CINEMATIC :: 14/03/16 - Plans for the week

After meeting up with the group today, we discussed our plans for the week, which are finalizing our storyboards, and thinking about a date for filming.  We are expected to have an animatic completed by next Monday, so a lot of our designs need to be finalized so that we can put a storyboard together.

My goal for this week is to finalize my creature and figure out the plates for our Matte Painting layout.  Feedback on the artistic impression that I had drawn over the weekend was positive, and people seemed to really like the color palette, so it might be one that I stick to for future attempts.

I plan to use Hamish's plate method to come up with a few compositions myself, and aim to do this tomorrow or Wednesday.

In the meantime though, I have begun to play around with my character and try to solidify its movement and expressions.  Thinking about the dark world transition came to mind today, and I have drawn upon some previous dream images as inspiration for how my spirit might change.  Both of these images are from 2012.

With these in mind, this is where I am with my character sheet:

The spirit's expressions reflect the transition from a calm spirit world to a dark one, the small sequence is a potential transformation it undergoes as the world changes.  The sketchy images were just me getting a better feel for the character and how it is shaped and moved, and the bottom two images are what I would like to use for its model sheet - they just need to be cleaned up and finalized once I've run it past the group.

I'd like to tackle layout plans for the environment before I attempt to figure out the colors for this creature, as how the environment looks plays a big part in how the creatures will appear in order to contrast it.