Concept

Art

Character design:

The Cat

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coloured in

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Here are some rough cat sketches. I produced them at the start of the character design process. I traditionally sketched them and imported onto Photoshop to sketch digitally. After that I chose the 2 sketches I liked and combined it, to what it is on the slide show below.

Here I filled in different colour schemes for the cat, and also used this opportunity to test different lighting and shades. Warm and cool shadows or both of them mixed together. I even changed the colour of the lines to see a difference.

So I went with the pastel yellow fur cat to the top right corner. This could also be used as a reference material if I feel I need to use it when animating.

The Baker

Even with the baker sketches, except this time instead of practising I experimented with different looking chefs/bakers, all using references from my bakers mood board. I used different body shapes, as well as features of a chef. I really liked two of them, so i combined the design together to get what I now have. At this point I liked the baker a lot and wasn't so difficult to animate. It wasn't too realistic nor cartoon, something from an animation film.

To the side I coloured in with different base colours, following part of the colour scheme. I also used different lighting and shading to match with the colours. I had to keep in mind that the character couldn't blend into the background, so I constructed a layout concept and then decided on the blue shirt one.

baker sketches

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baker colour

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Finalised design

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Finalised cat sketch. While I was finalising I decided to add a collar, this defined his fat. I also took in consideration that it would fit his colour scheme rather than just match the baker or the layout.

Finalised baker sketch. I found him more difficult to draw than the cat. The animation might not capture much of his personality than the cat. Drawing his hand was way easier than other hand types, which are more elegant.

Layout design:

Sketches

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I practised a lot in this bit. I sketched different equipment to get an idea of the prop design. Then when it came to drawing the kitchen, I sketched few floor plans, which one would suit the baker or which one would be clustered enough so the cat can ruin it easily. Then it came to roughly drawing the isometric view, which was fairly difficult. At this point I was sure I'm sure this is the layout I wanted.

Digital Concept

Then it came to creating the digital layout. The first is an uncoloured sketch, experimenting with different line art colours. I did all of these in Photoshop like the rest of the art work I've done. I'm very inferior to perspective and layouts, so this was definitely a challenge throughout.

I thought about keeping the backgrounds white with coloured line just like this. Which was similar to an animating that I analysed in my research.

This is the coloured digital concept. A bright golden warm setting. I did this as a test to see if the warm colour would fit the backgrounds. Just as my research shows, it's fairly similar to the animations I have analysed.

This is the finalised kitchen layout (with no filters like the last one). This is how the kitchen is going to look like for the majority of the animation.

Storyboards:

The first 2 storyboards are the ones I'm going to animate while the other two are scraps. They just seemed a lot more dragged and boring while the new ones have a lot more of the comedy element in it. I will aim for this to be around 30 seconds if not more than that.

Promotional Poster:

Finally to conclude this page with the promotional poster. Using thumbnail sketches to decide on which composition would fit well and attract the audience. I went with choice B.

This is the final poster digitally done on Photoshop (the thumbnails were done on Photoshop as well). Using the same drawing process I usual use, instead this time I experimented with adding a filter. This image will be printed out in a larger print hopefully and stuff on my presentation board, in time for grading as well as for the end of year exhibition.