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Eucroma II

So. Im a bit busy like crazy with the animatic since a week now and im pretty sure i wont really be on character design duty for a while, since the production team has things to work with, and we cant change things til the second part starts anyway. (DONT ask about the Eucroma system, i dont understand it either. i guess its more game developer than cartoonist friendly. or we could also say its pretty much a nightmare to develope a cartoon this way, but it could be worse i guess?)

Anyway.

In, case anyone missed it, heres the pervious post, click.

I designed Gus, the polarbear, our main character and since he's pretty much established now, im posting some character development sketches.

He originally was just a regular, grumpy polarbear who wants his ice back, and since we knew its going to be in 3D we were going to a more realistic directiont:

until i drew this.

that second bear was just for fun and i forgot to delet it before we presented them but the storyworld director liked it and thats when our endless struggle with translating a terrific 2D Gus into a horrible 3D Gus started:

blocky-bear variations:

we still gave a chanse to ice-berg Gus, so i had to drew som poses for him, to see how he works:

but at the end we settled with this:

of course it wouldn't have worked in 3D at all, so i had to come up with something more 3D-ish. Especially for the legs:

disco bear was kind of a breaking point that day.

Meanwhile Gus became a manic-depressive alcoholic:

one last funny expression sheet before everything goes horribly wrong in 3D:

And this is pretty much what we have now.

Bonus storydrawing, because of the penguins:

next time:

stroyboards, baby

i started sorting things in my art folder because there are a lot of unfinished things named with keysmashes but there was this sai file called “haveuhuggedurdogtoday” and i had no idea what it was so i opened it and haaa, it was this.

Regular★Dandy

Beautiful, experimental animation, funky music and trippy, clever plot: 

Congratulations to Space★Dandy on becoming my first favourite anime ever.

When the entire cast died at the end of the first episode i knew this was gonna my thing.

Eucroma I

the first sneak-peak of the thing im working on! as some of you already know, im in Denmark, participating as a concept artist/characecter designer in the EUCROMA project. We're developing a cartoon (and a game, but im not really involved in that) in 5 months. intense but really cool.
MeltDown is a satirical comedy about Gus, an alcoholic polar bear who suffers from depression because his home is melting. but when all the penguins move up to the north pole because the south pole’s melted he decides its time to take actions and teams up with a mentally instable treehugger girl to save the world. unfortunately he sucks at it because…. well… he’s a polar bear.
Gus was kind of a challange, a great one tho, but designing the retarded penguins was fun!
More on this later!

i probably went a bit too crazy with the overlays here, but i dont care, this little bastard is waiting for me to come back and i hope to design some colour concepts for him in the summer

Animation

probably an effects animation test? but more like a stress reliever...

Fun with Sai

Trying to figure out the watercolour techniques in Paint Tool Sai.

Upgrade comic is a great thing, go read it here