Lifting tower - initial ideas

As the lifting tower project has been briefed, we decided to form a group of 3 to work on the animation, as a part of the extended brief. Firstly I went on for a research of a brief history of the lifting tower, view and got inspired by the animation made in previous year. We planned to make a story board by each of us, and chose the best one to animate.Based on what Jimmy suggested, I would also like to make color panels for the storyboards while it is one of the most important element to decide before start making the animation.

Loopdeloop - October - Final outcome

Due to the time consuming of the challenge, I decided to use Photoshop for this animation, and do further experiments with TV paint in the main animation for the extended project.

In order to get the style I want for this short loop, I experimented with the brushes in Photoshop, where I found one of the basic pencil tool fitted perfectly. So I then altered the thickness and settings for the pencil in order to create different textures which can be matched together but differs the cat and the plant in the loop.

I would like to explore with the brushes and the settings for different textures, which helps both with making animation and producing character design sheet, concept art etc. The next step and one of the main purpose for me of the brief is to learn TV paint and to improve character dynamics.

Here is the final outcome of the animation, which I have submitted to the loopdeloop challenge at the end of the October.

Loopdeloop - October - Pre-production

For the initial concept, I want to express the theme with a scene of the character staring at something he/she loves, to present love with expressions. I did some simple character concepts of a human and a cat. I want the loop related to the theme as close as possible, therefore I decided on the cat because of the stereotype that cats like eating fishes.

After deciding on the character, I refined him in Photoshop and did a storyboard which defines the narrative. During the consideration of the story, I wanted to link the start and the end to make a reasonable loop, therefore the outcome is as follows, short and simple.

Character Design Challenge - October

The theme of the month of CDC is devil and demons. I went for a brief research, got inspired and done a few sketches with pencil, I chose the following one in order to practice the ability of conveying message through the facial expression, and to practice paiting the texture of skin. I continued to work on the character design digitally in photoshop, here are the screenshots, the final outcome and the published work in the challenge page.