student development.

Freddy had a few drawings of the fisherman and also the merman which looked great. There was still the student left which for some reason I really wanted to design. Here below are some rough sketches I come up with.

I wasn't to happy with these designs until i come up with this rough drawing.

chosen character

I come up with this guy and decided to do side head turnaround shots to see if he would work. I showed Seb and Freddy and they said to tweak a few areas of his face so that his characteristics look similar to the fisherman. example bigger ears and square shaped nose.

Thumbnails

We decided to split up and take on some tasks we needed to complete such as nailing down the style which we are still having trouble with. Freddy decided to look more into the style, seb to do some render test of the sail on the boat and I to do the thumbnails of the story. Here below are the rough thumbnails of the story.

reenacted photos

we Decided that to help us plan out the story would to reenact what will be going on by taken snapshots of us performing the story out by getting on a boat. we thought this would be a great idea and also it would help us when it comes to the storyboards.

Add caption

Here above is the boat we took the shots on. we first had to find permission to do this by finding the guy that owns this. we had trouble finding him at first but in the end we were able to get permission. Here below are some example shots.

style

from our feedback we decided first things first is to nail down the style. we thought of looking in woodlane library through different illustration books would help us find a specific artist. we found a few interesting ones such as Nick Dewar, Istvan Banyai, Rodrigo Diaz Carrizo and many more. a few examples below of some artist

David Hughes

hughes has a wild style of stretchy necked and long faced characters which possibly could work well for the son as we are wanting him to be tall and lanky

Steve Brodner

Brodner's drawings have a lot of expressions going on, mostly in their faces which will be great for are animations as we are set to create a funny comedy.

Gerald Scarfe

I found Scarfe style to be unique in ways that would defiantly work. Big, fat and droopy this drawing of reginald maudling is the right type of style that we want for the merman

second pitch thoughts and feedback

on our second pitch it was defiantly a huge improvement from last weeks one. on this one we presented the story by bullets points. for each bullet point freddy created to rough thumbnails of the main shots that will be in the story. we then went on to show a few character designs i come up with. here is the feedback that was given to us.

• Huge improvement on delivery
• Story is far clearer
• Good idea to put images coupled with describing the story

they then discussed with us that we now need some more thumbnails and also the characters to have some different expressions going on. feedback below

• Want to see more concepts
• Thumbnails finished for next session
• Wow images
• Finalized character designs

first pitch thoughts and feedback

11/10/12
from our first pitch It was clear that we needed to work more harder for our second pitch. we took on board all the feedback they gave us and realised we need to improve by not showing slides of what we have been doing (taking photos of boats) rather to show what the story is and go through the characters etc. a few bullet points below from our feed back

• Story is still unclear.
• Keep the description of story concise
• More imagery helping to describe the story 
• Concepts
• More character designs
• Less about research
• Work on ending

character description

Dad

• heavy cornish accent
• gruff voice
• manly
• to the point/direct
• large hands and forearms
• wide chest
• hairy
• wears a hat
• woolly jumper
• water proof yellow fishing trousers
• smokes
• drinks

the fisherman drawings I did before was not what we were looking for so i come up with this new one.

this is the sort of build we want for him. I think i just need to change his red shirt to a navy jumper which most fishermen wear.

Son

• 6 foot tall
• scrawny
• hunch over
• lazy
• weak
• animation student
• sort tempered
• bit of a loner
• sarcastic (especially to his dad)
• typical teenager

with his description i then come up with this sketch

we are not sure if these two characters will be looking like this but this is a sort of example of what we want for are characters.