Minor Project: Initial Sketches of Anxiety Bird

Initial Thumbnails

Here are my first thumbnails for my Anxiety bird. The first few thumbnails I followed 100% the anatomy but realised it was crushing my ability to design. from 3 onwards I decided to keep the shape in mind but start exaggerating features to see what that would give me. I used research of birds of prey to help me draw however towards later thumbnails I noticed the anatomy of some of them look a little off. 

My Favourite Thumbnails are 3, 5 and 8. 

Once I've begun figuring out more about the larger Anxiety bird this will then make it easier to design the baby version. 

I don't have a lot of experience drawing birds so I think it will be helpful to look at more bird references and practice sketching them to help improve my overall anatomy and design process.

Adaptation B: Height Comparison and Colour comps

 My beetle characters together. I've changed Metal slightly to make him shorter and more 'stable'. 

Glass

 I'm liking 1, 2 and 6 here.

Metal

 I like 2,3 and 4 here.

Paper

 I like 1, 2 and 8.

Plastic

I like 2, 4 and 6.

Adaptation B: Cleaner thumbnails

Some cleaner thumbnails of what I've got so far. Metal, Glass, Paper and Plastic. I want to add more refinement to these and improve them.

Adaptation B: Improved Beetle sketches

Unfortunately I've been pretty ill so I haven't been able to do this as quickly as I had hoped. With some help with Alan I've moved along pretty quickly. 

Each beetle is made up of a similar shape, but slightly changed. 

In terms of Paper, Plastic and Glass I think 1 is working best, whereas Metal should have some variation of 3 or 4. 

I'm going to work on cleaner versions of these and improve them overall.

Adaptation B: Beetle sketches

Paper Beetle

I see Paper as an older more reliable character and therefore I think 1,3 and 4 are closest to what I imagine. 2 could be used for Plastic instead.

Glass Beetle

 I see glass as a confident, beautiful and sharp beetle. I think working close to 1 and 4 could help me achieve this.

Metal Beetle

 I want the metal beetle to appear strong. I quite like number 1 and 4.

Plastic beetle 

I see plastic as a younger beetle, based somewhat around childrens toys and how that looks. I like 1, 2 and 3.

Adaptation B: Initial thumbnails

 Initial thumbnails for my recyclable characters. Some of these could work, though I feel like some of the designs are just random shapes with faces on at this point. Now I've tested some shapes out however I understand which shapes will work better.

Character: Progress on turnarounds and logo

The Codfather Turnaround

Flo Turnaround

Lucas Turnaround

Here are the outlines so far of my turnarounds, there's still some lines, etc to fix but I just wanted to show what I have so far.

Logo ideas

Here's also the progress for my logo.

Character: City thumbnails

Here are some thumbnails for the city environment of my game. These still need work but I like 1,2 and 5. 

Character: Characters so far

I correlated what I have done so far to show what direction I'm heading in so far.

Character: Colour Testing

I refined my characters again and started testing colours on them. I still think some of the structure could still be fixed but I think they're looking better. 

Character: Refined Drawings

Today I worked on refining my original sketches, I considered clothes more and took more not to shape. 

The Codfather

Fox Protagonist 

Raccoon Protagonist 

I think these are getting better but could be pushed more. 

Character: Character sketches

Here are some of the sketches produced for my characters. I will refine and work with these in photoshop.

The "Codfather"

In terms of these sketches I feel that 3 or 5 captures best what I was trying to portray in terms of a mafia boss. 

 Fox Protagonist 

I'm struggling in terms of interesting clothes with my protagonists but this is something I will look more into while refining characters. I'm liking the shape of 1 but I feel he should be a little more muscular like 4.

Raccoon Protagonist 

I think my closest representation of my character here is 4. I think some of the shape could be improved but I like her hood and jacket. 

I also need to make sure all these characters look like these fit in the same world, I think some changes to the Fox protagonist would help him look more coherent with my Raccoon.

Narrative: Older Robot variations

After a brief talk with members of my group it seemed like blockier thumbnails were more popular, and that 26 was a fairly good match to what was wanted, before I attempted the concept art though I wanted to see what would happen if I incorporated other ideas people liked. 

Narrative: Older Robot Thumbnails 25-36

A

B

Taking into consideration what thumbnails my group liked and also drawing on my research into robot eras I have come up with some more refined thumbnails. I also tried out two different colours, labelled A & B to see if the robot should be a colour other than grey. 

Narrative: Robot thumbnails 11-24

Using the silhouettes that I created I made some more developed thumbnails for the older robot. I like 13, 14, 15, 18 and 21. I think they'd still need some tweaking but I think they're looking like prototypes like we wanted. 

Narrative: Robot Silhouettes

After creating silhouettes for Robots I felt that they could be useful for our Narrative project and created a thumbnail page for our 'Old Robot'. 

We want this robot to be blocky and less developed. I feel that 3, 9 and 13 could work with this idea.

Narrative: Initial robot thumbnails

We know that in our Narrative we are going to have a robot so I decided to just do some rough, quick thumbnails to start to get ideas going. I feel like 7 or 8 have some charm but would need some more design work. I think now I can see how many different possibilities these robots could have so they could have wheels instead of legs for example. 

Fantastic Voyage: Jam Jar contents

I drew a few objects inside the Jam Jars to see which kind of things would fit in best. I think most of them have potential but some things would need to be smaller and and have more of them? I also think some things should have eyes so they fit in better with other objects. 

Fantastic Voyage: Jam Jars colour and shape

I wanted to test which shapes and colours work work best. I'm liking the simplicity of 1's shape and they look most like scientific jars. As for the colour I'm not sure whether to go with a mix of colour or to stick to just one. I think the blue or green could work quite well. 

@Phil Fantastic Voyage: 'character' Thumbnails

I kept it simple and stuck to flat colour and hopefully they seem more like they come from the same universe? I'm still a little unsure which to go with. I quite like the shapes of 16 and 17 in the body cells but I also like 19 and 24. As for the influenza I gave them some more triangle shapes. I quite like 18 and 20, I think possibly 22 too.