Research sources list:
I googled more references in order to create moodboards to help me throughout my iterative design work as well as research into narrative and storytelling via the internet.
Development
This week my character design has started to take a lot more shape and structure, Instead of trying to create a character without much thought, this week I’ve really questioned myself on why her appearance is this way, should it be different due to how she’s living, how do I make her appear young. These are elements that will really work to set the scene and of course display my character in her truest form. Through looking at reference images I’ve been able to start planning my designs around her age and the character design elements needed in order to reflect this age, something that I wasn’t aware I was doing wrong at the beginning. After talking to Jon about the overall message or moral I wanted my animation to convey we realised that it would be around the idea of ‘Balance’, a balance between humanity, nature and technology, which would be clearly communicated through challenges my character will face and the ways she is successful in overcoming them.
Strengths
My strengths this week within this project have been that both my character and story have come along way, to a point now where I can start to storyboard them. My character design is starting to slowly but surely represent the character that I imagined being in my animation, having considered her cultural background, environment and age. My fable idea has been refined where I’m now excited to start creating more designs and play around with compositions and backgrounds as I now know how I can clearly communicate my message.
Areas for Development
I know my aim was to try and have a storyboard done this week, although that has happened I will get this done over the weekend so I can start to consider timings, how long each scene needs to last and how I want the overall animation to look. I will also over the next week get my designs for all my characters finished and hopefully be able to have some rough character sheets finished along with some designs and drafts for the backgrounds. While I’m working and drawing I’m going to listen to music that could potentially feature in my animation and see what works and feels best.
CCH-Animation Degree 