Pitch project character development

This is my character development sheets. I worked on exaggerating certain features of my characters, making them look less realistic. Using different shapes and sizes. Researched a bit into it and this is what i came up with.

These are my final character designs and facial expressions along side one of my environment designs. Im really happy the way they have turned out. I think i need to present them better when i get round to pitch. But over all i'm happy with the out come.

Pitch project research

Here i have decided to look up diffrent types of cartoon pigeons to get a better idea in how i want my character to look, i also looked up a proper picture of a pigeon so i know the shapes and look of them.

My story is about a pigeon getting revenge on a posh man who stands on his lunch. There are 3 different events before it ends. Its going to be a 10 minute short aimed towards children.

Seagull character development ( negotiated Brief)

These are some of my character development work and some environment designs, for the environment i was thinking of using the pier design. I have chosen two final characters designs, which i'm going to work on and color in.

Im over all quite happy with the out come of the development. The research has helped alot and i feel like i can work on character design a lot better now although i still need to practice a bit still.

Research into traditional cartoons ( Negotiated Brief)

I got a book out looking at traditional animation, it showed traditional characters, movements and line of actions, it gave me a better idea for my character and i wanted to do something a bit different from the tradition white oval with a smaller black oval in side.

I've grown quite fond of black dots for eyes and i'm going to work on over exaggerating some of my seagull character.

Research into 2nd character design (negotiated brief)

After drawing out a few seagull designs ( which will be going up) I decided to research into cartoon styles grandmothers for my 2nd character:

I want something quite caricatured, so im my own designs im going to look at such things as making the nose bigger, eyes or glasses, making the body larger.

Negotiated brief

For my negotiated brief i have decided to look at cartoon animals as well as humans. I came up with the idea of having a seagull putting on a show for humans, doing tricks for some chips, then the seagull stepping into the humans shoes and the roles being swapped so the humans become really small and they start doing a show and the seagull is just stood there eating all the chips. I was thinking about having about it being set on a pier and having a tom and jerry style humans where you only see them from the knees down then when the seagull swaps roles you only see the seagulls legs.

I was thinking as its set on a pier i would have the seagull in a sailor suit or hat. Im going to play round with different ideas, start drawing them using different cartoon styles and clothing.

I rather like the popcorn seagull so i may play around with that idea and make it look more like a seagull looking at different styles. I looked up different seagulls and the pier.