Design development 3

The gang is finally all here.

So we were supposed to do beat boards to describe our film for presentation. I figured I've been doing everything digitally now a days, I wanted to make sure I could still draw, lol. So I boarded out as many panels as I felt would get the attitudes of the story across. What I have are not quite beats, not quite storyboards, but all good fun.

The pages are formatted into acts, cause iunno...

Act 1: Pride comes before the fall.

Act 2: Learning to accept others guidance.
Act 3: You're more awesome than you know.
Why did a I put little blurbs beside the acts? Well, why are you reading them... look at the pictures.

2 other new posts below, Enjoy!

Design development 3 continued...

Another layout concept for the film. I wanted the Ibex to be in a very bright, rundown piece of the jungle. I put a rockface behind him, cause he feel's kinda goaty to me.

The initial design sketch for the Ibex. I'm a little irked by how many people like this guy over the others.

Fun fact: Design time for each character. Cub: 2 days, Chameleon: 2 weeks, Mother/Orora: 3 days, Ibex : 2 minutes. lol

A face chart for Orora. I have to do one for all the characters, but these sketches looked nice. Both leopards, and the chameleon deliver dialogue, as of right now, so their designs had to be capable, and believable of that.

This is a triple post day, btw. The one below is just as new as these first 2. I just formatted them for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Design developement 2

I've been designing for group film pitch.

Added the little cub's mom today into the lineup.

The Ibex below is just a rough concept. I like the idea of him being really old, and a bunch of young doe's around to laugh when the cub fails.

I thought I should put out there that designs don't just come from 1 drawing. This is an actual sheet I made myself after scribbling for a couple hours. I took all the drawings that had an element or 2 that I liked, and put them on one page to self-reference more easily.
An old design for the chameleon. I had an extra slot for this post, so why not toss it in.
The only other project this year is the Action Analysis Animation!!!

I actually designed like 5 or 6 concepts, with their own little story, maybe I'll scan em in, and post em later. What I settled on was just designing myself into a squire, and swinging a big sword. So there's me, and my medieval made-up father.

And here's the story reel. Hope it works. Caused me so much grief to put up, lol. Lost it's widescreeniness.

Design developement

I haven't really had any formal assignments yet. Just a lot of developing ideas at my own pace. Which is worrying, cause I get too much time to mull things over in my brain. I decided to push ahead and start doing the designs for everything I knew would be coming up in the near future.

So here is some work my short story pitch.

Lesson number 1 is how to catch a moth.

He's just so cute.
The chameleon has been some work, don't really think he's ready yet.
Some more exploration of his dimensionality. Wanted to clear up all his forms.
This is just a toss in. Was going to start designing the other characters for the idea.
The post below is new stuff too. A little bit of an apology for how rough and unclear my posts have been as of late.

Extra goodies

On top of designing for group film, I've been trying to figure out what I want to do for my action analysis. I've been boarding out a lot of ideas, but nothing is really singing to me yet.

I wanted to do a little piece about an eager scout at first. I didn't want the design of the kid to be generic, so I thought about how people I knew would look as kids. Then I just decided to design me and some of the guys as cub scouts for the lol.

This one's a troll, I wanted to be a frog farmer.

Another design for the troll. Basically the premise was he finds a turtle snapping at his frogs, and hits it all the way to Timbuktu with a log/club.

And I did spend the time to think about how I want to resculpt my orangutan. I haven't started it yet, but the schematics exist.

Story designing

They changed up third year a little, so we all have to write and design our own stories for a while. I have 2 written up, and haven't decided which one to go with, so I've just been designing both.

One of them have this forest deity, He's like a duck, a goat, and a lion put together. And when he's not stuffing his face, he can zoom around like a fat humming bird.

And yes, he can lay on the smolder.
His deity powers let him change people into the essence of their totems. So I made a totem design for him.
I've also been trying to design an elderly chameleon. This design can't be used, cause he's gotta talk and convey some other emotions. But it just looked so blobby. Maybe I'll refine this one later.

Doodles

I've been trying to copy drawings everyday. It gives my brain a rest after work, while upping my drawing skill. But sometimes I get board of that, and just doodle. So here are some random animal designs. I know you love the cellphone camera updates, lol.

An eager young jaguar, actually for a film concept.

Some forest critters, I was going to design a header for my blog I think.
That little rabbit made me want to draw an old rabbit.
Crocs are cool

zombie dad cover 1

Wanted to try at some cover art. Going to make some comic strips soon I think. I think I learned from this that I definitely wanna do hand drawn instead of on tablet, and I'll just ink it on the computer.

Zombie Dog

Made a model sheet for class. Then decided to colour it. Forgot to grab a copy of my pre-coloured so this is all you get.

It's been a long time coming 1/3

This blog post is rather large by my standards. The blogger only lets me do 5 images per post, so I had to break it up.

So the whole first post is dedicated to my new storyboard project. I designed a western for character design class. If you don't know the story already, you can probably figure it out by the poses of the characters and their little blurbs. If not, you'll just have to wait til it's done being boarded.

It's been a long time coming 2/3

More designs :D.

This first set it kinda a highlight for me. As I got more and more tired of the repetitive procedure to use the pen tool properly, I started cheating by using the polygon lasso. Eventually I made up my mind I could just draw stuff with that tool, and so I made these animals. I plan to do a lot more cause they're fun, stress relieving, and get me out of my designing niche.

This was a quick colour test of the orangutan, before I even finalized his design.
His rotation. I drew poses for him too, but they're too ugly to post.
His grumpy friend...
... and his poses.

The arrival of TAW

We had to design a character to throw something in an animation. Who better to lift stuff than the legendary Taw. With his fohawk, punisher t-shirt, and incredible calves.

The rotation.

Key poses - He's supposed to be struggling with the weight. This doesn't happen in real life for Taw, so I had to make it up.
Some expressions for my own enjoyment. Look at that RAGE.
Head turn. I just really like this model. My teacher said it looked organic.

test

Edit 2 below: First body test/colour test. I'm gonna make the colours way more vibrant, I just wanted to try with placements. I think I'm gonna animate this guy soon. but now to sleep. Oh, and this was my 60th post, I guess it was special kinda.

Edit: Did one more at the top here. think I got it a little better. on this one.

watching firefly, and testing out some alien model. Goodie

more

I like this cuter design more, and the little tentacle ears, aww-dorable. I think I'm gonna give him a lime green mouth cavity. I saw a bird of paradise with one. Thought it was cool.