Artist inspiration

Another one of my inspirations for this project was an artist on instagram who creates Lino cuts of animals. My final character design very much resonates with this style and i really loved the outcome. Throughout lockdown i had been enjoying these illustrations very much but didn’t realise quite how inspired i was until i began mimicking the Lino cut technique in my own designs 
 

Artist inspiration

 One of my key inspirations throughout this project has been Owen Davey. Although my animation does not mirror his style i found his animated sequences as well as bold and colourful designs really unique. What i took from his work was that illustrating a character doesn’t necessarily mean they haft to be extremely realistic in any way. Instead that can be unproportional and follow more of a shape rather than be an illustrated replica of the source material. As a result i really enjoyed playing around with my animation because some of the things my dog does would be physically and gravitationally impossible but it makes for a really fluid and fun animation.

 

I think I prefer the sequence I made without the drawn in puppy sequence

 

Storyboarding in Procreate/ forming the illustrations I should draw between to create my animation

 

Current animation progress

 

Animation

 

Figuring out how to make a ball bounce or roll realistically

 

Ideas/ experimentation

When I’m building my animation I like to make notes on separate layers as I go along. Below is an example of me noting down an idea or two

Below is something that I’m really interested in. When I’m making my animation in Procreate I can see the layers in this coloured format. I really like the effect of seeing the layers colours together.

I also like the blackcontrast with the colourful dogs as well

 

Snippets of my animation

 

More story boarding building a style and figuring out how I can incorporate elements of the audio