Heres a bunch of concept art and development art for my animated short, Piteenchio!
For this short, it really started by just doodling the characters and then the story and plotting came with it. It’s always a lot of fun trying to have a story come together thru doodles in my sketchbook as oppose to going in with a script. The script wasn't even figured out till i was halfway thru animating it. I knew there were certain beats I wanted to hit, but besides that a lot of different ideas were thrown around. Originally, after the ending I wanted to cut back to Gepetto with his perfect son, which was just a puppet version of him, and maybe his puppet wife, who again just looked him but it felt unnecessary. The story was done with the killing of Piteenchio.
If you cnt tell, its so much fun doodling Gepetto, he’s just super rubbery so his face can look nuts, but has enough design staples so you know who it is.
Check out Piteenchio! Here