ADB: Character Design - Front Orthrographic + Colour Sheets. *Edit: Coloured with Numbers*

I haven't yet figured out the side view but I'm working on it. 

Maya tutorial: Dynamics Part 2: Particles Grids

@Alan - Further Character structures.

Using the links provided by Phil I have started to work on different angle/structures/turnarounds for my character, I think I might start to model him to get a better sense of how to see him in 3D.

@Alan - ADB: Character structure?

I have started to look at the internal structure of the character, I just wanted to make sure this is what you meant? And also any further tips on what I should do with it other than draw it over and over. The side profile was really hard to obtain, I am going to attempt other angles.

ADB: Interim Crit Presentation

Adaptation B V2

ADB: Post tutorial Sketches

 After my tutorial with Alan, I needed to start getting some defined poses and characterises through. So the following are what I've been working with over the past few hours. Some are stronger than others, but I want to make sure that I am going in the right direction. Keeping in mind each one represents a characteristic and a combination of animal and human. The first set of faces are just experiments I was doing to try and combine the shape of a baby's head and the head of a different animal.

Face 1 - Dog

Face 2 - Fox/Dog

Face 3 - Squirral

Angry - goat and human

Proud/Heroic - Dog and Human

Sketchy/Shy - Bat and Human

Sad - Monkey and Human

Work In Progress - Silent/Ignoring - Dog and Human.

ADB: Character Exploration Part 1: Ear's and Nose continued.

I decided to work on some more ears and noses to start with. I have been looking at animals that live in the forests and woods and tried to see what kind of design impact that would have on this specific pose.

ADB: Character Exploration Part 1 - Ears and Nose combination.

I have been working on some exploration of designs for the ears and nose of my character, using a pose created from the suggested designs in my sketch book that was picked up on. I'll be doing more tomorrow as well as a spread of different poses, expressing a different set of arm/legs, feet/hand and head shapes. I chose this specific pose, as it seemed very confident and heroic - actually it was inspired by a skateboarder that I was watching in the park near the university.

Film Review: Where the Wind Blows (1986)

Where the Wind Blows. 

Where the Wind Blows, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, is a 1986 animation with added live-action/documented film scenes about a couple who live in the country. Hilda and Jim Boggs are a elderly couple who live in the remote countryside of England. It is here we start to see them go about their daily lives through the thick of a Impending nuclear attack. Hilda is the only one who has no faith in there actually being a impending strike, Jim on the other hand begins to panic and starts to construct a shelter for them. As the film progresses we see a comparison of events between what is happening between America and Russia with Germany and England from the second world war 40 years prior. The bomb unexpectedly creeps up on them and Jim is forced to break a boundary by getting angry with his wife and forcing them both into the shelter he has constructed. After the bomb strikes, the see that their house have been burnt, exploded and destroyed. What is seemly dark but yet comedic is that Hilda seems to only think about her house's presentation and keeping it clean, not so much about the dangers with venturing out into the irradiated house to clean up. This is only dark because they have no clue what the residual effects of radiation exposure could do them.

Hilda and Jim Boggs pre-radiation exposure. 

Hilda Boggs after radiation exposure. 

Jim Boggs after radiation exposure. 

Over the course of the next few days, Jim tries to increase their hops by saying that help and emergency services will be arriving shortly, just like they did back in the war times. However, this is where the story takes a really really really grim turn. You can feel the dread after the impact of the bomb, the concept that you just know no one else was alive. This really hit home, as it brought feelings of sadness as well as shock. As the story draws to a close we see Jim and Hilda fall prey to the obvious incursion of radiation sickness. Neither of them understand what is happening to them, Jim merely dismisses it to being stressed, aftershocks and just what to expect after a strike like that. The art style effectively displays their deterioration, the lack of fat in their check bones, the spots on their skin and the headaches. I have played Bethesda's every popular Fallout franchise, and the one thing I could think of was that they were going to rise and become ghouls. But that is just my gamer mind. But in all seriousness, they knew they were sick, even getting into those dirty paper bags was a even worse idea then stepping out of the shelter in the first place.

The instances where Jim was re-telling the impacts of the second world war and the added animations overlapping the present was really effective. It made the story come to life in his own living room. The added real-life accounts gave the film that added power to make the feelings towards the characters stronger. Over all the movie was very touching, sad and really didn't want to watch it if I be honest. However I did enjoy it.

Image URL list:
http://www.discdish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/when_the_wind_blows_xl_01-film-a.jpg
https://media.outnow.ch/Movies/Bilder/1986/WhenTheWindBlows/dvd-film.fs/09.jpg
https://stevenrobertsdmublog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/hilda-dying.png

ADB: Further Idea

After my tutorial with Alan, we discussed approaching the designs with more of a focus on arms, legs, ears and feet. I have begun some of these in the hope of seeing some more defined designs.

ADB: More Ideas.

I'm really coming along with these, I think that the large head and small bodies is working well.

APB: Idea - using the flour sack design.

After my tutorial with Alan, he suggested I start by looking at the ''flour sack'' design used by Disney to try and get my designs in order. So far here is what I've sketched on sketch book pro as I have not go my scanner working to scan my sketchbook versions.