Tia Whitehead - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts

In the lesson today we looked at location and how the weather and other things within the environment can effect the atmosphere. At the start of the lesson each person was given a well known land mark. We then had to use caricature to alter the land mark. I was told to look at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Guggenheim Museum, New York City I looked at the curvature of the building and extended both the curves and the height. After showing him what I had drawn, Justin suggested looking at the building as though it was a slinky. I much prefer this design as the building is still very similar to its original structure but has more character due to the curvature of it. We then moved on and spoke more about how weather can effect the environment's atmosphere. We were each given a character and were told to show the character's emotions through the surrounding environment. I was given a World War 2 solider as a character. I looked at a v...

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.

Here is my initial idea for the location in which the story will be set. In the story the main character is a brain surgeon who is operating on a patient so I believed that having the main location as a surgery room would be suitable. I then moved on to look at how I was going to draw the object in the story which is a battery. In order for the whole story to link and after speaking to Phil I looked into the brain being a battery in the story as the brain powers the whole body, like a battery would power a toy. I then looked into which parts of the brain retain information and intelligence to see which part of the brain Hugo Brantly would extract from his patients. After researching I believe that a piece from the patient's frontal lobe would be best.