Character and Narrative: Study Task 4

Character and Narrative

Study Task 4 - The Art Of Coconut Conundrum!

• For this task:
• I researched a series of Art Books in order to understand the layout and style in-which other studios approach showing the process of their work. I looked at 'The Art of Steven Universe' and 'The Legend of Korra - Book 3: Change, The Art of the Animated Series,' for my research.
• One of the first things I noted from both books, was the use of sketches and fully rendered ideas on the same page, illustrating the thought process of creating the worlds and characters. 'The Legend of Korra' artbook included a lot of storyboard ideas and had individual pages for characters and backgrounds.
• As a group, in creating the art-book, we set out a structure which follows the pre-production, production and post-production phases.

The Legend of Korra Art-Book Sample:

Steven Universe Art-Book Sample:

• Unfortunately, we had only one character, so a lot of the development work was just creating concepts and expressions for them. We also only had one location, so the environment concepts focused on beaches and tropical landscapes. This is something which can be improved upon in the future, exploring more ideas for character designs and being more creative with environment concepts.

Here is the art-book: