Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Video Research

NO CATS OR HUMANS WERE HARMED IN THIS VIDEO!

He received treats and his favourite toy afterwards.

When designing the wolf character David pointed out that wolves mostly use their toes to walk rather than the whole foot. I decided to see how they would walk by looking up Fantastic MR Fox and my cat.

The first video I had help with lift him up and walk 2 steps.



The second video I asked my boyfriend to walk on his tiptoes to see what a human would look like when walking. From the legs it looked difficult as the knee does most of the work to move the legs. So the shin looks stiff and rigid. I did ask him to walk normal so it must have been difficult to do so.



Lastly I got my cat to walk normal. It was difficult as he kept on bashing his head on the camera, but I finally got footage and looking at it, you can see the leg work of the knees when walking. He pushes his back legs to come forward in running action. 


If I make the wolf have his knee bent when in standing position, then he can walk normally on his hind legs.

I will have a character sheet ready by Thursday hopefully. Again I say no animals or humans were harmed in these videos.





Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Character Design UPDATE

So I have updated the bear and I am finally happy with the result.I got my flow back with the drawing tool on graphics tablet as I have stuck with the pen tool for too long.

The first design looked ok but no personality. The pen tool made the bear too rigid and stiff.

First design looked too bland

Character sheet and new design

I wanted to use a character sheet to show certain emotions and how large the bear is compared to the main character. I still stuck to the small head and large claws.

It has some sort of my design mixed with a bit of Tim Burton. The bear looks cartoonish, which is what I aim for and has more of a flow with the lines. I didn't add colour yet and just kept it black and white at the moment.

I hope to do more characters like this design.