to calculate how every shadow works so this would help a lot to save time.

I went nuts on perspective, but I opted to at least keep the sense of space which Maurice Noble has done for his backgrounds.

I've seen Noble use gradients too, but for this time I didn't use them and tried for a flatter style.

Fern and Brimley Shape Design



I thought i would try to boil the characters down to the main shapes that make them up to help us simplify the designs and learn how to draw them with the correct proportions. (well to some degree b/c these aren't THAT accurate!) I saw some work like this in the incredibles book a few weeks back and was dying to try it :)


Monday 21 November 2011

Chuck Jones Squirrel Film

Hey Guys,

I found that film we were talking about in meeting on Thursday. It's got some neat layouts and colour ideas, especially at the beginning.

Sunday 20 November 2011

Names to Check out for Style Inspiration

Maurice Noble
Warner Bros.
Bugs Bunny - Witch Hazel
Early Pink Panther Fritz Frieleng
Disney’s sleeping beauty
Walt Stanchfield - drawing for animation
UPA

Saturday 19 November 2011

Proposals


Everyone's seen these in the meeting but here they are! (btw the second one is completely unfinished but i'll put it up anyways)

Thursday 17 November 2011

Tuesday 15 November 2011

The Other Side...


of the store!

Style Proposal

shot where Fern sees the spider web
yeahhh its over rendered >.< and (Fern is scary looking) but hopefully we can stylize everything more and simplify more and more as we go along with these!
(also might have come out too dark, my cintiq doesn't quite match up with my mac screen =_=)

Monday 14 November 2011

Boards 1-4

Some notes:
-Exterior is not close to final design but I didn't think I would be able to get something substantial done in time while juggling with other work.
-I've removed cars from the rough board because I figured nobody (I mean nobody) would want to draw, paint, and/or animate cars lol. Bikes might be the better choice for the sake of everyone's sanity.

Assignment Schedule



*Individual Assignments #1 and #2*

*Group Assignment #1

*Group Assignment #2

*Group Assignment #2 Rubric