The reason I've been looking at these was because I decided to re-design my character. As I said before, I felt like my character looked far too similar to the young Flint Lockwood from 'Cloudy'. I tried going through several other looks and styles, but I found myself attached to my old design. So what I decided to do was to keep the same style and feel to my character, but just change his head shape and face, make him slightly more detailed, to make him easier to work with in 3D.
After several pages of trial and error I came up with a design a really liked, and found it easier to draw than my previous design, it also felt a lot more original, and fit the profile I had written a week earlier much better. In essence it is still the same character as I had designed before, just tweaked, more appropriate for the project and my story, and easier and funner to work with.
This week I have also been finalising my story idea and script. After brain storming for a while I came up with all the bits that were missing from my pirate story, and tweaked the bits that I had already got so it will flow better when it comes to animating, and make more sense as a story. I will start drawing up thumbnails for this soon, to get an idea for poses and timing etc.
Also me and two course mates, Jamie and Nick have been working on a questionnaire to send out to local primary schools for the children to answer.
We wanted to make a questionnaire that would spark children's imaginations, so we could have some sort of insight as to how children see and think about the world, and what their priorities are in life at this young age (4-7).
After an evening of brain storming we came up with many questions, but decided we wanted to keep it to around 10 questions, so to not bore the children. We also decided it would be a great idea for the last question to ask them to draw something, so once the previous 9 questions have sparked their imagination, then they can put something down on paper that shows there imagination in a visual form, rather than just text.
It took us another evening of brainstorming to decide on a drawing question, we had thought to ask them to draw an invention they would like to see, but we decided it was too broad of a question, and children may struggle to think of anything original, we also thought about asking to draw something from a dream they have had, but again, we thought it may be too deep.
In the end we agreed on asking them to draw what they think they will look like in 20 years time and what they will be doing.
Our thinking for this was that we thought it would be interesting to see what the children think of themselves and where they think their lives are heading while they are till in primary school.
We are yet to write up the final questionnaire, we have all the questions finalised, it just needs putting together. I hope to have this done by the end of this week and have contacted several schools.
This next week I am starting to model my character in Maya, as well as start on a clay sculpt of him. I am also going to do Facial expressions, and key poses for my animation, which will help me with storyboarding.
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