Carnival Interior Sketches

These are my rough sketches using blocking colors.

 

 

Animation WIP

 

 

 

My animation sketches, I'd show more but something didn't save right...

Style Questions

I'm formulating my questions to ask to try and get a better idea of what my issue is.

The style between the characters and environment clash...why?
     -Is the issue in the painterly style of the environment versus the use of lineart with the characters?
     -Do the color schemes clash? Should I mute the character colors more?
     -Is it the lighting? Should I add shading and lighting similar to the environment?
     -Are they not creepy enough to match the environment? Would simply making them scarier or creepier fix the issue?
     -Are the characters too cartoony  for the environment?
     -How do you know when two objects have a "dialogue" with one another? What is this "dialogue" that artists talk about?

About the animation:
    -Do they need to be finalized in After Effects?
    -How detailed and professional an animation are you expecting?

AfterEffects References of use

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mize_rob/AE-Sketching/video-tutorial

This is helpful to help emphasize the book aspect of the world!

http://motional.net/learn/afx/2d-character-animation-after-effects#.Umab0BYp-uc

This helps with animating the characters.

Silhouette Style

I drew sketches on how a silhouette style might work. Though in hindsight maybe I should have shaded them in...

Ringleader

These are some sketches I did to scarify (and I shall make up words for I am not an English major) the Ringleader based on what both the class suggested and a bit of refining based on Mike Conway's advice.

Concept Sheets

 

 I was messing with the sheets and accidentally removed the line art and found that it looked good. So now I'm not sure whether to go with outlines or a painterly, no line style.














Anyways, these are my completed concept sheets:

Rudolf, Concept Art

These two are things done based on Rudolf's new design I made. The left is his point of view while the right is an updated version of my environment design.

This is a rough sketch design I made of Rudolf.

 

This is a digital lineart piece I did for Rudolf and I tried doing a back-coloring to see how it'd look.

 

Here I tried coloring his clothing. I changed his red shirt to orange because I felt a Halloween color-scheme might be more appropriate for the setting.

 

This is my Concept Sheet rough draft I did for Rudolf. I know I left his fur uncolored, but I feel the under-coloring of grey works well to do so and looks better than actually coloring the fur. As for the typography, I know my professor will ask my I chose that one. Well I did look for a "scary" style but they would be too thin to really show or look good. And a childish design seemed appropriate for his design, but not for the setting. But since the setting is a book-world, I felt a literature based type, an old style of literature and not the newer serif styles, was appropriate and I feel like it works best. I do know that there is a lot of empty space at the bottom I need to tighten up, but I also know I need to include his tools, ie his lamp and perhaps the book.