bullyalien and bullyship layout

Finally I took a shot at making some designs for the bullies and their ship.

I already had a couple of sketches laying on the shelve for some time now. So just for the fun of it I attempted to translate them in illustrator.

I tried to keep the designs simple so there's room for suggestions. Please let me know what you think..

a Notch Up

I'm thinking out loud about how far to take the Bullies concerning design. The amount of animation increases with this new look at the Bullies and would it simply be worth it? My conscious forces me to not just move stuff around, it all needs to have meaning, but animator's might disagree heavily. From their perspective, every movement needs to be multiplied by at least 12 and the pace is killing anyway, so maybe it's all not rewarding enough.

Still hairy

It's taking me some time for the storyboard to get it right. The first draft got shot out of the air almost immediately, so I'm reworking the rework. As compensation here's a new version of the hairy alien. It's sketchy, but I'm confident the designers will land it down later. And maybe tonight I decide to alter it once again. The writing part is the doubting part. But it's better to get that out of our system anyway so we can continue with confidence :)

Old Wuppie

I already have taken a shot at designing the StoryBoard to see if I wanted to actually do it. This is how the poor Wuppie looked like in that first 'draft':



To me, the 'new' ones are the same in essence (just a heap of hair, eyes & mouth), but stylized further to be clean for easier 'reading' and animation. Since this is going to be an ultra-small fast-paced short, there's absolutely no room for distracting full-blown design. That's a pity, but also the challenge! I am also not going to do the animation, but I dó feel responsibility for the one who will. The animator might look at both the designs and don't see the difference in animation-work, but I know I am going to be less happy with the result with the first model. If I see all this hair, I want it to be animated like such. With the new one, I wouldn't have this problem. Shapeshifting will do the trick, it's sci-fi right? :)

But please feel free to not agree with this! I'd like to hear your opinion :)

Eating and Flying