Some Finishing Touches To My Designs

As I approach the production of my finished animation I decided to put some finishing touches to some of my designs to make sure they look as polished as possible in this piece. below are some model sheets depicting how the 'characters' of the hut and the bird look from different angles. This would allow any turns in the characters to be animated consistently if the animation were to come into production. I also find model sheets a great way of getting to know your characters better, it really helps to flesh out the images a bit and bring them into the real world; as opposed to having them exist just from one angle.

A model sheet depicting the 'character' of the hut from all angles

A model sheet for the bird in my animation, who I have chosen to name 'Klaus'

This piece illustrates where Klaus's features all lie in relation to each other, as well as demonstrating the way that his form is based upon a circle

In addition to fleshing out some of my character designs, I decided it would be interesting to look into more developed concept art for my environmental designs too:

Above is a fairly detailed sketch showing the first scene of my animation; while this piece of concept art is definitely too complicated and contrasting to my character designs for it to be used in my actual animated piece, I still feel that the process of producing it has given me a greater understanding of the world in which my animation takes place. Below, however, I have taken a much simpler approach; simply colouring the black and white images which I designed earlier for my animatic:

Coloured background for scene 1

Coloured background for the first antarctic scene

I really like the simplicity of these images and feel they match the style of my character designs nicely enough to potentially be used as the backgrounds in my final animation. The only concern I have regarding these images is that the antarctic background features no outlines and therefore clashes slightly with the background to scene one, which features thick, chunky outlines for the most part. I will most likely only need one background for the animation I produce for this module, however if I ever choose to develop this animation further outside of university, this is an element of the design that I will have to reconsider.