Character Line Up

Big Bad MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONSTER!!

Profile and side view of the monster in my film. I'm so scared of making this guy but I will post up my process when it eventually happens :p

Friendly Creature Expressions and Actions

I haven't put up much work for this little guy except the turnaround so here's some expressions and kind of action poses for him. I think they look rather eye catching and appealing plus I think he looks super cute :3 Hope he looks even cuter when he's physically made :)

Actions and poses :)

Just some more coloured up action poses for you all. Did these pretty quickly but they seem to look okay :) I hope you all like :)

More expressions :)

Gotta say I could never be a 2D animator. I would never be able to keep the drawing consistent. So I apoligise for the lack of consistency in my expressions. Ah well..at least they are pretty to look at right? :D 

More Turnarounds!

Drew these out the other night and here they are all coloured up! I may change the colours but I'm going for a very blue theme with my characters so why not! As you can tell, one of them looks a bit different to the one pictured at the bottom. And I shall explain the reason why! In my story, the girl character (she isn't human even though that is totally obvious don't even know why I wrote that but I'll carry on) is kinda like a care taker to these little guys and feeds them delicious fruit everyday. The creature seen at the top has a little more of a personality and isn't so much of a mindless drone compared to the creature pictured at the bottom. He also contributes a bit more to the story too :) But I won't get into that yet.. but all will be explained in the end!

Some poses :)

Hope everyone had a lovely Xmas :3 Now back to Uni work! Here are two poses I did for my action sheets. I still need to do more but seeing as I've concentrated on the girl character WAAAAAAAAY too much, I thought I'd try and do some stuff for the little creatures that will be in my film. Gonna post some stuff up of those little guys after this post :)

Merry Late Christmas!

Even though Christmas is done and over for another 364 days, we are still in the holiday season so I thought it would be okay to post this up! Decided to use the characters from my 2nd year film for a Christmas card idea I gave to some friends and family this year. Its quite basic and I did it in one night but I think it looks okay. Even though the film with these guys wasn't that successful, they are still very near and dear to my heart and I won't let these little guys be lost amongst some of my other work. I did say in a previous post a long, LOOOOOOONG time ago that they may turn up on my blog again someday.. and here they are! And again, Merry Christmas!!!

Some expressions :)

Some coloured expressions for my character. Hope to put some more work up just before Xmas day :)

Turnaround Time!!!

Here's the colour turnaround for my main character of my 3rd year film. I thought I'd get it out of the way now just so its done as I normally struggle when it comes to turnarounds :/ I will probably make some changes and alterations but this should do for now :)

                           

Some drawings of my characters face coloured using markers. I did scan them in beforehand though just in case :P

Character in colour once again :)

Just wanted to post another coloured version of my character up on the blog :) Still deciding whether or not to make her arms a bit abnormally long or to keep the short body with the long legs. Still undecided but I hope to come to a decision soon :) Enjoy the pretty picture though :)

Rough Monster Designs

Some rough and quick digital colour versions of concept for my monster. They are quite crude but I have tried to simplify it down as much as I can but I still want it to look intimidating at the same time. Still in progress :)

Monster and Small Critter Designs

Some more doodles of the development of my characters for my 3rd year film. The little creatures I have tried to mix them up slightly sometimes giving them legs and no arms and arms and no legs but I think I have ultimately decided to give them neither :P  Just little blobs with a big mouth :P I still haven't decided on a final design as I feel I still haven't done enough development still.. :/ I am struggling to come up with a cool and interesting design for the big monster but I have a few ideas which I will put in the next post :)

More doodles of my character :) Trying to mix it up a little but really struggling at the moment. Like I've said in previous posts,  I'm not that keen on designing :P These are just scribbles in all fairness but anything I do is development so I thought I'd post them up :) More to follow at some point :P

Character In Development

Hello again anyone and everyone who follows me or has just happened to come across my blog :) Haven't posted much in the last few weeks had a lot going on and I've been trying to knuckle down and focus more on my actual story so the development of my character designs is slightly behind at the moment, but I'm getting there slowly. Designing and concept are not my strong points but I do try my best :) Hoping to post up more drawings and doodles of my characters and more information regarding my story in the coming weeks.

If anyone has any comments as well on how I can maybe change my design or try something a little different, I'm all ears :)

New Character Idea!

Now that After Effects is all done and dusted I thought it was time to post this up. This is an idea for a character I'm thinking of using in my 3rd year film. The design isn't final and there will probably be a few changes, but I hope the character can stay as true to this shape as possible. I plan to make this character with needle felting like the puppets from my 2nd year film but, I want to try and advance on the technique further. There will be more posts about that once I actually start building puppets again :)

I've also included different colour swatches of my character. The blue one is the original but if anyone thinks any of the other colours would be better, please leave a comment. I hope to post more up within the next week once pre production gets into full swing :)

Set Design Concepts and In Situ

Apologizes if these blind anyone. These are just some quick concepts I came up with as a way of envisioning what my final sets will look like. I'm currently making small scale versions of each planet just to figure out a general layout when they are made full scale.

I will post pictures of the first set soon :)

Major Project Pre Production Turnarounds

Two turnarounds for both my characters. They could look a lot better and I should have spent more time on them but as you can see I much prefer making my characters rather than drawing them. I know that isn't really a good excuse but what can you do? :P

Major Project Pre Production Action Sheets Selene

Some more actions and expressions. In my opinion, these came out a lot nicer than the previous ones.