Monday 22 December 2008

GOD STUDYING COSMOS CREATION AT UNIVERSITY

a BA Hons in Cosmos Creation


Coloured and cleaned up in Photoshop

Original Drawing




Coloured and cleaned up in Photoshop
Original Drawing




These two images are to be used as stills in the film when the narrator discusses how God caught the attention of the media at university. I wanted them to be black and white to immidiately announce to the audience that this happened in the past, and as the shots have so much information to deliver, they needed to be thought through and detailed. The main thing that the audience needed to grasp was that this is a young God at university studying hard to create the cosmos. These images will be zoomed into slowly and be on screen for approximately 3-4 seconds.

Inspiration for the images
These photographs were selected as inspiration for my final images. Having a blackboard in the shots displaying formulas to create the world was an idea that came from the photographs, so it is clearer for the audience to see what God is doing. The research also inspired the colours, clothing, experiments, equipment in the images. The young God at university was origionally going to look much more youthful, however I thought this may confuse the audience as these images come so early in the film, right fter we've been introduced to God. Plus I think its funny to have God looking pretty much the same, just with youthful additions such as acne, a baseball cap, thicker wavier hair and a small goatie beard. On after effects I may much around with the levels on my images to get them looking older and also add some noise and grain.

Sunday 21 December 2008

Final Character Design - God

Final Character Design (Above) 2nd Draft, using colour (Above) - head to wide, too childlike

Character Developments (Above)
One of the pages of the First Draft Sketches of character (Above)
- develop the design at bottom left





Character Design - Influences

SIMPLICITY AND UNIQUENESS
Here are a collection of characters that influence my character designs, along with images of God

I want the main character God to be simple, but have its own unique style, an aspect that runs through all of the other characters that makes them all work well together in the film.
I like the simplicity and uniqueness of characters like The Cramp Twins (above)and Rex the Runt, which although being so simple, they remain really strong recognizable characters and are able to show emotion and connect with the audience.





Monkey Dust,
I really enjoy the Simple design -
bald, enlarged forehead, small beady eyes,
Exaggerated features on the character aid the humour.



Sideshow Bob - Narrow Face, smug grin
big hair


Characterization by Gaurdian cartoonist steve bell. Enlarging

aspects of the person to stylize them into an interesting
cartoon character.





Exaggerated Features





South Parks Image of Jesus

As simple as it gets, I want my character to
have a large head on a small, simpler body like
the South Park characters.



Monkey Dust, nose straight down, narrow face, large forehead







Image (Below) of God

Grey Beard and Wavy Grey hair, In the clouds, Powerful Body,
Spear of Light, Olive Skin,










Another character recognisable because of the head shape,

Hey Arnold has a an american football shaped head like Stewie Griffin.
Other famous characters recognised by head shape are Homer Simpson and Mickey Mouse


Wild Thornberrys father, I like the beady eyes, facial hair, and exaggerated feature of the nose.

Simple characters from Rex The Runt, simple bodies.
Aardman, characterized by the close eyes and wide mouths.
My character could have a strange headshape like Wallaces.

2DTV Weird shapes for the heads, and exaggerated features.
The characterizations of celebrities on
2dtv . I could characterize the
images like the ones above of God


Stewie Griffin, large head on small body,
Simple design, Can be cute (big eyes) and totally evil, all through the eyes.

Inspiration for a simple body shape

classic cartoon representations of Humans, beady eyes


The Coneheads, I like the idea God having a
cone shaped head with his grey
hair and beard coming off of it. Exagerration of the
forehead like the cartoons of steve bell displaying Gods
massive brain, or his big head due to his fame.
I think this could work well.

Monday 15 December 2008

MORE CHARACTER DESIGNS





The Devil

CHARACTER DESIGNS

Gods hippy roomate - TRE

GOD

TRE



VARIOUS CHARACTERS


GOD