Storyboard

Working on the animatic

I have started on the rough animatic. Started with the first scene, taking a rough design of part of the living room, and the female character is in the process of cleaning.

The female character then goes over to the cabinet next to her to clean and she sees the photo of her and her husband on their wedding day. I wanted to have the part where she picks up the photo zoomed in on more so because I want my film to have the same type of style as a graphic novel or motion comic I thought Id create a type of split screen, having the zoomed in part slide in, in comic styled frames using the positioning key frames.

I also done a quick rough scene of the girl blinking and looking sad, which is a scene after she looks at she photo.

As well as that I have done the scene for the animatic of when the male character opens the door and comes into the kitchen, taking the design I have already come up with. With a split screen sliding in over the top which focuses on his face.

Thumbnail storyboard

These are the thumbnails Iv come up with. A rough storyboard that is mainly for me to use and understand so I know whats happening. Im currently working on a presentation storyboard which can be used for other people to understand.

Complete Female Character

This is my complete female character fully coloured, which hopefully I wont have to change because I really like the design and the colours, the technique I used to colour it and try and give it that graphic novel type design.

50's Research

Even though Iv kind of changed the story line of my film it will still be set in the 50's so what I had done and have kept doing is research things from the 50's and collected a lot of imagery such as:

50's Fashion and Hairstyles:

50's Homes:

Caroline also told me to watch 'Mad Men' because that is based in the 50's/60's and it has helped me a lot.

Concept Backgrounds

These are some different designs of some of the scenes/backgrounds that I want in the film. I'm basically just looking at the design and colour at the moment because the colours are very important in this film because the female character is going to be kind of camouflaged in the kitchen, against the cupboards etc.

New Male Character Model sheet

I have done the same for the male character as what I done with the female, just researched and came up with a new design, making the character more plumper and round which I feel gives him more character, and I really like this design.

New Female Character model sheet

My film is still going to be set in the 50's so Iv researched more for the characters, what people would wear back then and what hair styles they had, and so came up with a new design that I'm really happy with and I feel this female design fits with the male character Iv designed and the rough concept backgrounds Iv designed.

New Idea

I arranged a meeting with Leonie to have a chat and see what I should and can build on in my final film, possibly change and work more at. After speaking to Leonie Iv changed the story line but kept the same message  about a woman sort of being a slave to her husband, but its going to be more of a domestic abuse type story line  where there will just be scene after scene of him in her face, shouting etc, and you see in their shadows and things the abuse, so its kind of hidden, because I don't want to actually show any physical abuse. The female character is kind of going to have a voice over, throughout the film, saying how she is feeling. This is the rough storyboard:

New Army Female and Enemy Design

After showing my work to my lecturers Caroline and Leonie, neither of them seemed to like my designs and ideas too much, so I went back and came up with a new design for my female character:

And also the Enemy character:

Enemy Character

This is the design of the Enemy character I came up with that the female character would be fighting against in the army, but he would be basically representing her husband in a way.

Male character Model sheet

This is the Male character design that I came up with which I really like .

Female Model sheet

This is the model sheet I came up with for the female character, when she is back at home as this house wife.

Male character rough designs

Iv designed a few rough male characters and I have chosen which one Im really happy with and like and I am currently working on the model sheet for the character.
Here are the few rough designs:

Again with this character I also want it to be less 'cartoony' because it just doesn't look right to me and I don't feel happy with that style, so sticking to the style I wanted to do to begin with. Also keeping in mind that its based around sometime in the 50's so I had to research the fashion and style of the clothes the men wore around that time and I loved the idea of the braces, shirt and tie, your typical sort of 50's business man.

Colour Palette

This is just a quick colour palette I have made for the female character when she is in her army clothes, I will make a more professional one than this soon.

 

Final female design

I chose which design for the final female character I was happy with and liked the most and I then created a model sheet for the female character when shes in the army:

When it comes to making my final film, pretty much all the shots and scenes iv planned out and the characters will be zoomed in on, mostly on the top half of their body or face, which will then make it easier for me to add more detail with the colours on the face for example, unlike on this model sheet where because they are smaller it makes it harder to do more detail and see more detail. 

Rough designs

These are some designs I came up with for the Female Character, going back to the way I wanted to design my character in the first place.

 

I decided I wanted a less 'cartoony' type character. I wanted the colours of the character to give a lot of detail, and also whilst looking at comic/graphic novels, I noticed that the characters are very square, and are drawn with mostly straight lines like this:

 With the style I want and the way I want to use the colours, this is what Im looking to go for:

This is a piece of unfinished artwork that iv been working on thats nothing to do with this project but just to show how I want to use the colours, I may make my character a little less detailed than this with the colours because there is a set time for me to get this done but this is the direction I want to go with my character in terms of colours. 

Character designs

Here are a couple more character designs I have come up with for the female character but again my lecturer Caroline did not like these, so Im going back to the more stylized drawing I use to do because thats the way I wanted my characters to be like in the first place, but with so much research and inspiration you can tend to go off track and with different people telling you different things, im just going to stick to what I planned to do in the first place.

I first started with the shape of n hour glass:

 I then drew a basic outline over the top:

Drew the main outline over the top:

 And then coloured it in, and done the same for when she changes to go into the Army:

Thumbnail storyboard

 This is my thumbnail storyboard I have roughly done, so I know what will be happening in each scene and each shot. I'm now in the middle of creating a rough storyboard from which people should hopefully be able to tell whats happening in that one, along with the script, description of whats happening and dialogue if any.

character research

 One of the things my lecturer told me to look at for character design is 'Tank Girl'. This is very much the style i am looking for.

Another thing I thought of when thinking about character design was the character for Gorillaz, I was thinking of looking at this style more so for the male and zombie characters.