Evaluating the boards

After much development of my character I’m very happy with how he turned out in terms of personality and simplicity. My character actually progressed through the module in terms of back-story and posture as well as colour schemes and features so I’m very happy with my development work because I feel it shows a real commitment to this character and a desire to make it work. In terms of my computer-based work I do feel that I could have done more in relation to making the character look more 3 dimensional. This could have been achieved by a more complicated colouring up style and more time span on Photoshop making the board really stand out. Despite this fact I am overall happy with my boards because I feel I’ve used the research to aid me in the creation of my boards and this is evident when I’ve used side profile expression that I liked when I found them in my research task. I was never unsure of my ability’s in this module as I felt my skills on the programs I was using were good and I was happy with any computer based work I was producing. Overall I’m really happy with the time I’ve spent getting these character boards to where they are now and I think as a module I’ve progressed in terms of my art and ideas for a final animation. 

Final Boards

really happy with these, i think they show how my character developed through the weeks and how his personality influences his appearance. 1 problem was they didnt print quite as nice as they look on screen but all in all i'm pleased. 

Ready for the board

Heres Winston all ready for the character boards, if i still get the time i do want to give the character some depth by shading but all in all im happy with my designs.

Undecided

Even though my colour scheme was settled on i still had to colour up one of my action poses to see what it looked like in other colours but i wasn't keen on the green with the blue slobber. 

Colour ideas

Here are the colour schemes i worked through using some of the same colours to try and find a nice colour for my slug, the top left one i settled on was mostly because when my animation is produced a lot of the background colour will be green because of the grass and i wanted a colour scheme that would contrast with this.

In colour

My Slug, Winston his name is, then went through some colour changes before settling on this scheme for the time being.

This year i've been designing a slug character and after some unsatiffactory first sketches this was what i finally settled on as something i liked. Some of my inspiration came from the fairly recent flushed away, although having not seen it ive researched the slug characters in it quite alot to drawn some ideas.