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When delving a bit deeper into finding out who the character designers of The Owl House are i came across the artist Matthieu Cousin, Matthieu is also know for his character design work for the show OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017-2019) by Ian Jones-Quartey, i found a various amount of different sketch and concept ideas which will defiantly help when designing my character.
I found this page of sketches i made when trying to imagine what the witch might look like when riding ion the broomstick from a back view, this was for the scene when the witch flys over the water towards the island.
Voice actress
With the help from Robby (a fellow student in my class) he was able to find a very suitable voice actress to voice the witch on our. We have rented out a sound recording booth at Uni and gave her our scripts. She was amazing and very talented, i had great fun helping to direct her to what sort of dialogue and sounds we might need for the different students projects including my own, She was extremely skilled at being able to understand what i meant and amazing ability to envision the emotions of the character. I without a shadow of a doubt would definitely ask her to voice act again plus I will recommend her to anyone in need for a voice actress, in fact i have asked if she would like to voice my deer character for my other project and she agreed.
I find it very magical that voice actors and actresses can bring life to a character with their personalities and skills and look forward to meeting equally talented people later in my career.
Here is a finish coloured and lined scene for my collaborative project. i am super happy with how this turned out especially the colour of the characters and buildings. i did not use any reference for the background i completely created it from my imagination and I added a few more mice to create more of a gathering of them. I even added a highlight node to the characters to give them a bit more lighting and shadowing beneath the characters to ground them to the scene. This scene really encapsulates the meaning of the idiom I chose, and I look forward to animating it shortly.
Next i need to think about the colour of the suits the rabbits are wearing and the possible different colours of the mices fur. For the suits i search online for 1940′s gangester suits and came accross the ones above and as for the mice i searched for different coloured fancy mice and got the picture above for my references
Here is the rough sketch i did of the initial design of the rabbit and mice characters i tried to utilize the design from the images posted previously plus the scene from the film The Goodfellas.
When i was thinking of what my rabbit characters might look like i came across the first image drawn by an artist called ipoke, i really like the shape of the eyes of the character and the way the character stares so i will try to utilize this in my characters, I am not sure who drew the second image but i came across it when i was looking for character design ideas and i really like the way the character is designed especially the line work. Second i need to think about what animals would the rabbits be selling their contraband products to. i am not sure why but i decided to do mice, i remembered a drawing of a mouse character drawn by artist named SophieCabra which i really like so i decide to map my mice characters of this design.
Collaborative Project
When i think about the idiom that i chose and how it was described to me i immediately thought of doing a scene with some gangster rabbits selling dodgy things to other animals but not in the home town, first i had to think how could i show the audience that these rabbits we not just selling things on their own high street and i needed to think of a theme. When i brainstormed i thought back to the 1990′s film The Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese, in the film there is a scene of two lads selling cigarettes out the back of a car and after watching the scene again i fell compelled to recreate it with my gangster rabbit characters.
