Character and Background Design Session

In this week's session, we experimented with the use of digital collage in order quickly and efficiently generate concept images to a written specification. We began with a description of a character, who to my mind came across as being a callous, elderly man with spider-like proportions:

...and the image below was produced to the specification of a dystopian future in which nature has reclaimed the Earth's landscape:

I really enjoyed this method of producing imagery for an idea; primarily as it requires a fairly minimal understanding of the concept you are trying to develop, thus making it ideal for a fresh project. The use of existing imagery really helps to generate solid imagery, rich in depth and texture, that would be extremely difficult to achieve if one was to try and draw the same idea from scratch on a blank page. I'm sure this technique will be helpful when I come to developing my animation for this module.