SUMMARY:

Overall, a fairly productive day with some minor hiccups.

FINALISED CHARACTER DESIGN FOR MY FOOD RULER: (President Jellius)

Character Description:

“President Jellius is a respectable politician from the land of Sugarvale. He worked his way up from the bottom and now he is giving back to poorest in his society. He maintains a steady economy via trade with neighbouring kingdoms such as Crustoria and Vitanor. But there is conflict brewing between the Kingdoms – he is not sure how long the peace will hold, but whatever happens, he must put his own citizens first.”

He is relatively small, a gummy bear of about 3 feet tall and 1 and half feet wide. Above I have outlined all of his expressions and how they are contained within the red and green face mask boundaries. I wanted his design to be as simplistic as possible to allow for easy posing during the animation process.

QUICK AND DIRTY STORYBOARD OF MY SPECIFIC KEY FRAMES & SECTIONS:

I wanted to keep thing very gestural for the above drawings – just “quick and dirty” so that I wouldn’t get too bogged down in the details too early.

MY STILL FRAMES COLLATED (ONE SECTION)

I enjoyed this part, designing all the different still shots was very fun and there various influences mentioned below:

REFERENCES:

“The Candy Kingdom” from the TV Show, Adventure Time

“Ichirou Saikou” from the videogame, Yandere Simulator

Still-Shot from movie, Saving Private Ryan

MY TURNING ANIMATION INTO A LOOK OF “SHOCK!”

RESEARCH:

Although my animation is not nearly as animated as the above video, researching this particular movement was still very very helpful

MY ANIMATION OF THE SUGARVALE TROOPS INVADING THE SEASONAL ARCHIPELAGO