We chose to work on this brief to satisfy both of our creative ambitions/needs as it were, with eva designing the backgrounds for the animation and with me making a focus on character designs. With our roles assigned from the get go without any ideas thrown out or pushed around the table we were able to say ' this is my role within this collaborative project' and be satisfied that there was no confusion over what work would be designated to one another.
Whilst in charge of the character design I also took on the role of lead animator and assembly of all the different components of the project.
So for this project we first looked at the theme that was given on the show-me-the-animation website which was 'Utopia' and decided we would interpret this very literally by coming up with a landscape/environment that would embody this idea of utopia - idyllic scenes with bright colours. We took inspiration for how the scene might progress by looking at the animations ' SAUSAGE ' on Vimeo and the music video for Mr scruff's 'sweet smoke'.
The inspiration that these animations provided us with gave us the idea for the scene to look really innocent and transition smoothly through any different aspects that we may incorporate into the piece.I first of all had to wait till Eva had designed the landscape for me to have some kind of bearing on how my approach to character design should complement her work on the landscape (Above).
Above is a preliminary sketch by Eva which I then tried to complement with my character designs.
As my sketches progressed they began to take a more shape based form. which I felt fit with Eva's design better than the line based designs first approached this project with.
this is because i see the landscape having smaller, full bodied characters dotted around it and these larger facial designs emanating from the smaller full bodied characters as a kind of insight into what they may be doing at that time/ show the mood of the people living in the landscape - or 'utopia'.
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