Character concepts

Thee are a couple of character concepts I did.

This is a reference photo for the samurai pizza robot and how the idea came about.

This is the final design for the character I wanted it to have a bit of a menacing feel to it, hence the dark face and red eyes. The only thing is I felt the character was lacking something but I couldn't figure out what so I left it so I could return to it later without overdoing it.

These are the concepts for Harriet the character in 'Heroine' who I also used in 'Dark Times' as well. I wanted it to be a female early on just because I have always struggled drawing them so this was more so I could improve myself over anything else. She is based on a mixture of comic styles and friends I know. I was also trying out this bring out the bottom lip thing and in some places it worked in others not so much.

Thumbnail drawings for 3 ideas

3 Short film ideas

Samurai Pizza Robot:

• A robot opens up a pizzeria
• Serves many customers
• A new pizza place opens across the road
• Huge queue outside the new place
• Original robot sees the owner of the new place is a robot
• Old robot challenges new one to a battle in the street
• The battle ends with the first robot cutting the new one with a pizza cutter
• Original robot stands triumphant

Dark Times:

• Main character in waiting room
• Doctor walks in and looks down
• Colour fades as Character stand next to a body covered on a bed
• Character walks and sits at a tree
• Days and nights pass by in the background
• Character gets up and walks into town
• As they walk through town they see people around being happy, especially a mother and child
• They walk into a cemetery stands and looks at as gravestone
• They fall to their knees tears in their eyes
• After a while they get up and put their hand on the gravestone
• Mouths 'I miss you' and walks away with a smile

Heroine:

• Harriet walks down the street with a smile on her face
• Someone drops some documents in front of her
• She them up and gives them to the person and continues on her way
• She arrives at the bank
• Three guys in black run through as she opens the door
• She then follows them in
• A bank clerk is being robbed by one and the other two are stealing from customers
• She walks up to the two men to ask what's going on
• They tell her that they were just getting their stuff back
• She tries to be helpful by robbing the rest of the people
• The man on his own shouts and they run to the door
• Harriet opens the door for them
• The robbers run away and the police stop Harriet
• She's confused for a few seconds then realises what's happened

These were the ideas I took and presented to the group albeit a bit more fleshed out here, but the feedback I got was good I made changes to accompany it. If not represented here it is in my sketchbook in the notes I made. The Idea I'm going to go with is the Heroine one as it was voted by the class.

Colours

In this session we used inks to create our pictures. It didn't really go well for my drawing of the pumpkins, but it was interesting to see what happened as everything kind of melted together.

This picture in particular was interesting due to the process of getting the idea for it, we had to imagine a story of sorts and pick a key scene from it.

Zog opening

For this task we had to do a rough storyboard of the opening to Zog in pairs. I feel as though I may have gotten carried away with it but I do enjoy doing these.

Hands and Feet

We drew some hands a feet these have always been some of my weaker points, something that I always try to improve on when I can.

Bottle test

https://vimeo.com/117134863

This is a video of me testing a bottle being dropped and being hit with potatos