Character development

Animation references - For Miss Muffet I tried making a walk cycle frame by frame in photoshop then looping in After effects. For the dog, I separated it, then animated it in after effects by rotating the legs and resizing etc.








Animation Style - reference

"Thought of you" by Ryan Woodward

Woodwards animating is incredible. He hand drew every scene in this beautiful 3 min animation. Using a program similar to photoshop he drew each scene. This is similar to the way I want to animate mine. But instead I'll create walk cycles in after effects, so it wont be so time consuming. 

Walt Disney's - Snow white

Color adjustment

Storyboard edited

Thought through my my film a bit more - scene by scene - and took out unnecessary shots, also added establishing shot and worked out how long i needed for each shot

Prop and Shadow work

I decided on using warm colours for this prop, as the idea is for the shadows to be menacing, not the objects themselves.

Prop and Shadow References

"Snow White"

References - Shadow

"Tanks for Nothing" - shadows

Further Setting Design

"The Last Scarecrow" - Establishing Shot.

I decided I would like an establishing shot in the beginning of my film. It will consist of warmer colours, which will contrast  to the end of the film where the sequence gets darker and scarier.

Setting Design

Setting draft1

I wanted something with a lot of deatil in the background, similar to my references - "Tanks for Nothing" and Walt Disneys "Snow White". They use a detailed background, contrasted with bold bright characters/objects infront. The background is faded so as not to distract the viewer from the foreground.

"tanks for nothing"

"Snow white and the seven dwarfs"

Setting draft2

"Snow White and the seven dwarfs"

I love the colour palette seen in Snow White. The harmonious colours, and blue dark tones will be perfect in  my film.

Setting in photoshop

Setting juxtaposed with character.