Larry Boyd Animatic

Larry Boyd Animatic from chris real on Vimeo.

Here's the Animatic for Larry Boyd.
The frames were taken directly from the storyboard and composited in After Effects.
The voices I used are a rough draft, but are along the lines of how the finals will sound.

Final Background Concept Colour

Here are the final colour concepts for the backgrounds

Final Character Colour Concepts

Here are the final colour concepts for the characters

Larry and Joe Maquette Busts

I sculpted these busts from Super Sculpey form the final designs of Larry and Joe, to see how the designs would translate into 3 dimensions before I model them in Maya.

Character Colour Concepts 1st Draft

Here are some concepts I did for the possible colour for Larry and Joe

Final Joe Character Design

So here's the final design for Joe

Final Larry Character Design

So here's the final design for Larry.

As I was playing around with different designs and doing various drafts of the storyboard he gradually became more and more this design. 

I feel like this design fits his personality and the style I was aiming for.

Background designs

 These are the 1st and 2nd draft designs for the backgrounds.

With this one I was testing a panel from the then 2nd draft Storyboard as the men approach before they get crapped on.

Background Design: Larry's House

The film starts with Larry exiting his house, which is a birdhouse on top of a telephone pole.

I decided to put it on top of a phone pole because it was the simplest way fro Larry to get onto the wire to meet Joe....... also I thought it was a fun ideaThis is the final version of Larry's house.
I kept the design very simple, but stylistically similar to the character design.

Human Character design

Here are a few designs for the human characters that Larry and Joe crap on.
I wanted to make a really simple design with no facial features besides the nose and ears, that way the rigging would only need to be for the body.
I will also use the same rig for all 3 men who get crapped on, but alter their sizes and colour of clothing.

This one above is pretty much the final design I'm going with.

Joe Pidgeon Character Designs

Here are some designs I did for joe

Larry Design: Test Sculptures

While I was designing Larry on paper I was trying out different designs with plasticine to find out what he would look like in 3 dimensions.
With these three above I was seeing what it would be like to have the character pretty much flat/one sided. I think it would look really interesting to animate in 3d.
But since I haven't done any facial rigging rigged before I wasn't sure exactly sure how I'd pull it off, so I moved on to a full 3 dimensional design, though this style is definitely something I will look into for future projects.