Tia Whitehead - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts

For this project we were given the brief to create an animatic and pre-viz from the three components that we were to be given at the start of the project. My three components were pirate (for the character), hospital (for the location) and battery (as the object). One of the first problems that I encountered at the beginning of the project was that I was thinking too originally with the story ideas that I was presenting to Phil. For example one of my ideas was to have a surgeon who was dressed in a pirate fancy dress costume operating on a patient in order to give the patient a new pacemaker battery. Phil then said in my first OGR that I needed to go into depth with what each component could mean, for example, looking at different objects that could be seen as a battery, which has now helped me look at things differently for future projects. Another issue that I had faced was time management. At the start of the project I believed that I had done a suitable amount of work a...

'Art of' - Knowledge is key Animatic Pre-viz

Here are the two emotions that I made for Dexter: Here are the three emotions that I made for Dr. Hugo Brantly:

Here is my first digital drawing of Dexter: Here is my first digital drawing of Dr. Brantly: 

After my second OGR, Phil gave me the advice to redesign my characters and set to look more cartoon like and inspired by cartoons such as Looney Toons. Here is a quick bit of research that I did looking at Looney Toons cat characters such as Sylvester and Penelope. Here are the thumbnails I created for Dexter: Here is some more research that I did on human Looney Toons characters. I looked at how their noses, eyes, ears and mouths were drawn. Here are the thumbnails that I created for Dr. Brantly:

Here are the links to the artist's tool kit: Character design:  https://tiawhitehead.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Character%20design Film reviews:  https://tiawhitehead.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Film%20review Life drawing:  https://tiawhitehead.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Life%20drawing Maya:  https://tiawhitehead.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Maya

Location concept art: Character concept art: Dexter - Dr. Brantly's sidekick Dr. Brantly World renown scientists Prop concept art:

Here are my developmental thumbnail sketches for my story's characters, props and location. Here are my developmental character thumbnails for the evil brain surgeon, Dr. Hugo Brantly: Dr. Hugo Brantly developmental thumbnails Here are my developmental thumbnails of an octopus sidekick for Dr. Brantly. After considering how realistic an octopus sidekick would be, I then moved on to creating a cat sidekick for Dr. Brantly named Dexter. Octopus sidekick developmental thumbnails Dexter (Dr. Brantly's sidekick) developmental thumbnails Here are the thumbnails for the props that will be used within my story. Here are the location developmental thumbnails for my story. There are thumbnails for: The hospital corridor The hospital lift The hospital basement The hospital basement room

From script to screen - Influence maps Location:   This influence map looks at four different locations, all of which are linked. These are: The hospital corridor The lift The hospital basement The room in the hospital basement Character: This influence maps shows ideas for both the evil brain surgeon character and his cat side kick.

Step outline Characters: Dr. Hugo Brantly - Evil brain surgeon Dexter - Dr. Brantly's cat sidekick Start: Act 1: ( Medium long shot ) Scene opens with the camera at ground level facing a hospital door.  The door then opens and Brantly exits, walking closer to the camera. Brantly the stops. Noise of a television - News bulletin - Presenters talking Camera slowly moves up Brantly's body until it shows Brantly's face, it then stops and shows Brantly looking from left to right in search of the noise from the television. ( Medium long shot ) Camera showing Brantly from the waist up, the camera follows Brantly as he moves (to the right) down the corridor towards the noise. ( Long shot ) Brantly then stops and reaches for the door handle (to his left). ( Close up ) (from the door handle's perspective - Looking up at Brantly's face) Showing Brantly reaching for the handle and opening it. ( Over the shoulder shot ) Shows Brantly looking in the ...

The premise After years of working alongside evil brain surgeon Dr. Brantly, Dexter decides that his latest scheme may indeed be his last. The logline Setting up a lair in the basement of a hospital and slowly collecting world renown scientists to power his knowledge enhancing helmet, Dr. Hugo Brantly feels as though his plan to become the most knowledgeable and powerful doctor in the world is starting to come together. This is until his mistreated sidekick Dexter decides that he has had enough of walking in Dr. Brantly's shadow and uses the helmet for himself.

Here are some of my character designs for both the villain and other scientists within my story. I haven't decided yet on which of these characters below will be my villain and which of the other characters will be the other scientists. I have also experimented with different eyes for each of the characters to see which I'd prefer.  For these designs I created the skin colours using acrylic paint and then used black Biro pen and coloured pencils to add more details and facial features.