This past week or so I've been working on the virally marketing stuff I mentioned in the last post. It's basically going to be a series of shorts about how bad things can happen when things don't fit. Right now I'm working on stories!
I need to have 2 finished animations (they're all around 30 seconds each) by late September, so I want 2 animatics done by the end of the week and 3 more stories in the beginnings so I know where I'm going with the whole project. I'm trying to think of ways to link these stories together too but that's something for another post.
Anyway I've got some pretty pics n vids to show now from the style tests I've been doing this week...
These 3 vids were working on an idea for a style I wanted to explore. I started by working with stills and a quickly made character to see if the idea could work, then went on to some very quick and dirty renders that you can see above.
Here are some of the stills I worked on if you're interested:
Test 1 Test 2
Once the scratchy line and underlaying texture style was locked down I started working on concepts for characters and what the world would look like. Where I'm at now is pretty much what you can see at the top of the post. That was a quick mock up done in photoshop that, with a few tweaks, is pretty much what I'm aiming for the final animations to look like.
I think the backgrounds need more work... I need to find a style for them that fits in with the rest of the world but lets the characters and props stand out at the same time.
I'll scan in the rest of my character concepts soon and upload them! They're a bit out of my comfort zone which is great, I've got too used to doing kiddy designs over the last couple of years. I'll have to do a sculpt soon to make sure these guys are gonna work in 3D, I'll take some pics and upload them too.
Right, back to work...
Cheers
