[FIRST YEAR] Introduction to Making of
Covered today:
Character
Production Board Evaluation
1) Thumbnails
2) Turnaround
3) Poses
4) Colour Ways
5) Maquette
6) A3 Production Board
It was very difficult process on getting to the stage of having a character at the end. When I started making Thumbnails[1], it was hard to come up with original robots. All my robots were mostly box shaped because that is what I thought robots looked like. I didn’t know any different until I put a together a moodboard[2] of robots (and candy people because I started with both concepts but went towards robots as I liked them more and understood what they looked like in my head) finding out robots can be all different shapes and still look good. I came up with my character from different alterations of different robots on Futurama but that gave me a starting point for Vinnie. Most of my robots before Vinnie wasn’t very good because I was struggling imagining robots in my head I just needed photo reference to come up with my ideas. I was just developing my drawing skill.
The next stage of the process was doing a turnaround of my chosen robot. I’ve never done a turnaround before. It’s confusing why I didn’t do many of these basic skills in my animation course at college but that’s why I’m here to learn the filler information that I missed building on the skill of animation. When doing the turnaround, I was very hesitant of drawing it but making a turnaround will help me to model the character in Maya helping my modelling skill build.
The third stage was creating the poses for Vinnie making him anger, shocked, and sad/crying. When I was creating these emotions, I mimicked those emotions with my face to put them into the character. When creating the anger pose I was struggling showing that without making him shocked so I looked up how Bender from Futurama got angry. He pushes up his cuffs so I interpreted it into my character.
The fourth stage of the process was making a colour way[3] of Vinnie. This process was very hard because first I started with random colours:
The next stage of the process was doing a turnaround of my chosen robot. I’ve never done a turnaround before. It’s confusing why I didn’t do many of these basic skills in my animation course at college but that’s why I’m here to learn the filler information that I missed building on the skill of animation. When doing the turnaround, I was very hesitant of drawing it but making a turnaround will help me to model the character in Maya helping my modelling skill build.
The third stage was creating the poses for Vinnie making him anger, shocked, and sad/crying. When I was creating these emotions, I mimicked those emotions with my face to put them into the character. When creating the anger pose I was struggling showing that without making him shocked so I looked up how Bender from Futurama got angry. He pushes up his cuffs so I interpreted it into my character.
The fourth stage of the process was making a colour way[3] of Vinnie. This process was very hard because first I started with random colours:
These colours just didn’t work together so I went with the same colour but in different shades which gave it a better look.
If I could pick a favourite it would be this one:
Because
I like the different shade of blue
but it reminds me of Bender from Futurama.
The fifth stage of the process was making a maquette[4][5] of the character. This stage had a turn for the better when the character changed it appeal[6] (appearance) after modelling the character in white plasticine. When creating it I didn’t know how to create a box body with the material I had to hand so I used a polytene egg and built upon that. But that gave Vinnie a cartoon quality to his body.
The
final stage was making a character production board for Vinnie the Robot. There was a lot development into the making of Vinnie as a robot. So I put all these into a final character production board which made it look like this below:
