Narrative: Hyena Character Concept

Here is my initial painting for the character that I have derived from my sketches in my sketchbook, I want to try and combine my toony style and the African cave painting style. For the animation we may use a line drawing for our character and be keeping the shader transparent but for now I wanted to paint the character as if it were textured. I want to get across the crazy personality and the viscous side of him.

These may need a few tweaks to get that right but these are my initial paintings :)

Narrative: Updated Storyboard

Here is our final storyboard, at a later date I will recreate this within Photoshop but now  our group has the narrative figured out we can go onto more character designs and environment designs.

Narrative: Developed Storyboard

Maya Modelling: Nose and Eyes

Character: Silhouettes and Character

For todays lesson we were taught about the use of silhouettes in character design and we were all given a separate type of character to work with, the one I was given was "pirates." At first I thought of the typical pirate with long swords and captain hats, but then I thought more about space pirates and Alien like characters, much like Treasure Planet. These were the silhouettes that I had came up with. I tried to sketch some villains, heroes and sidekicks just using silhouettes.

Narrative: First Character Designs

 

After researching and using my influence maps I have done some quick character designs. I was looking for a crazy hyena and in contrast an old slow porcupine.

I was thinking for design the hyena will be more triangular and the porcupine circular and using his spikes for an old hair style maybe?

Narrative: First Storyboard Ideas