James Annandale MSc Animation

 Here, it was time to explore what colour palette I should use to finish Maddox's design. Eve had told me she wanted her to have blonde hair and a dark top and bottoms underneath the dress. The refence she gave me showed a dark, velvety, blue/purple material so I stuck to these as well as trying green. In the end I went with the purple.

 This was a very enjoyable day, I worked on turnaround sheets for characters Briar, Katherine and Maddox (again at this point I hadn't decided Katherine was going to be removed). These were all quite challenging and I'll be returning to Briar's to work on her face, but very rewarding and I feel a success.

 Below is a sheet exploring outfit changes for Katherine, just like in the last post about the exclusion of the Mafioso muffin man I also decided to remove Katherine from the portfolio as the design was quite as dynamic as the rest.   I did however decide to keep Maddox in, below are costume changes for her character based on reference material Eve provided me with.

 I didn't end up including this character in my portfolio after advice from Kieran, however I had already played around with adding colour before this decision was made. Out of the two sheets, my preference would have been for either the bottom left or the bottom right colour palette on the sheet below.

 After working on Baron Samedi I turned my attention to Briar and using the same colour palette, alternated the colour of her clothes and travel bag. I kept it to one tone per colour for simplicity and was pleased with the result.

 Below I decided to explore some different coloured suits along with snake, even though I knew I prefered the top outfit this was a good exercise.

Having spotted several gaps in my work I decided to turn my attention back to Baron Samedi, creating facial expressions, poses and a turnaround sheet. The sheet below was quite challenging as he is wearing round sunglasses. It's not until you try to express a character's emotions through their facial expressions that you realise how important the eyes are in this process. I think the fact I gave him a large and quite expressive mouth helped make up for this. Below are two of several poses I wanted to play around with. Here the Baron is taking a good glug of rum and then sucking on a Cuban cigar, two past times he's notorious for.