Lots of group work and character research

So this is second week and i dont have much to put in here because we did loads of work as a group. i think it was a really successfull week having got the script finalized, the storyboarding finished and we finalized our personal brief, which is all up on the group page.

as an individual i found some interesting images and attempted to design my character. below are just a couple of the images i found.I really like the image above, the tree's and a really nice windeing style as well as having a nice painted texture. it might be quite nice to have a painted style for the scene, altho i dont think it would particulaerly work for our brief, but it's something i could consider to use in a future project.

I really like this zombie character i found. the markings on her face are quite different, rather than having a big smudge slapped across her cheek or something. Her colour is really saturated, which makes her looks quite styleized.

Below is a serise of pages from my sketch book. The first image i was just jotting out a few conscpt ideas, like seating in the camp and a couple of storyboard shots i had in mind (befor we did all the storyboard as a group). Also to the top left is a really basic outine of my charactes head. i really want her to look quite chizled and hard, which would add to her evilness i think.

below are some more really quick sketches i tryed for her head. i tryed to take it further in photoshop by giving her some tone and a better definition, but it was taking up to much time, altho i got a getter feel for the characters look.

Below are some character designs for her clothing and hair. i really like the use of bones in her design, giving her an exo-skeleton look. i might avoid free flowing clothes though because that would take up alot of time in the animation prosess.


Below is one video i found which demonstrates some awsome fighting techniques. it's from the film 'Drunkern master 2' which shows the drunkern stance quite extensivly. I thought this style of fighting would be really good for our zombie character becuase it's very limp and bendy, much like a zombie's stance. i showed it to the resto f the group and they really liked it.