New Fern rotation and design pack

ink test

just a quick doodle of fern in ink

New Fern Design

Ink Tests

ok so i tried to clean up the characters in ink (approaching it as if we were cleaning up animation) and i think if we do do it in pen, it should be something other than brush or dip pen :| probably one of those markery type pens would be best (i'll bring one to school on monday and show you guys) i really like the ink lines of the second character, if we applied it to the layouts. I'm NOT saying we should clean the characters up like this, just to clarify, i know it will take forever and it would jitter like crazy!

I inked this one last after i had warmed up with the pen a bit, i created these lines by keeping the pen on the page but varying the pressure as i drew, i think i prefer the texture of these lines but i dont think I applied it right to this bg

these lines were made by lifting the pen and applying heavy pressure then sort of trailing off. they feel a little stiff to me, its alright but i'm not the biggest fan

 I just tried to keep these lines straight....i dont like it :s (sorry i destroyed your layout kim!)

just kind doodling the jars for behind the counter. i also thought the flies would look kinda cool with a scribbley texture when they're up close

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 :)

New fern design explorations

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.

Blargh

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

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. :)

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

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.

Concepts and FLOOR PLAN

 FLOOR PLAN

 Round One

 Round Two

Rehashing Chris' Design... testing out how to draw the character... which as it turns out, is really hard to do for me...

I am the Queen of Unappealing

Okay, so here's my attempt to draw a frumpy woman. You should have seen the other (much more like drag Queen) attempts...Very witchy, though. Hope it stirs up some ideas anyway :)

girl designs

the second one is the less "witchy-er" version, if you guys are cool with this kind of look then i can further variate the little details like bangs and sleeves to suit our film

Shop Girl Concepts

sorry Denise, i ran out of room and got lazy :p

General Design Stuff

Quick sketches here and there:

These ones below actually have nothing to do with the film, but I thought it might inspire stuff. :)