Ani Arts Living Voices 1: Research

First and foremost I had to choose an audio. I was debating between find my own or picking one from the given sounds (either 02 or 06). In the end I chose to do 06 to show I can respond to a brief, and I like the comedic aspect.

I like the light-hearted arguing/staging an intervention, with a person confronting their friend being broke over a jacket. I will have to trim it down ever so slightly in order to be under 15 seconds.

First I made some moodboards outlining animation style, environment design and character inspiration.

Then I moved on to sketching a flower girl and her judgmental pet.

Now for some initial boarding ideas. The cat is just a place holder until I finish their design. But I know that I definitely like the high/low angle, and the height difference.

Then this is a work-in-progress turnaround for the main girl. I’m undecided about the gradient on her hair – it depends how easy it would be to animate. I also figured I would add eyebrows to her as well, as feedback suggested it would make her more expressive. I need to do the pet as well, which I’m thinking will just be a cat/dog with a flower on its head.

We also did a background paint test, by assigning grayscale values to a lined piece. I wanted to mimic lightning illuminating a room through a window, with an eery atmosphere.

This let me start off with backgrounds for my animation as well. I love the watercolour brush/smudge tool on Photoshop, it makes for great clouds.