Character Designs- Simple Shapes

The group decided as a whole that it would be easier if we could have a character made up of simple shapes thus adding to the ease of animating, I tried to come up with a few ideas for the mouse character, also mentioned was they way in which the elephant could contrast with the mouse being made up of jagged edges.

Storyboarding: The door to the human

Yet more storyboard, again i concentrated on part of the middle of the story from the mouse seeing the door till the mouse sees the human.

The Escape

The following sketches show ideas that i generated, these ideas were for the way the mouse could escape from the Human once both of them meet.

Middle of Story- Possible Ideas

 I was given the task to storyboard the middle of the scene, I looked at the script written by Lawrence and then used that to come up with an idea for the middle part of the animation.

Thumbnail Sketches

I drew out some quick thumbnail sketches to outline the story, we had to fill in the gap of the "sandwich" which is our story for the animation. In-between the mouse seeing the door and the elephant bursting into the house, I wanted to incorporate a scene of the mouse dashing around the kitchen dodging various dangers around the kitchen such as cutlery and so on, the mouse could also knock something over preferably a drink, he would then run into the human and there would be a screaming match between the mouse and the human and then the elephant will burst into the kitchen and see the mouse and then run away destroying everything.

Elephant Character Designs

These are the Elephant character designs I have drawn, I used references from google images of Both cartoon and real life Elephants.

 Some of the designs include tusks and the legs and ears differ throughout, the question of animating the tail comes to mind like it did with the mouse, do we make the tail a solid shape or just a line.

Mouse character designs

The Director of my group Lawrence Vincent, asked that we draw out some character designs for the animation, we had to draw mice as the main character of the animation is a mouse, i drew 4 pages of design  for the mouse, concentrating on the idea of a pair of "goofy" teeth for the mouse along with a long nose and whiskers. 

I used google images for references, i copied some images and used some other to inspire my ideas, I combined parts from one with another.

MSS Individual Blog

This is my individual blog for the Movement Story Structure unit, I will post work that i am set to do by the director to show my contribution to the group film, other pieces of work may be found on the group blog page "MSS Group 3 Blog"