#08 - Environment settings

Douglas did some surfing on the net to have a look at the precedents which he thought we could develop our background from, and these were the designs which he did.

The jungle scene would be something like this one.

And this would be where the main character runs off to. (where the penguin guru lives.)

The grass in the scenes would be animated like the tutorial which we had on the fire. But we need to develop this scene a bit more because at the moment Michael and I think its a little bit weird.

#07 - The development of characters

During the mid-semester break. we focused on the assignment 3, which was the development of the characters and also creating an animatic to see how the timing of the story would fit.

Michael started with off the character sketches, so we can use them to base our flash drawings on.


After importing it into flash and locking it as a background I proceded to using the brush tool to draw it out and the results were:

However the thing about drawing the characters with a brush tool, was that it the character would have to be drawn for each scene. And so I started using the pen tool to create a character which resulted:

And then after talking with michael about the shadowing and colours, we came up with this: