Pan-shot

As of now I've begun animating the scenes. I'm thinking of starting the animation with this panning-shot. Google's SketchUp was used to help me with perspective.

Storyboard

This is my latest and probably final moving storyboard. I'm working on layouts now, so maybe some camera angles will be changed. I don't think it will affect the timing.

Storyboard



Now the old story didn't really tell anything. Maybe just an observation of a child and it's imagination. So I took the interesting bits and twisted and shifted and added some new drawings to make up a story from beginning to end.
I think the new story flows much better and actully tells something.

Concept speedy

Continuing the search for a nice mood, I came up with this speedpainting. Just trying :-) Now back to the storyboard for my animation. It needs some serious clarifying. Sigh... me and my sketchyness.

Character

Today I've been playing around with the main character for my upcoming animation. Here's some style exploration. I might go for a combination of drawn and vector. Can't decide yet :)

Illustrationlike

I wanted to try something different. The following image conjured itself. Some James Jean influences (lightyears behind his finesse, ofcourse) swam in my head and a guy I know that plays flamenco style guitar.. yes then you could get something like this. Anyhoo, it was a fun ride.

Style exploration

Here is some style-exploration for my graduanimation. I kinda like the vector work. Simplistic but powerful when your colors are working. Some earlier attempts with gouache failed miserably. Very muddy and time consuming.




More soon, 'cause I've also been working on the storyboard. Hopefully I can finish and show some later this week.
Cheers.

Gouache doodle

Recently I bought some Gouache from the kid's section of Ikea. As cheap as it comes :) but that doesn't matter. Paint is paint.
Today I wanted to doodle around with the stuff. I tried to do a version of the character Nobody Owens, from "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman. Ofcourse it isn't badass like Dave mcKean's but for the sake of doodlin... it's ok I guess.
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