Ok. As soon as I came back to uni I was ambushed by a third year, Omari, and his Final Major Project. The simplified basic concept:
Little Loud: The Animated Series is a about a good little girl with a big bad shadow.
The project is to be around three minuits long and we are doing one episode which is set predominently in the child's bedroom, at night. The advantage of this story is that it is simple making it easy to to tell within a short space of time and the single setting also means you don't bombard the adience with too much info within a short time frame. Its logical.
The characters are the girl and her shadow.
My first task has been to work on character design. I noticed that his mood board was mostly comprised of gothic imagery, the majority was identifyably Tim Burton apeal so I asked if this was the visual vibe he was going for but this was not the case-it was mearly insparation for the shadow.
Anyway here are my first design ideas.
She is meant to be shy and timid ten year old who is creative and exciable when alone. She sometimes turns here blanket into a cape and (obviously) in here PJs.
You get the idea.
After spending time crafting and egineraing this crafting Omari and I had a meeting were he told me I had to change race and shape. Shere was to be african/carabean. Meh. Nothing wrong with that. Its what you do as a character designer. So I wnet off and did these.
Since the last meeting Omari had a better idea of what sort of style he want to go for but he likes the character so I've got to take these drawings and create the stylised variation. I've got some shadow concepts which I'll discus in a different blog so see yah.
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