This week I swapped groups into “Rats, sweets and skeletons”. This group was very organised with a very concrete storyline and a good idea of what characters and designs they wished to include.

For class we focused on character design and creating character reference sheets. We focused on shapes and creating characters from a shaped armature.

I based my character design on FunkoPop’s and I looked at different cartoon skeletons as reference for the design.

For homework I focused on different styles and characters to create for my new groups theme.

I first looked at rat designs, I initially looked at general anatomy of a rat and looked at some shadow silhouettes for shaping interesting poses. The rat character was to be a rough and dodgy looking character that was basically giving the girl character a “sweet” that was a drug. Therefore I looked into creating a a “drug dealer” look with a trench coat and kept the character features quite sharp to give him a more villainous look.

I also looked back into the FunkoPop design. I created the girl character and the skeleton character with this style. I also looked at a turntable of the skeleton character to see how he would look at different perspectives within the animation.

For this weeks class we focused on colour and how colour creates a setting for the scene.

Our group decided that we wanted our animation to keep a cold mysterious vibe throughout so we focused on green/teal shades and purples for our scenes.

I then used one of my thumbnail background designs to apply these colours and see if it gave the required “feel” within the scene. I felt like the blues and purples worked very well for this scene as its a derelict underground train station so my scene was very dark but light was being emitted from a distant passageway and the light shining from the robot characters screen face.

For homework we were assigned to start looking at designing characters for our world. Our groups characters were based off a world with tv head characters.

I also focused on another scene as at this stage our group hadn’t fully nailed the storyline to our world. This scene I created was a human character consumed by a void of Tv screens. I used the colour palette we had agreed on and I feel like it worked very well with this setting. The colours create a very sad and depressed feel to the scene and thats the kind of atmosphere I wanted it to portray.