Characters

Some coloured pics of my characters:

Avril

Clair

Melina

Hanna

I'll be submitting more when i get around to it. I will also show the process i go through to develop my sketches into these rough digital adaptations.

Story Notes

Notes about the story:

• From what i've written, there are 14 (Samoan, Cameron, Narissa, Melina, Luciana, Phianna, Chantelle, Laraya, Kayla, Becci, Avril, Jarek, Jesse. Clair and Hanna) characters split into 4 groups.
• The setting of the story is inside a simulation (as in virtual environment). Phianna refers to 'the next Phase' meaning the next level in the game. This specific level in the game represents the 15th century with the groups being split in a church next to the ruin of Radcliffe Manor, the graveyard outside the church, a forest and an open field.
• The groups were split up and their goal is to reach the checkpoint to exit the simulation.

More to be added

PowerPoint

I have begun my PowerPoint presentation for the project and will hopefully get it done, or most of it, in time. Below is an example of the process of what i am doing.

Storyboard Animatics

In animation and special effects work, the storyboarding stage may be followed by simplified mock-ups called "animatics" to give a better idea of how the scene will look and feel with motion and timing. At its simplest, an animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence with a rough dialogue and/or rough sound track added to the sequence of still images (usually taken from a storyboard) to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together.

This is the method i will be using to set out my project or at least something similar.

EDIT: Instead of pictures with dialogue i will interpret digital typography into the frames. The program i will be using is Microsoft PowerPoint.

Update

>I have written the script and collected more imagery, that is now ready for me to reference when drawing.

>Despite having everything planned out and believing i would get everything done by the deadline, i think i may have set myself too many tasks to get done and have therefore dropped behind in the work i needed to complete the project. However, i have found a solution to this by adjusting my project to fit the Digital Story aspect more than i would have if i'd have done the comic. I am now using the script i had previously written and drawing up frames for a short Storyboard Animatic. The Animatic will be of sketches drawn in biro pen that will be strategically placed in PowerPoint to move using the transitions and effects in the program.

>Of the 2 page script, i have successfully completed over a half of the images required to make the story come to life. The next step will be to finish all images and begin making the animatic.

More reference pics

First Character Sketches

Here are some initial sketches for characters i have created. I have a habit of preferring to draw with pen directly rather than with pencil and sketching out a basic outline. Hopefully you can see that i have referenced the 15th century in my designs and interpreted futuristic aspects as well.

Kayla (LEFT) Chantelle (RIGHT)

Laraya (LEFT) Samoan (RIGHT)

Melina (LEFT) Narissa (RIGHT)

Cameron (LEFT) Jarek (RIGHT)

Phianna (LEFT) Becci (RIGHT)

LEFT TO RIGHT (Hanna, Luciana, Clair, Avril)

I will now work on drawing them digitally and sorting out personality traits and such for each.

Daz Studio

I will be downloading the software for experimentation reasons for creating my characters.

DAZ Studio is a 3D figure illustration/animation application aimed at users who are interested in posing human and non-human figures for illustrations and animation, which will allow me to reference poses using the 3D Model for when i get to drawing up scenes. If i can follow tutorials for actually creating characters i will attempt to do so. 

Character Creation

I have begun to create characters for my comic/digital story, and have a few sketches, possible names and personality traits suited for them to continue planning. I have decided to base my story in a futuristic setting and have the characters not be entirely human, and will, in some aspects refer to common 'superhero' characters, with costumes and superpowers aiding them in their journeys. 

The theme remains to be that of the 15th Century as i will aim for the comic to centre around the mention of Radcliffe Tower with that showing importance in the script when written.