Character Designs- Bus Driver

I was given the role of looking at the idea of stop motion in our film. So immediately after viewing Morgan's first draft of the storyboard, where he used many of the groups ideas and put them into scenes. These rough designs are of the bus driver, who our 'hero' encounters. Since we started the project, i have been 'doodling' francis bacon-esk drawings, using the motif of 'if germs had a voice'. I have been looking into mouths, as a character, how to get expression and emotion from two lips, two rows of teeth and a tongue. So far, proving successful (in drawing) but when i want to apply a 3-D concept- i may have to rethink certain aspects. After the lecture with Rob Morgan, and his inspirational film 'Bobby Yeah', i would like to look into how wax can be applied, as he used wax in his puppets because "... they looked more flesh-like and give it an overall realism". 

Rough Animatic sequence of 'bus scene'

Clay sculpture of mouth "germ"

storyboard

Abstract animated figure

Drawing individual frames, one different from the previous, continuing from what i have done before but creating a more sympathetic character. Having created from one small spec, then gradually evolving into the humanoid that we see at the end, i was trying to use the idea of the "fear" being inside him from birth.

Abstract Imagery

4 images of the same object, but completed in different techniques.

Abstract drawing of Kitchen.

Drawing of mouths, incase we decide to give the figure a mouth.

Abstract drawings based off listening to the music we picked last week- my chosen tracks are The Red Book, from Sherlock Holmes, Mozart's Requiem and Moving Mountains from Two Steps from Hell.





Next 3 drawings are of the same object ( steampunk goggles) but in different environments; Sink, Bed and Light. This is to understand how an object can look and feel the same whilst in a more abstract setting. The idea is to have a cloth, that the figure uses to clean himself with, sometimes in a more detailed background and with this going on, the cloth will remain the same throughout.

Last two drawings are representations of the music i listened to (Mozart etc), but in colour and with a change of background. Instantly i see links to Francis Bacon, especially in the choice of colours and imagery (screaming figures, caged up).