Concept Work Evaluation

After completing my first fraze of the concept work it was quite difficult at times to get the final polish look i was searching for. In the first two weeks Searching for a perfect way to execute the design was quite easy once i found my starting point, for the pirate i use a skeleton as my starting point to create the concept while also looking into films like pirates of the Caribbean as inspiration and looking at examples of other concept art on pirates. With the Ninja I though of muscle as it represents strength so I used structured human muscle pictures as my guide to shape the Ninjas body plus the poses also looking as concept art and normal images of ninja art work with a bunch of films. Now finishing this wave of work i will get back to AB Promo.

Concept Work .... Pt2

I Have Continued my progress with the concept work and finished designs for my Ninja and Pirate.....

 Here are the basic designs for my ninja viewing a profile of front of back of the ninja.

Two weeks later after finishing my first concept designs i have now completed the character art work above i have done 2 sets of poses for both Ninja and Pirate showing more detail in the designs.

Concept Work

I decided to leave AB work for this week to focus on Martin as he is a 3rd about to finish so is more logical and respectable to try and get his work completed for his final year.

As displayed above I have given pictures of skeletons in profile views showing underneath them a view of the concept art in these poses showing the complete look. On the last image just above is a pose of the pirate character one out of two designs to be completed.

Draft Designs

After deciding what I am doing with the AB promo I have completed the first design. I have decided to use Toom Boom to do both pieces of work. I have also done the first profile design for the pirate.

 So above you can see a guide line of how my project is looking. First I drew out all of the walking of both Chuck & Chris, then i got a pictures take of the designs put it in to Photoshop and Rotoscoped over it. There was 63 drawings and 9 designs so for me to know how i could split the designs equally to show the birth of each designs growth before forming I divided 63 into 9 giving me 7 so before each drawing appears whole its built up till it reaches 7 before completion.

 As you see here i have now completed the design and this is how it will look after the design finishes animating, after each design has been formed I show you its true form with the colours what make up this design.

 This was my base point to start the Pirate concept after doing some image research I thought to use a skeleton as my base and then I added on top of that to create my first concept.

Above is the first concept design completed for Martin and surprisingly he was happy with it i did make a few changes were there is now only one boot and a prate which is the final design appearing above.

Beginning

So I decided to use 2D art style to show Another Batch designs. Over the weekend I meet with both Chuck and Chris to film them in a basic panel shot of them walking towards the camera, i asked them to were white t-shirt as it will be easier to animate with. I will be using a Rotoscoping Technique to show the growth of designs. So far we have released 9 designs so i will show from the 1st design to most recent.

Meet with Martin through the week and after speak he has asked me to design a concept for a game platform inspired of 'Street Of Rage' and 'Golden Axe'. The game name is called Pirates Vs Ninja, I will draw profile views either front and side or front and back of both characters I will also draw two poses and two level designs of them fighting or them fighting bad guys from the game level.

Idea

So Finally I Found My Client I Have Decided To Work For My Friends Who Own Their Own Clothing Line Named Another Batch As I Am Part Of The Team Thought This Would Be A Good Opportunity To In-twine My Outside Life With My Animation. I wanted to find a way of portray the designs with showing who the designer are while the designs are somehow creating them selves so I remember watching a music video were two guys was walking through different locations and different designs was animating them self on the t-shirts so i wanted to somehow to take this concept and apply it in my own way. Looking on YouTube I found a video were they used stop motion this was another way I could execute this idea. Link Below Of What I Found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVIrR5MzyqQ

I Also Was Lucky Enough to help a third year another opportunity given to me by my tutor (Jared). I meet with a 3rd level content student named Martin Taylor who wanted assistance on concept art for a video game pitch so i plan to meet him and discuss what he requires for the concept work.

Brain Storming

So After Two Weeks I Have Not Been Sure Of The Direction Of What I Want To Take But As Time Passed I Have Discussed My Options With My Tutor What Was Working For The 3rd Years Or Outside Client....
As I Am Approaching My 3rd Year I Want To Do Something What Related To Traditional Animation