Character Designs - The Boy

Originally i was going to use a real child's face
as the main design for the characters face with
permission from the child's mother. Unfortunatly
she pulled out of helping me without any reason.
I then moved on to making a 2D design for the
face and i'm happy with the final design.


Below are a few older designs. When I was originally
going to use my friends son's face I was going arrange a day
for getting various shots of his face and then editing his face
in Photoshop.

Envronment Designs Part Deux.

Here are some environment designs that
i had been playing. A few may look the same
as each other but they do have diffences.

This first one is the most recent design. it
was a test to get the layout of the 3D space
in After effects to look good. it needs some
more work like the background; maybe add
some mountains, more trees and even clouds.





This image was a test design of an an idea I had
of having the ground layered like pieces of
corrugated cardboard.


I then took the idea to the next stage and had
my friend Ben model the card in maya. even
though i could have easily made it myself with
real card and taken pictures, I wanted to have
more control over the lighting of the set piece.




Made in After effects i played with the perspective
of the trees, trying to achive a cran shot. needs more
work.



These next pics, were early tests for setting up
the layers in 3D space and adding some shadows.





I also placed the character design into the scene
to see what size he should be compared to every
thing else.

In the end I was happy with the bottom picture
as it suits the size of the character.

Character Designs - The Bird

Originally was going to be in my film but
decided not to as it seemed unnecesary
for the story as the dog should be the center
of the tension scene that shows up. However
I thought I would include the various designs
for the bird.

Animatic

After making some changes to the films
story and character changes here is
the final animatic with the new
storyboard below it.

Character Designs - Garden Gnome

This is the final design of the gnome. I kept with
the vector style but added more detail to the
face as well as adding various textures on top of it.



These are earlyier vector style designs.

Moodboard

This is just a few examples of what sort of style
and mood I'm going for with this film.