From Script to Screen - Trixiebelle Influence Map

After receiving feedback on my character design, in order to make my character less generic, but still keeping with the look of a tradtional fairy as I wanted to, I decided to look at more naturalistic componenets of the world such as leaves as inspiration of how I could incorporate nature physically into my fairy. I also looked at dragonflies, for the more interesting design of the wings and butterfly antennas, again incorporating the natural into my character.

For further inspiration I looked at fantasy characters such as druids and elves, who are known to be very much involved with nature in how I could use the nature objects I researched, I also looked a tree sap, which seems to glow in comparison to the rest of the tree, which I could use as influence for the skin of Trixiebelle.

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From Script to Screen - Character Design: Trixiebelle Alternative Hairs & Outfits

Here are some alternative outfits and hairstyles that I created for my character of Trixiebelle, I'm not sure what looks the best out of hairstyle A,B or C and outfit 1,2 or 3, any thoughts are welcome. (:

Life Drawing - Alan

Here are a couple of images of my life drawing of Alan today.

 

Maya Tutorial - Bouncing Ball on Spot

Animation - Gestural & Continuous Line Drawings/Without Looking at the Paper

For one of our animation lessons we had to draw the person opposite us using continuous line without looking down at the paper once. I had to draw Rhys and Livi and I think my drawing of Rhys, in terms of positioning of the face turned out better, but of course it was still highly inaccurate as we couldn't look at the paper :P

We also had to draw quick gestural poses of what we saw in about 15 or 30 seconds, this is my very quick drawing of Adam and Scott fighting, followed by Scott performing the Y,M,C...he didn't get around to the A, :P for our gestural drawings.

Life Drawings

This is some of my life drawing work in no particular order, sorry about the bad picture quality I think in future I am going to take pictures of some of my work as it stands on the easel.

 

From Script to Screen - Rough Character Design: Trixiebelle

This is my first design of the character Trixiebelle in my story. Being as my story is supposed to be child-friendly and fantasy, like a fairytale, I figured a more cartoon-esque style would work best. I will soon work on her in Photoshop to create some variations. (: