Narrative- Character Body Thumbnails

After making a clay model of our main characters head, I thought that his body didn't match in quite the same style. Since this character (Twit) is based on the twitter logo, I looked to real birds for references. I've come up with a few rough sketches that could be used for Chirper's final character design. Some feedback would be appreciated for this.

Narrative- Character Clay Model

When sketching out the main character in our narrative project, I found it was tricky to accurately draw the head from different angles. So I decided to sculpt a small model out of clay to use as reference for drawing. I feel this will help when creating an expression sheet for this character, and even benefit us when we start to digitally model him. It's also good to have this model to pass around to everyone in the group who may need a reference point to draw or model from.

Life Drawing- Wedding Day of the Dead

Today in life drawing the model was dressed to the theme of day of the dead, to fit in with Halloween. I really enjoyed this session as it gave us the chance to experiment with colour and patterns. I found it difficult to get start with just charcoal, so after the first sketch I moved onto water colours. When it came to the final sketch, I decided to use mixed media. However I found this really tricky as my first attempt went wrong. So I flipped the sketch around and started again.

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Character- Hive Heist Environmental Sketches

I've been focusing a lot on the characters and creatures in this game, and not enough on the environment. If I get the setting of the game established that may help me more to create a storyline. These are only the first sketches I've made, and I plan on making more that are referenced from nature. 

I decided to create a province with a few settlements in it. This is a rough sketch of the main settlement. On the tree is the hive castle and bellow are hundreds of mushroom houses. Once again these are really rough sketches and have a lot of work to be done to them.

Justin's Character Design Lesson

In Justin's last character lesson we were given a genre to create characters for. The genre I was given was 50s B-movie, and so I created Tula. She is from another planet far away, and reigns as queen there. In an attempt to rule more planets she comes to Earth in search of power. She arrives in America in the 1950s. She is then lead to believe that Marilyn Monroe is queen of the Earth, and so tries to imitate her image, however it doesn't quite work and a lot of her original alien image still shows.

Another idea I had was a werewolf of wall street. I made this purely for the pun.

Life Drawing

Thanks to the change in the timetable, I was able to join the first year's life drawing class. I haven't done life drawing for quite a few months and found it slightly tricky getting back into it. I found today that the fast sketches went well for me, but the longer poses were slightly out of proportion. Still it was good to do this again, and I hope to join onto more classes in future.

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Narrative- First Animatic

This is the first animatic made for our narrative project. I plan on putting together another one, after seeing the mistakes through this one. A couple of things can be improved with the timing, but that is on my part as I put this together. What I have notices that may need to be changed is the written text on screen. Some of it needs to be shortened so it is easier for the audience to read quickly.