Monday 30 March 2009

Totoro-like creature

After a chat with both sean and lez, I've decided to scrap the business character and go for something a little more absurd.
taking what sean had given me, it should be a monster instead whose reading the newspaper then just suddenly pops out from the newspaper and eats up the student. Becky would than add something to the conversation that would be the main point for our influence:

We would use this screenshot from My Neighbour Totoro as it's pretty much the same camera shot, it's a bus stop and it also has a monster. It's quite surprising, now with the monster replacing the business man, how it really does have links to this shot. Could of been a sub-concious thought running though my head storyboarding at the time.

So with that image as a starting point I asked Becky if she could do a rough concept for me, nothing really specific but just to keep it in the same universe as our sting.

She cam back to me with this image and I have to say I'm very impressed. it's got this tazmanian-devil charm to it aswell as a touch of Totoro. The only fault i have with it is that it's not as edgy as a wanted it to be, then again I didn't really ask for anything specific. I knew I would get some great work from Becky and trusted that she would come through for me. I decided that i would have a go at Her concepts and try to get some expressions and style of the overall sting:


The first image is roughly about the same as the concept but with more basic shapes and as you look at the third image I slowly start to know the character more.

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