LEVEL 6 BLoG

spacey proj

[moeshakkellaway]

I have settled on the idea of a space theme for this current project. I created this character, based on my approaches to drawing humans. I wanted her to still look slightly human to have more of an empathy factor. I particularly like the use of three eyes so that she does appear different to the norm. I also jokingly drew characters (mushoroom and bean) from previous projects - which I think would be fun if they had a cameo within my animation. It also sparked my idea for the aliens to each have a sidekick each. These could be relative to their personalities or their home planets. Joel enjoyed the idea of the use bubbles so I would like to incorporate them and the sidekicks would be a good use for this. The bubbles would also compliment and mirror the circular qualities of the planets and space.

[moeshakkellaway]

First few sketchbook pages -  getting to grips with people / starting character ideas

[moeshakkellaway]

I also recently discovered illustrator, Cheyenne Barton on both instagram and youtube and found myself drawn to her loser ‘noodle’ like humans and realised that this approach would be less stressful for learning to draw humans alongside animating and having to repeat drawings over and over and in various poses.

https://www.instagram.com/chey.barton/

[moeshakkellaway]

LooKiNG FoR iNSPo

I took to pinterest to find inspiration for a basis for my project and what the main thing alongside characters that I wanted to animate. 

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/moeshakellaway/oodles-n-doodles/ 

[moeshakkellaway]

iNiTiAL iDEAS

After talking through feedback from my pre-major project, and under the recommendation of both Joel and Richard - I decided to continue down the path of a fictional narrative. 

“This highly attractive visual language you have developed is very engaging and appropriate for non-fiction outcomes. You are encouraged to pursue the more playful aspects of this submission in MP unit, as towards the end of the book the page format becomes rather predictable and overloaded with information.”

Having had such a positive amount of feedback I started to think about the possibilities of animating and having moving image as my Final Major Project outcome. I had had a fun time creating a cheeky world full of beans within second year and knew from previous feedback how I could improve my animating skills and techniques. 

This was also suggested by tutors:

“You could consider bringing some elements of this into animation, or even gif format, in order to broaden your repertoire but the key area of focus should be developing characters that will illuminate your content.”