Toby Twirl Tales - A little Penguin.

I've been doing some work for Elliot on his 3rd year project because i'm nice like that. Nah, I just like penguins. Below is a little old walk cycle developed from one of the characters in the books, I found this to be the easiest walk cycle I have ever created in the history of my life. I like it. Have a gander.

These are the still shots, coloured to make it a wee bit happier.

 

Character Desigh - NQL - Production bible.

In the post below I featured some research sketches I had done for the female TV presenter for our animation, since then I have done the digital coloured copy, pretty darn chuffed with how it has come out if i'm to be so honest.

 

Below are two of the finished characters for this concept, the TV presenter who I have talked about previously that was designed, drawn and coloured by me, and then the Mafia boss who was designed drawn and coloured by Lydia.

 

 

The next characters that I have been working on this week are the two terrorists (in the most ridiculously inaccurate stereotypical way, I am not a racist, just to clarify.) We did some research on these and by that I mean put stuff from pinterest together to make a pretty mood board. As so wonderfully demonstrated below.

 

 

From this I sketched out a few handfuls of ideas, trying out different shapes, faces, styles and clothing until I chose the two that I felt most happy with, they are meant to reflect terrorism in a sarcastically humorous light, not that terrorism is funny or anything...

 

 (The tow on the left were the chosen men].)

 

I played around with different body shapes but decided it would be amusing to have them completely opposite in stature and facial expression. Below are the finished characters which I designed, drew and coloured.

 

 

Thank you and Goodnight.

 

Research Bible - Tv Presenter

For our pre-production work this year we have to hand in a Production Bible, and  Research Bible for our concepts that we had to pitch last friday to a script writer man of whom was very nice and helpful. 

Currently i am working on the Teleshopping channel presenter, she's a ditzy blonde lady with a large chest and presumably not much else going on, the joke is that every now and again she says something surprisingly intelligent about the inner workings of the products and everyone sort of looks at her like "what are you?" 

Today i was doing some body sketches, mainly to just learn how a bit better, it was quite an enjoyable session, women are certainly my favourite to draw because of the curves. I don't get a chance to draw boobs often, so it was fun. Hahahahaha, beats penis (see last post..) 

ANYWAY. 

Here is what i've been up to today. I'm about to import these into photoshop and do some digital
work! 

This is a lovely mood board that I put together for the character ideas.





NQL - Progress

So. Tomorrow we have a practice pitch to a man from industry, Lydia and i are pitching our NQL idea. In basics it is... (Delve into pitch..)

NQL is your not quite legitimate shopping channel, our concepts features a parody shopping channel that accommodates all your dodgy dealers, criminals and general crooks. The idea is that the host, a stereotypical blonde bimbo is constantly stuck trying to flog all these illegal, controversial products in a humorous way, she’s never entirely sure what she is trying to sell or what it is for and always finds a way of causing a dramatic accident.

It’s aimed to be a 15-20 minute animated series that would ideally be played late at night on channels like E4 and BBC 3. Monthly news stories and events would be taken into account on the writing of each episode to incorporate the events in a dark humorous manner, much like in programs such as South Park and Archer.

In this potential episode we have featured the illegal goings on of Mobsters, Terrorists and your good old local skinhead just trying to make a few quid.

You get the picture, so today we got to the studio early-ish, i mean 10, which is pretty good to be honest, considering the type of person i am.

We had to make some concept art in the Art Deco style as thats the card we were given, this is the piece i worked on all day that involved the special guests on the TV show. 

Funny in 15 - Wanker!

Today was our final hand in for our funny in 15 project, we decided that it was sensible to go with something to do with penis' because everyone knows that they are really really funny.

Elf did the anamatic for this (see previous post) and i did the character designs, they came out a little differently than i saw them in my head but i think they work aesthetically
 for the background that was also created by elf. We tried to merge them so it all looked quite matchy matchy.

Sammy animated the man on the left and i was stuck with the one that is having the time of his life on the right, i forgot how much i enjoy 2D animation and really should get some more practice in! Over all it was quite hilarious to create despite the confusing looks i got. Fun! Fun! Fun! The sounds do make me uncomfortable though, i suggest you listen to it with headphones on for full effect.