Cooperation Project - Design
For this project the brief was to come up with an overall theme in our groups, create a character and background object and animate another person’s design for a walk cycle. For this our group, the Crazy Costume Bash, spoke about different themes that we were interested in. Some ideas were underwater themes to space and magic, in the end we agreed on a costume party theme. This way we could be adventurous with the design, I really like this theme because it was fun to see all the different characters, everyone involved had great ideas and great designs.
For my character I originally wanted to do something based on the Pumpkin people in Over the Garden Wall, this eventually evolved into wanting to do something in the style of the black and white Betty Boop animations, where the characters are very loose looking and have a wavy flow to them.
In the end I took a lot of inspiration from the old Betty Boop animations as I really liked the design of the clown and thought it would be a fun to play with. I ended up taking different aspects from different characters.
These were my firsts sketches put down from the image I had in my head, I feel you can see what came from where with the inspiration. Honestly, I was very happy with this design.
I kept my character black and white just because I liked the look of it really, I was thinking about having splashes of colour but I think this works really well with the character. For my background I decided to do a jack in the box, honestly it was the first thing that popped into my mind. I feel like it fits well with this character.