for the final animation I made a few little animatics to try and get an idea of how I wanted the gun animation to look , i designed a character who would load the bullets in his arm and then shoot , I wanted him to look silly and over the top since I feel as though that’s how a lot of the characters in the book appear , he appears as some sort of soldier . I wanted the camera for this animation to be interesting and for the animation to show the mechanisms of how loading the bullets work

 

With a character design of a soldier I created with the world of the codex in mind I started animating the gun hand. I thought it would be interesting if the little arrow on his head blew in the direction he was supposed to shoot working as an alert and aiming system. I had him load in his bullets into his arm and then caulk his arm like a shot gun. I gave him a very ridiculous over the top hairstyle since since in the book it has a way of making characters that are supposed to be serious or even mysterious look ridiculous .

 

I’m happy with the way this animation turned however if I want to add it to my portfolio I’ll definitely zoom in and go into my detail of him loading in the bullets, also looking back I think I should add in a bang animation or perhaps even smoke coming from the hand so you can defiantly tell it has shot the gun .i also would have like to render this animation and give it some clean lines but sadly I didn’t have enough time. I had fun doing the secondary animation for his hair as it was very poofy and floaty. When he realised that his arrow has turned to the left he has a reaction and in turn his hair floats up , I did this because I was inspired by ghibli and how when a character is angry or surprised not only does their body tense up but so does their hair .

Final animations with sound –

for the next section of my assignment I moved on from animation to design. I was trying to be experimental so I ended up creating my own ideas for how I think the society inside the book would function, I didn’t wanna go too exaggerated since I still wanted the ideas to be easily understandable but I still tried to keep it weird and random since since looking through the book the rules in which the world works are very loose and unclear.

I designed a character that would act as the model for this part of the assignment, I gave them a Bob haircut as I feel like if a model did exist in this world they would definitely  enjoy have that strange haircut. wanted to showcase the model in different looks , in a part of the book they show one of the people wearing makeup so I decided to design some ideas for everyday makeup looks that they might wear in their strange society , the makeup is very over the top and sometimes makes no sense why they would even wear this since it isn’t necessarily very appealing, but I think it shows how their world is different from ours and how culturally what they find appealing differs from us. (I added in the fake language to try and imitate the books fake language).

makeup –

I wanted to design some outfits , in the book it appears to showcase outfits with a wearable item for the body, hat and then what appears to be a weapon maybe even a statement piece at the bottom. I tried to make the outfits look surreal and impractical since a lot of the outfits in the book are this way , they don’t seem fit for any occasion and in fact seem impossible to move or walk in some cases .I’d say the first two outfits Iv drawn in the image below are more accurate portrayals of the fashion you would see in the book, however the other two outfits I drew where to replicate the comedy that the book portrays with its random nonsensical society.something else I noticed is that the outfits in the book have a lot of tony details and many colours however sorting I noticed a lot of was stripes so in a lot of my designs there are stripes and ramdpm

little details so I could try and make it look more like the outfits seen in the book.( I also tried to my it look like they where actually on the physical book)

 

I drew my model in a few of the outfits . The green onesie outfit is one seen in the book and the other outfits I made up .I wanted them to pose on different strange ways because I felt as though in this universe , if models even exist they would definitely do things in uncouth ways unlike models in out society . I feel like this way it fits the fashion better.

 

overall I’m happy with the way this assignment went and I had fun exploring the possibilities of the world that these people and creatures live in. My favourite part of the assignment was the design aspects since it gave me a lot of freedom to just draw whatever I wanted and make up my own theories . The creature design I’m happiest with would have to be the rooster chick , I really enjoyed coming up with a weird and unique way for it to move and really being able to exaggerate the art style and try something  new since I feel as though the other animations where far less exaggerated . I would like to have things more fully rendered even after the hand in so I can add it to my portfolio.