Character Design Week 1

Hands down, this first week of character design has been one of the most productive weeks of my education so far. Over the course of 4 days, I, on my own, in pairs, and in groups with various other people, have developed ideas for/and produced: 1) A splatter paint with various characters on it as in introdution to using "random methods" for inspiration ; 2) A short film explaining something about Danish culture using silhuette cut-outs ; 3) A wall full of Collage Zombie Designs made up of webimages and pictures I took myself in the Town of Viborg with my cellphone ; 4) Three thouroughly explored concept design for the audiobook fairytale, Brave Molly.

These are my designs for Brave Molly:

This was how I broke free from my own and other predetermined styles. I cut up splatter paintings in order to make a collage with random splashes of ink, thus getting finding interesting shapes.

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These are my Zombie Designs:

It is an example of another metod we used, taking advantage of our senses and the subconcious mind - a form of pareidolia, seeing faces in random objects.

Colour Practice

I've been studying colours for the past week. I can't say I ever got a hold of using a paint brush but I learned a lot about colours so I now have an understanding of yet another gear in the big machine that is film production.

Layout

This week we've had three different layout assignments (all of them are listed below. We worked in different mediums, pencil only; pencil + Photoshop; all of the afforementioned + After Effects). One of the assignments was to make a long shot scene in an imaginary movie about Bonnie and Clyde. The scene should show the couple's car coming to a hold after the police shootout which killed them. I thought that the start of this scene, pretty idyllic, would serve as a nice contrast to the big action-packed shootout scene that supposedly came before.

Bonnie and Clyde layout:

Batman layout:

Iron Giant layout: