Right Between the Eyes

First character designs that I am okay with (picture is inked with crow-quill and quickly colored digitally). Because there's three characters, I want to try a basic shape them for them, the brother being a square, the sister a triangle or pentagon, and the cat a circle (and also very fat). The cat's the closest thing to a protagonist in this, and he will suffer the most as he's caught between the fighting siblings.

With the shape theme, I'm thinking the brother's fighting would be forceful and blunt like a hammer or mace, while the sister's would be sharp and piercing like a sword. I'm not sure about having them use real weapons like those, I want to have them use more ridiculous things to try and kill each other. The background is just a bunch of goofing off with Photoshop filters, but I think that's along the idea I want for the abstracted backgrounds. Some of the crazy backgrounds from Ren and Stimpy are also along the idea. It'll work out later.

And sketches of the characters:


I'm gonna wait til much later to worry about model sheets and turnarounds, I expect the designs will change a lot before it even gets close to production.

One to One, Two to Dance

Practicing animation fire, clouds, and lightning, as I want effects to be a big part of the film. Still need more practice with them, and animating these in the context of characters. In addition to these test animations I'm going to be doing a ton of concept art to nail down the visuals. Once I've figured out all the visuals that I want then I'll start on those thumbnails and storyboards and all that fun stuff.

Though this technically wasn't made as concept art for the film, this is roughly where I'd like it to build to:



So that's an airbrush painting, and it's the basic idea, some kind of crazy explosion of energy. Like a volcano wrestling a lightning storm. Also like these absurd Icelandic volcanoes.