| Character Designs In this assignment, there are two characters: Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is another classic confrontation between good and evil. Design the characters to play on this situation and exploit it. You can design the characters as stereotypical if you wish or you may try something different. Explore the possible designs through a series of rough character design sketches. The style on this is up to you. Just remember the principles of structure, proportion, volumes, and anatomy. Review your course notes and read through the “Designing Cartoon Characters For Animation” book to refresh your memory. The costumes of the characters must follow the story line. Dr. Jekyll is dressed in a lab coat and as he transforms into Mr. Hyde his lab coat is shredded. Don’t make it out of spandex. If you decide to design the characters as animals, they should be anthropomorphic (he can walk on his hind legs like a human). His hands should be hands, not paws. Storyboards You must storyboard all the scenes scripted. Don’t add any scenes to this sequence. Provide the appropriate number of panels / poses as you feel is necessary to clearly describe the action from the script. Approach this in two steps: 1) rough thumbnails to work out the camera angles and composition and 2) final clean up storyboards from the thumbnails with the characters clean and on model with the backgrounds clearly indicated. Remember to consider the composition of the environment shown in the location design. Plan out your camera shots using a floor plan and rough these views out as thumbnails. Think about options to your camera angles, could you shift the position to make the composition stronger? As you plan out your shots be careful not to cross the axis line. This sequence should be easy as there is only one character however he does have fairly elaborate movements. Provide enough poses to clearly indicate the action taking place within the scene. Remember the principles of animation: stretch and squash, anticipation - action - reaction, S curves and C curves, acting, and emotion. Be sure to provide match cut poses as necessary. |
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