Winter Robin

The film is continuing at a pace! Here's my little winter robin as a teaser.

I'm sort-of doing this film in the wrong order as I didn't design any of the characters before starting production - I've just been working off my storyboards. Today I designed and built my main character so I'm sure you'll see him soon! It's very exciting!

Film Countdown

Happy December everyone! One month exactly until I release my new film. First I have to make it though! The first still of the film:

And so the countdown begins!

Animatic

An update - my storyboards, of which I shared a few last week, are now an animatic with music. It's very exciting!

Shot list compiled, colour coding sorted, I'm ready to get to work.

I'll share more things about this project soon, I just don't want to spoil anything. My goal is to finish it for New Year!

Winter is Coming!

Autumn is the best season and November the best month as far as I'm concerned! A photo from my living room window yesterday afternoon - the first November afternoon of this year - may there be many more like it!

With it being November I feel that I can now mention the 'C' word - Christmas! I've started storyboarding a special festive piece of animation. I'm putting the other film on the backburner for a short time and concentrating on this one. More updates soon!

End of the Day's Work

I finally bought myself a copy of the incredible graphic novel 'Blacksad' this weekend - it's been on my amazon wishlist forever! Everything about it is totally amazing, and I've already started pulling what I like into my pre-production for this film. This background is heavily inspired by a panel! Anyway, here's Dad and Daughter going home at the end of the day's work.

Self-Portrait

A painting from the weekend - I was trying to see if I could draw myself in the style of the characters I'm designing for the film and I got a little carried away! The difference you see between this self-portrait and the one topping this blog is 10 months of artistic development and hair growth! I'm also continunig my inktobers. To the right is a study of the main character from Marvel's 'Daredevil' series that's currently on Netflix - I'm completely hooked!

Background Tests

I've been having some fun this week trying to nail a style for the backgrounds for this film idea. I know that I want shapes and colours to be the focus, but I need to decide how graphically I'm taking that as I do like the fluid style of animation that I used for the sneak test a couple of posts ago.

These would be stills from the beginning and end of the film - in the first still, she's just fallen in love with a boy who lives across the river. In the last still she has to find a way to get to him and maybe a barrel from her apple stall might do...