Tension Animation; Concept

My my tension/anticipation assignment in Animation I, I first had to decide on a character or object to draw. I went through a couple ideals, but this was my final ideal:

So far, I have the basic design of a little girl. She is made of five colors with shading. For the animation, she is trying to pull a box of cats and things go wrong.

This image was just a rough of my beginning of my animation.
With the animation, the girl was changed and now looks older. She is lanky and seems pretty clumsy.
After Wednesday, I will be post the final animation I did for this.
See ya then! c;

Final Choice? Zombies

First, let me start of with my background, which I was missing from my last post:

With this background I could finally combine all my colors into an unified palette.
And since I didn't have a unified color palette last class; here it is now:

This was a combination of all my palettes in my lasts drawings, including my background colors.

With this palette, I sketched out an ideal for my three zombie characters and colored it.
For the whole scheme, I found out that some of the colors didn't quite work with all the rest.

When I discovered that my initial unified palette wasn't really going to work effectively; I choose the main colors and created this:

This palette has the main flat colors that I used at the top and then on the bottom, I added my shade color to show how the palette becomes muted when the shading is added.

This is what my rough sketch for my composition looked like before I added the shading.
When I added the shading, the whole picture changed and became:

With further refining to my drawing, I hope to achieve my final result. 

At the moment, I'm getting the result that I wanted but, just not yet.

A plan to create more thumbnail sketches and play with the composition. They will all follow the relative color relationship in this one but, different.

D4M: Post 2

With my zombies, I dappled in three different, but similar palettes. For one of my zombie sketches, I stuck with my original idea of just dull colors. Realizing that it is a little boring and needs a 'PoP', I decided to experiment in adding brighter colors like the yellow and yellow-orange. Just to experiment further into a color scheme I used, brighter colors and stole from the palette of my 'Rats In Fancy Hats' idea.

With further research into my zombie color palette, I found the zombies from 'The Walking Dead' tv show and decided to look at their color scheme also.

With my 'Rats In Fancy Hats', I've decided to stuck with Marlena's palette of the brown. Also, with ethe's palette, I was going to incorporate that in the rats with their clothes and props.

Ball Bouncin'

This is my first animation project for Animation 1. This was done in ToonBoom Harmony 9 (with headaches).

For whatever reason, there is a bit of lag that is not there in the original

Any clue on how to fix that? 

Design4Media: Menagerie Concept

First Idea:
ZOMBIES! Zombies may be the overdone genre in art, movies, etc., but I want to give it a shot. See if I can appeal to the zombie fan masses. c;


Zombie Theme Components:
 ;dull color scheme
 ;comical
 ;sunken faces

More sketches of these interesting monsters to come!

Daily Delights: source

Inspirations for my zombie design  are from the recent zombie, stopmotion animation movie, 'ParaNorman' by Laika.

artisancakecompany: source

Second Idea:
"Rats In Hats" or "Fancy Rats Must Be In Hats".
I have chose this idea for two reasons: 1. my initials are RAT and 2. rats are intelligent creatures that deserve more positive attention.

Rat Theme Components:
 ;rats are wearing hats
 ;wearing clothes (or doing jobs)

Inspirations for my rats are from both ethe and marlenakate on deviantart.

~ethe

She is an inspiration because of her color schemes in here work. They are very pleasant for the eye to view and they absolutely beautiful (in my opinion).
I've chosen her as an inspiration for my rats because, not necessary for the way she draws animals, but for the way she chooses colors.









~marlenakate

Marlena is also an inspiration because she has a very Disney-esque style in a lot of her work and I adore it. Her sketches are very animated and capture whatever the creature/person is doing.
I've also chosen her for my rat inspiration because of her sketching style.

preStoryboard Planning

Polish army uniforms from the Soviet Union during WWII. (source)

Polish army uniforms from the Soviet Union during WWII.

This image is being used as a reference for the main character in a short story I am planning. The character is from the Soviet Union and had served as a sniper during WWII.

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The opening panels take place on an open snow field. The snow can be seen blowing in the background of the scene.  

Another scene that is seen withing the beginning is the main character leaning against a watch tower in an abandoned military base. The next few images show the references I am using for architecture, and possibly landscape layout for the foundation of the building (for later scenes).
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abandoned military installation near 
Tai Mo Shan
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These are just the beginning plans to my storyboard. Once I get the first 10~ panels done, I will post them.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these images. They belong to their respective owners at the source links next to the images.