The Elephant

Here he stands finished in all of his glory :) Ready to be rigged so I can debug/ fix the mesh as needed.

More Background Illustrations

Here are the newest sketches for the environments. Great stuff from my illustrator Kirsten, very beautiful!

Story Intervention

I have been meeting a lot recently with some teachers discussing the story and boards to make sure my idea was working. I have been getting a lot of great feedback!

Recently, CCAD had a story workshop with some of our friends at Shadowbox Live. I got some really great tips and information from this. I spoke with Stev Guyer, executive producer at Shadowbox, after the workshop and asked if he would meet with me which he was more than glad to. We had that meeting today and here are some of the things he had to say:

-liked the simplistic idea of the theme, first impressions and quality of messages
-liked surprise at the end with huge landscape instead of just being about bird getting fruit
-liked the elephants personality and was able to easily understand him
-bird needs some more development/ better character description
-emphasizing the idea the bird can't fly more
-it's important why I chose a bird and why he can't fly
-emphasize the elephants cautiousness by having him narrowly avoid stepping on something
-have the elephant climb into the environment over wall to emphasize the enclosure
-use the body of the creatures and facial expressions to really push emotions
-really use the eyes to emphasize points too
-take time at beginning to really establish birds desire for fruit
-very important to animate real meaning in the faces

More Elephant Goodness

I've been focusing a lot on the head this past week. I've still got a bit of tweaking to do but overall pretty happy! For the ear, I plan to use it as a cloth with pins :) That's why it looks weird.

Story Outline

Here is a more simplified story with outline.

Beginnings of the Bird Turn Around

Here are some sketches from the lovely Ms. Arnett. We met to discuss in more detail the bird shapes and break downs and here is the result. Plan to be getting the cleaned up turn arounds soon.

Basic Bird Shapes Here

I took the basic sketch for the bird character and worked out the basic shapes for him. Heres what he looks like so far for your viewing pleasure.

The Elephant en 3D

This is the elephant character in 3D just going over the basic shapes. It was very helpful to do this and see what it looks like in 3D space. It helped me to see some changes that I needed to make. (this was done prior to Sam's turn arounds).

Elephant Turns Are here :)

Sam made these beautiful illustrations for me to make the Elephant 3 dimensional!