Character Designs

Once I started the first storyboard, I had a pretty firm idea as to how the characters should look; for some reason I found the Mr.Hoskins was taking on a super hero like image in my head.

The amazing named 'Laydee' was the first I started to sketch out, I wanted the body structure to be easy to animate, so gave her very dainty features; the hands and feet in particular; I also made sure to keep the facial features to a minimum so I could portray the emotion through eyes and the body movement. No complex detail to her so it focuses on the reactions I hope to animate.

The wonderful Mr.Hoskins' design I had a lot of fun with; I made sure to design him as streamline as possible but still kept him with the same stylised image as 'Laydee'
Again minimal facial features, even more so with a mask; which I hope the mask will accentuate what reactions I hope to achieve.


The idea for opting for a stylised, almost stretched style I think I drew from the game 'Okami', The characters faces lack in detail yet it is still pleasing to the eye; though more so as to why I was looking into this game was the whole take on colour; it is as if playing a game on watercolour paper.

http://www.creativeuncut.com/art_okami_a.html

With these character designs it is very bright colours with a soft application of it. The colour isn't overpowered and retains a gentle appearance to it. Hopefully I may be able to animate it with colour so as to attempt something along the lines of this.