Friday, 7 October 2016

Character Design: Morticia Addams/Clown

My challenge for this character design class was to draw a clown with the personality of Morticia Addams. First I narrowed down traits I associate with Morticia Addams; gothic, sensual and elegant. I then imagined these traits in the form of a clown.
After talking to Justin, we discussed how to make the design more elegant and feel more like Morticia.
I tried to replicate Morticia's iconic dress using big, baggy trousers and pointed shoes, and Justin suggested having her hair swept back as above, so it was both over the top and clown-like, while still being elegant.

Sunday, 2 October 2016

Character Project: Initial Ideas + Changes After Discussion With Alan

Scrapped wildcards: Fantasy World, circus.

Initial ideas:

Retirement home: 
  • 2 old people -- friends or a couple.
Old man in wheelchair with broken leg (his own fault), wearing clothing one would expect on a much younger man. The wheelchair and leg cast are decorated wildly with stickers, badges and paint. The friend/wife of the man now spends her time wheeling him around in the wheelchair, somewhat thankful for it, as his lack of mobility surely means he will get up to less mischief (it doesn't).

Event:
  • Business - A group of ferrets is called a business -- ferrets having a meeting? It could happen.
Spaceship:
  • Older space traveller with apprentice.
  • Old astronaut with trainee.
Older astronaut/traveller is disillusioned and unimpressed with space, has a space suit covered in badges saying things like "Gravity is a myth. The earth sucks" and "I have personal space issues". He's working with an apprentice/trainee, who is in awe of space and finds the old man's attitude annoying. The old man is in it for the money, while the apprentice/trainee is in it to make new discoveries.

Friday, 30 September 2016

Narrative Project: Character Designs - Sketches


Today I began sketching out ideas for how the main character of our group project would look. 
See a more detailed post along with Becky's sketches on Hecate Productions.

Maya Tutorial - Poses Continued

Original pose
Edited Pose
New Pose