Board Rework Process

Still need to fix the shading; changed the characters to match the mood of the story. Last boards were too cartoony and Don was young looking.

Finalizing Comps

Here's the final two color comps for the prison cell, incorporating your suggestions. I have another question - with the prop designs I had Don on the top bunk - incorporating the personality aspects I discussed with Lucy. BUT she's been designing her shot with Don on the bottom bunk. I did a little research in some forums, and the consensus is that bottom bunks go to the prisoner with more seniority (ie not Don).

I can definitely revise the design, but I think having Don on top forces him to deal with the impact of his powers more than being on the bottom. What do you guys think?

I think that decision will determine the color choice as well. If we have Don on the top bunk, the cream walls provide more contrast with the top bunk, and I can revise the lighting design to bring the the eye to that bunk. 

Let me know your thoughts! 

Living room color comps

Here are some color comps of the living room before it changes into the music shop.

Prison Cell Comp Revision

Hey guys, thanks for all your great feedback! Here are the revision you guys suggested - I added more scratches and texturing to the wall, and experimented with some different colors. Let me know what you think!

Prison Cell Comps

Hi everyone! Here are my comps for the prison cells. I tried to investigate many different styles of prisons, levels of prop presence, and color. My favorite is number 6, but let me know if there's a door style or environment element you think would be good to incorporate into the final design! 

Char stuff

 Hi guys, hope you're having a good break. Just wanted some feedback on some things I've been working on. Since the teachers felt the characters weren't 80s enough, I've been focusing on trying to get that right without making it look too crazy. Which is a fine line when it comes to the 80s...So here are some outfits to choose from for the chars. Since we pretty much decided on the char's proportions and body shapes already, these are mainly for outfits and hair to show the teachers that we tried big hair and such. I talked to them after the final and they said there was no big hair so I should try it because that was one important thing about 80s fashion. Though we pretty much decided Shannon will have short hair, unless you guys see another style below you like better. I have reference for everything so we can show them callouts if they doubt the 80-ness of something.

 Personally for Don, I like 2, 5, and 6. I think Don having spiked hair might be kind of pointless since it will be raining on him all the time. Plus Don doesn't strike me as someone who would care enough to get up everyday to do his hair. So a shag style like in 6 might be best for him. What do you guys think?

 It was hard to do outfits for Jack so that's why there are less...Thomas said our older design looked like he was from Northern Europe in the 1800s >.> Lucie did research so I thought that comment was weird. So I tried to "update" his clothes more so it still makes sense that he's old, but would maybe fit in with the 80s more. Also the head turnaround is for Jayson to model from. Let me know if I did it right, or if you need more info. I have a feeling it might be too loose.

 It was easy to do outfits for Shannon. There was a lot more info on female 80s fashion. And below I did a color test to try to figure out how to render the chars. I'm thinking something like this, but a little tighter, with less lines, but still using the hatching marks that Kley uses. Would everyone be okay with that? We don't have to go with this design either, I just wanted to test out my idea.

I have a lot of other drawings I did but our scanner here isn't working for some reason so I will try to find another way to show you guys. Sorry this is so wordy lol Just a lot of stuff I've been thinking about over the break so far. Also, I have been trying to think of some music we can possibly use for the reel. I have a few songs in mind, but here is one I think would work really well. It sounds like a storm building, has a piano in it, but isn't so literal as straight piano music.