Dragon Bait and Animate

After changing my idea (and with the possibility that it might change further), I looked at roughing out a character that I could use as my protagonist. I started off with an inspiration board using images I'd been collecting for the past few weeks. This included a little of the environment, but mostly of the character, focusing on the character's role and outfit. From here, I sketched up some designs just using pencil and paper to see what kind of route I wanted to go down. At this stage I wanted to just keep the body shape semi-realistic without pushing the forms too much but as I keep developing the character, I'd like to see what I can do with shapes and silhouettes. In hindsight, I don't like the protagonist carrying a gun of any description as I think this takes away from the idea of her being a helper and trying to find the 'cure'.  I tidied up the lines a little in Photoshop before adding some rough colour to help work out where I wanted ...

The last week has been spent on trying to further solidify my idea in my mind. I spoke with my sister about the rough outline of my idea and as we were talking about a post-apocalyptic environment she suggested that I root the environment in home. For example, when was the last time we saw a nuclear holocaust in Dundee? So I looked into Dundee landmarks and picked out a few I liked: The Discovery Ship The McManus Gallery Law Hill The New Waterfront I think it would be particularly interesting to take one of these locations and create a run down, overgrown version where my character could be seen exploring. I also looked up different concept arts that have used the overgrown, post-apocalyptic setting before: The Last of Us Fallout 3 Fallout 4 Horizon: Zero Dawn Metro 2033 As well as thinking about the environment for my short film, I decided to take a step back and return to the roots of the story. After today's class we discussed the use...

Today we were asked to bring in images, videos, anything that inspired what we wanted to achieve for our final project. So I spent the weekend going through some of my Pinterest boards as well as adding heavily to them. We've also been tasked with creating a character in 2D to then be created in 3D and it seems that this would be a good opportunity to create the character to be in my final project. After days of ideas swirling through my head I kept coming back to a post-apocalyptic, nuclear wasteland setting with a sole Wanderer making her way though the land. I wanted to focus on a theme of isolation and nature reclaiming the land. I found loads of images related to my ideas and I'll share a few below as well as link to my Pinterest boards for Post-Apocalypse and Inspiration . I've already mentioned before that music is a massive inspiration to me and there are a few tracks that come to mind when I think of post-apocalypse and luckily enough, I have a very...