Revenant

Another production bible piece that I am working on is a project called Revenant.

For this year in the course we are planning on a bible/concept for a film which we will be working for our third year. I am working with Katie once again to develop this project, which a concept for a horror game.

Ideally for it to be count as a piece of an animated work. We will be animating the cut scene of the game while also developing the actual game mechanics as well. The bible will include contents such as plot, genre , a story line, a section on the game play aspect and other content such as characters, NPCs, assets etc.

The story  to sum it up is about a girl who was accused accused of being a witch and was burnt at the stake. Unknown to the villagers she was indeed a witch and as she was burnt her hand turned into a little deformed minion of which is the main playable character int he game. The minion (named Reaper) 's main goal is to gather body parts to eat and growl stronger and to gather victim's souls in order to bring back his mistress.

Below are some concepts designs for the character. Costumes are still being worked on due to the accuracty of the time period that we want our story to take place in.

Concept for one of the main character in the story. "Victoria"

Concept of perhaps a loading screen art or an asset in the game.

On going projects.

So my main production work right now are concepts designs for our up coming pre-production work.I've been looking more into movies/games art behind the scenes books and they really help inspired me as well as motivate me into exploring more painting techniques.

My main interest now is developing an idea for a potential short film and/or game.
I aim to work with Katie again for this project after seeing how well we've work together in the past. I look forward it.

One of the ideas we have for game is a horror theme. The boogeyman.

A very rough design on the main character which (also the playable character )

The basic idea so far for the plot is like a search and hunt.Gathering items which in this case , you play as the monster and in order to grow and evolve , it must consume human body parts and manifest itself  to look even more scary than when they first start off with.

11 seconds animation

11 second concept for animation

Script :

Character A: "Your job is to break through barriers, not accept blame and say 'wah wah wah'. So what?"

Character B: "I don't cry."

Character A: "You wanna be really great? Have the courage to fail big and stick around."

Character idea -Two headed hydra dragon talking to one another.

I chose to focus on the performance of the character.

·         How the two head react to each other

·         Each head has a different mind and personality ( one will be male and the other female)

·         Movement of the head

Idea of one of the head circling the other’s– character movement

Focus on their expression which I will use live action facial expressing as reference in developing.

Concept storyboard

Getting in gear

The past month have been rather crazy. Organising time and work as well as my travel home for Christmas. My main project for pre-production;  Production bible is almost complete. Hopefully after receiving our feedback we can do further improvements in it.

In regards to my other work I have been working on concept designs for 3rd year animators.
- Toby Twirl (Concept art and background)

Mostly I am told to focus on the lighting and how the colour palettes  will effect the mood of the same background.

-Friends are like umbrellas (Story board/ Character designs/ Style artist
This project I devote most of my time in. My first job was to design the characters. I kept them simple and refereed back to the rough reference I was given as to what  Elizabeth Philippe  ( creator of friends are like umbrella) wanted

An example of a background from one of the section of the film known as the "dream sequence". It is mostly white because of the concept of having the background of being a blank canvas with water colour splashes.

- Lone wolf (Concept art and background)
I was recruited by Lone wolf due to the recommendation from Elliot Richardson(Toby Twirl ) to Yasmin Down (Lone wolf). My work began with colouring drafted background sketches and experimenting with colours for the backgrounds.

some tree designs I did. Focusing on tree root eroding/tiling. almost how the tree root of Angkor Wat grew over the temples.

-Pet Rock ( Minor background concepts)
Due to the about of work I'm working on. I was unable to do much production for pet rock. I was able to help out with minor backgrounds and hopefully will be able to help out with animation tests as well.

- Worlds away (Story boards) 
This was the first project I worked with. Sadly It did not make it through but the concept idea for the film was interesting. I was responsible for the story board. Which was a new experience since this was somewhat of a sci-fi theme.

Under the weather production bible project.

Like for my last previous card exercise. This one was the first set of cards Katie, Charlotte ,James and I got.

The cards were :

-Britains got talent for genre
- the phrase ' Under the weather"

So the story we came up with was a show where contestants were forced to perform under serious weather conditions. We refined the idea and created a more developed concept of life after death and the contestants are souls that must perform infront of judge panels ( which in this case were turned into gods )  to gained a chance of ascending to heaven or fall down to hell.

Katie and I chose to work together for this production bible. James chose to work on the same idea but will put his own spins and interpretations from the original draft.


So here are the character research and designs. I chose to do the designs on Buddah and Anubis. The style that we both went for was Tomi Ungerer, which I've used for my previous story : The Hare

Did some research on the talent show's setting which is the stage.

A mixture of the ancient Colosseum and a theater

  

Creative cards.

Here's a challenge. Creating a concept story from a random word on cards.
The cards I got were:
Character - Hare
Set - Beach hut
Show - Talent show
Artist style - Tomi Ungerer

 At first I was rather worried about my artist since he has done a wide range of style. I could probably pick up his rough lineart style.

The story I've come up with so far is about a hare that somewhat lives in a beach hut restuarant. His owner works in the restaurant in a way but that is not an important info. So the Hare dwells about in the restaurant and one day they host a talent show. The hare looks at a magician performing his trick with a rabbit and wanted to be that rabbit or at least be part of the show. When the Magician does another trick involving him climbing into the box(perhaps a dissapearing act). The Hare thought it would be a good idea to help out with his trick and hops on the stage and did the " cut the box n half trick".

Concept design on the hare with Tomi Ungerer style

Secondary character : The magician and perhaps the little rabbit

15 second of funny

The first group project of the year. Create a 15 second film that will make people laugh. Comedy is always a challenge.

In this group Emily came up with the plot of a little girl and her pet rabbit and taxidermy. Lovely little story.

I provided the group with a rough story board.

a rough animatic was put together by Emily Henshall and sound effects by Georgi Urumov

I've made some short animation test and some concept for the background. Mostly it will be the same through out the film with the exception of the ending scene with the rabbits and in the closet. The background idea so far was to be made in 3D but we are still decided of what to do with the final scene.