LAUAN504 : Weekly blog for week of 12/2/18

For the Competition study task, our group decided to go with the Beano Brief, more specifically , redesigning Billy the Cat as a female characters, as it was the task that relates to our main interest the most ( me especially as I'm focused on character design) . As the task required also producing a piece of narrative animation with only a month of work time, we aimed to be as quick and efficient with the preproduction stages as possible, including character design , environments and storyboarding, and in it we have achieved success. As the target audience were in the age from 10-12 , we decided to take alot of inspiration from shows from the early 2000s that were popular with both kids and young teens, mainly My life as a Teenage robot, as well as some style example from Panty and Stocking. We found that as this was a "hero" character , having strong dynamic shapes is essential , while keeping it as simple as possible for the benefits of the animation as well as creating a style thats pop and draws in a younger crowd. After finishing that stage, environments were created to follow the same style of the character which we were really happy with right from the first couple of tests. After that was the storyboard which we settled with creating a Opening sequence for the show that would last around 40s or so. In general , the first week has been extremely productive and we're looking to start animation by the following week.

Break down of shapes

 Finished character

 
  Storyboard