Sunday, March 4, 2012

Progress on my Film: Silly

Since my last post I have met with the CSULB Director of the Animation about twice. I have storyboarded 3 scenes for my film. I found a great book to assist me in my research about UPA studios. It's  Cartoon Modern. (blog located here: http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/) Where am I now? I believe I have found my main characters. I still need to name them.  I've storyboarded about 3 scenes and have done tons of research. At first I thought the design theory of UPA studios was simple and easy to grasp. I was entirely wrong. In the process of designing a character in a 1950's graphic cartoon style, I marvel at how the designers of Unicorn in the Garden or Rooty toot toot designed their characters. What i thought would take minutes is really taking hours of studying, drawing and redrawing. I have to understand the elements of design to really capture the essense of the 1950's design style. I started by playing around with shapes then moved to doing head studies. When drawing  the heads, I had to remember to NOT to build a character based on circlar soft shapes. That was a challenge, especially with designing the body. Im happy with the Male characters body, not so much with the female character.

I'm in the process of naming my main girl and guy.
Playing around with shapes


Head Study
Head Study



Body Study

4 final designs for the Female Main Character

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