Narrative: Production Storyboard

Character Design: Week3

During this class, we were asked to create a character from an object in a specific interior. I was given a bedroom, So I listed all the things in a bedroom I could think of. I chose the plug and went to develop it further by trying to find faces on it.

The 2nd task was about bringing a functional object and turning it into a character by getting influence from a character. 

This is my object:

My Character for reference is the Joker, So i started with tracing the shapes the character is made of so I can translate them into my own character:

We can see it's mainly triangles which are relevant to a villain character, so I drew my character using triangles and elements from the Joker:

Narrative: Rough Storyboard

This is a storyboard me and my group worked on to decide the shots and angles we need for the concepts and for the final storyboard.
It was my main reference to develop the environments/concepts ( Train scene + 1980's room) which could be seen from number 1 to 10.

Narrative: Designing the Posters

These are the posters I have designed for the 1980's room, which I will be soon adding to the Final Concepts.

Narrative: 1980's room

These are the developments for the 1980's room.

Final Concepts:

I will soon post the updated concepts as I have added more posters on the wall.

Narrative: Train Scene

Concerning the environment, we split up the work between me and Kym, I did the first two scenes ( Train environment and 1980's room) 

These show the development of the Train Concept:

 Final Concepts

Character Design: Week2

During this session, we have talked about how shapes can affect the character in terms of his personality, for instance, circle and round shapes evoke softness and friendliness thanks to their soft roundness, Rectangular shapes communicate balance and strength and Triangular shapes refer to aggressiveness and danger due to their sharp points.

I believe this play a very important role on the human's mind and is very important in order to create interesting and successful characters.



I was given a character ( villain) and had to identify the shapes used and then change them in order to make him look less villain/ friendlier.
We notice the shapes used are mainly triangles which refer to aggressiveness.

I changed these shapes to more round and softened the edges and the pointy curves to obtain this:

For this exercise below, we were asked to choose a character we like and simplify it if it looks very realistic or make look realistic if it's simple.

The Character I used below is between simple and realistic. 

I drew him first then chose to simplify him.

This was a very useful lesson and will help me when designing my characters in the future.