Category: MDS 2

Background Dev: 2

My second background environment is my “Colin’s Donut Shop” daytime scene.

Background Dev: 1

Started developing my backgrounds for Pamela and Colin. In doing this, I’ve started looking at night scenes and thinking about how to incorporate nature into the scene. This, as well as working on how I can adapt the style of the characters into the style of their environments. The following shows my progress work, thus…

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5. Stylistic Inspo

The Cartoon Network show, “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack!” is where I got my main stylistic inspiration from for Pamela (snail) and Colin (donut). Flapjack facial expressions & body movements Mr Knuckles colour

4. Pamela the Snail

Bringing Pamela the Snail to her digitised form of greatness! I’m really happy with her and the style choice at the moment. I added a grain gradient to her face and body as a finishing touch to make her look just a smidge more professional but also keeping the “messiness” of the style I’ve chosen.

4. Facial Expressions – Snail

I’ve started digitising and playing around with Pamela, the snail’s, facial expressions and gestures. Because she’s quite a kind but very sensitive, naive character, all of her facial expressions are exaggerated in style and composition. On the flip side, one thing I found fun yet a little challenging (in a good way) was getting the…

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2. Initial Character Presentation

Welcome to my very strange character development world. I need to just work a bit more on the details of both premises. Chosen Characters: Pamela the Snail & Colin the Donut Thelma, Velma & Elma Godmother Grannies & Raphael the Giraffe

1. Character Inspo d.

Stylistic Consideration and Creature Development I really love this odd, somewhat mystical style of designing. I plan to go quite creative in my approach to my animated characters, their abilities and environments.