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.

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.

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 :)

Interior Style Pack

I cleaned up and expanded Kim's rough layout. I noticed this angle worked fantastic for my part of my boards, so this will be storyboard panels 3-4 too.

Some notes:

-I tried colouring the edges so that it's not pure black all the way. Fern is the only one with black edges to stand out amongst the slightly lighter edges around her.
-I watched Seema's link to that fat dude dancing but I noticed the backgrounds were pretty monochrome. If people deem this version to be too complicated and taking away from the main characters, we can shift the colours so they aren't as "rainbow".
-A black and white sans characters version has been attached for people who want to mess with it. I can't draw Fern properly so maybe somebody can place her and the people better than I could.

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 :)

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. :)

 

Brimley Exploration

Some Wilford

Shopper Exploration

exploratory sketches of the people of kensington market..

General Exploration

this is a car in kensington market, i thought it would be a cool touch to have some recognizable elements of the street for people that are fimiliar with the area. its an old car with a lot of pants growing out of it.

like i said in the fb post, not the best drawing day, but hopefully this will help spark some ideas... (btw love the redesign of the blog lol)

Damn you facebook

Here are Natalie's Designs for customers and the woman in the fruit shop. FB won't load these for some reason, so here they are!