animation style tests, using flash.

Ive been doing a couple of tests in flash to see if the use of a paper texture is going to work and how it will work.

1. movings character with a fixed fill that does not move.

2. Moving character with flickering fill.

3.Moving charcter on flickering background (flipbook)

Character concepts

Our main characters are a man and his dog and by the end of last we we had decided me would be a man who has just got out of bed when our story takes place, this weekend ive been working on some character sheets.

STORYBOARDS!

ive been storyboarding out our group project so i can explain it easily in the presentation today! there quite simlpe boards with not rweally any text yet but i think ive got the whole story in it and tyhe action is clear.

yes no, second consept art

ive been working on this second piece of concept art, playing around with how our animation will look, we want a mixture of style and like the idea of the main character having a papery texture

PRISON

after discussing my pre production project with a few different people it kept coming up that instead of my trumpet or musical instrument going to a human prison it should be going to a trumpet prison which in the world of musical instrument would be its case!

so ive put together this next piece of concept art showing a trumpet case and using the shadows of prison bars to suggest the idea of prison.

finished consept art 1

consept art for pre-production

Ive been working on this piece of consept art for my pre-pro project, its not finnished but it shows my main characters the trumpet and saxaphone playing music shown by brightly colours klimt style patters.

consept art

Ive been trying to make a piece of consept artwork which sums up the story and style in one image for our group project, below is what ive come up with, im going to continue working on it as i think the back ground isnt quite right, we are probably going to have a bit more colour in it.


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photoshoped textures

ive been building textures and using photoshop to repeart them and over lay them.

textures and patterns

Today I have been scanning patterns and textures i made copying Klimts work and i have been using photoshop to edit them into some of my line drawings.

Gustav's harmonica

Using photoshop ive edited the textures and patterns i copied from gustav klimts paintings and placed them into my line drawings of harmonicas, this is the 'look' that i want for my animation.

sketchbook pages

just a few pages from my sketchbook so far, click for a larger image!

New term, New Projects

Back in Falmouth, back in uni and back to work! We have 2 new projects one being a year long group project and the other a project focusing on Pre-production.

We were gived 4 random cards to give us our story and style and these were mine, so im working on a romantic comedy about musical instruments in prison in the style of gustav klimt!