Marlos Design

Last week, our group got stuck into the design process of Marlo. With only one week to complete our individual visions of the character in, it was quite a hard task. And knowing that only one design was going to get picked made the time scale harder.

A visiting tutor, Ewan Green, gave a few presentations on character design, and helped in the studio with the process, and, since our own tutor wasnt around, his guidance was much appreciated. Thanks Ewan :)

Here's some of our work from the week. Please excuse some of my scannings...

These are some thumbnail sketches of the general poses Marlo may find himself in. (Lilly)

And some expressions (above: Lilly) (below: Sarah)

We also fleshed out some fun character poses from the thumbnails:

Claire

Lilly

Claire

Sarah

Lilly

Claire

Sarah

Claire

A model turn around sheet was also required for the character "pitch" we had to do (in which we basically showed our work and the rest of the class chose the character design)

 Heres an example of Lillys turn around. I havent yet scanned in the sheet for the character that was chosen. And I also dont have any of our 4th team member Charlies work :( I'll hopefully get that soon and post asap!

Enjoy!

New Blog

With a new semester comes a new project, and with a new project comes a lot of work. So i decided to create this blog for others, and ourselves, to keep track of whats going on in the land of Marlo the Magician. We'll hopefully update this blog regularly with new and exciting developents in character design, line tests, animatics etc etc. So check back regularaly!

Here is a general outline of the brief:
"Your group’s character is dressing or undressing when he or she notices something unexpected about his or her appearance or his or her clothing. Alternatively, something unexpected could happen externally to the character, ie, he or she hears a noise, sees a light or object. Whatever the unexpected incident is, it should be relevant in some way to his or her back story. After the incident, the character’s focus has changed – his/her body language has changed, his/her emotional state has changed."

- Claire