Backgrounds

I've three more to do. I still have to add some trash about the place as well.

Some prop designs

Some prop designs. Definitely still open to changes if you guys aren't 100% happy with anything, but thought I'd throw them up here on the blog anyway.

Van: New Colour

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Background

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Sample background

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Van Front

I changed a few small things on the van like the VW symbol and added an interior. Let me know if there's anything else that needs changing.

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Bottles, Cans and a Sandwich

Just some of the props we can use in the short. 

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Van Turn Around

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Character Design

These are rough ideas of how I see some of the characters.

The magpie and the man are both done in flash.

And I drew the tree in photoshop

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Brush test

I don't know what version of Photoshop you have but I use CS4. I was looking into the preset brushes to see what ones might look right.

Most of the brushes that have a number followed by 'pixel' at the end look poor. (most of the above marks are made from those brushes, except the 3 bottom right)

There are other preset brushes that look a lot nicer, such as 'rough round bristle' (top right). I also downloaded so free rough edge brushes but nothing I could find was any good.

So then I threw this together using the 'rough round brush' for the layout and flash for the VW van just to see how the two looked together.

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Scenery

Initial scenery/background designs

VW van

And here are a few sketches of their bouncy bird watching van

Early concept work

As suggested, I'm adding some of the preliminary sketches. In this case, of the male and female characters, before we begin to add additional concept art and refine them.

For instance, this lady may be hen-like in appearance/manerisms...

And this fella may have vulture like qualities...