Applied Animation: Competition - Character Model Sheets

Applied Animation

Character Model Sheets and Tests

• This week:
• I produced model sheets for the final character ideas, to help develop the style and understand the movements of the characters, in a lineless style.
• I also produced some tests to try decide how the characters will fit into the background.
• What went well:
• I finalised all three model sheets, in the lineless style we have decided to do, with a variety of poses and some movements which they will be seen doing in the animation. They are fluid and keep consistent with the turnarounds and overall style.
• I also produced an additional mock-up of a character in one of the refined backgrounds, to test how we can make them stand out, whilst keeping to Audibles' colour scheme. One idea that worked well was adding an outer glow to the main character, which can be applied to an entire layer in the timeline all at once, making it easier than drawing a white line on each frame. This would be more inconsistent this way, also.
• I additionally refined the background with the seat, to keep to the same style.
• What could be improved:
• The characters and backgrounds need to be experimented with more and tested to make sure the character feels a part of the environment, but also visually stands out. We will be doing more tests with other backgrounds.
• Further tests need to be done to make sure that the backgrounds work with the animatics and if they move, how we would go about doing this.
• Next week:
• I will be finalising the backgrounds and finishing pre-production work.

Model Sheets:

Background Test:

Refined seat: