IPP: Week 3 & 4

WEEK 3 & 4

During this week, we began the research for our project. For me, in particular, how is in charge of the environment/background of the animation, I focused on researching about two things. First, finding references and gathering information about different possible styles for the 2.5d environment. Secondly, I made a mood board to get a better understanding of what moods and vibes would the environment needs the most in order to convey the message within the animation.

Storyboard reviewed by myself

While I was working on the research for the environment, my teammates were working on the storyboard and character designs. Two of my teammates worked on two separate storyboards as it would give us a wider range of ideas on how the same story and message could be communicated. Therefore, after receiving their storyboard, I also gave my own thoughts and ideas especially on how these two storyboards could come together and also on some small problems with the plot.

CHARACTER DESIGNS

This is the initial designs that our character designer had came up with. We first decided on what our main character would look like, below is the two final choices.

From the two designs above we decided on the left design as we feel that his shape/silhouette is more distinctive as well as him having this more frail, skinny, and anxious look.

Character Turn Around

Characters in Different Poses