Props !

How seeds from past and present would sprout if I ever animated it ....

Petite description en dessin de la germination des graines présent / passé.

Present

 

Past

Kakemono

Yes, you're supposed to do the film before the poster. But I don't see any fun in doing things the right way.

Posing posing....

 

Raw Turnaround

Chara design update

 

Here, have a smile.

Just came back from the printer. The result is total shit. Maybe the fact that she didn't know how to read my USB with her computer should have warned me. And also that she insisted in printing in RGB instead of CMYK because it "looked better".
Well, back to the start !

Happythankyoumoreplease

>> Click for better view <<

More wood

What's the best visual for a forest you would want to live in ?

I need to dig a little more ... Someone, bring me more wood !

Last retake of the Griffin

As promised.

Last retake of the Charadesign

So, as I said, the short has two periods, the first in the past and the second in the present.
Between these two times, the character overcomes a lot of changes...
Le court est scindé en deux partie, un flash back et le présent. Entre ces deux époques, le faune a connu quelques changement.

(I have still not decided which purse I'll be using  :/ )

Props

The character's purse.
It is important we understand it contains seeds precious to the faun, so I ran a few tests...
Can't find wich one is the best...

Pour la sacoche du Faune, il est important que l'on comprenne tout de suite ce qu'elle contient (des graines auxquelles le faune tient par dessus tout).
Voici toutes les options disponibles :)

Making of.

For a scroll down of the entire making of in chronological order, with just pictures and video :

Ancient Times making of

(daily updates... maybay )

Site temporaire du making of (la différence avec ce blog : seulement en images et vidéos, dans l'ordre chronologique de création et seulement sur le court métrage Ancient Times )

Background Concept

The very first scene start with a mushroom. Gotta have a catchy mushroom, then !

Griffin - Side View

Line test

The only purpose of this animation was to understand how the character will move in its expressions

Cela ne sera pas dans le court, c'était un petit exercice pour obtenir une palette d'expressions :)

Concept design griffon 2#

 

My two favorites.

Still some digging about the "armor"  on the Bad version.

Mes deux favoris, même si je ne suis pas encore satisfaite du côté de l'armure du "Méchant griffon".

 

Concept design - Griffin

Researches on the Griffin, the second character...

Quelques versions du griffon, le deuxième perso.

Turn around !

Le personnage final ! Je changerai sûrement encore les valeurs, comme je ne suis pas encore fixée sur le rendu des décors, je ne sais pas encore avec quoi je dois l'accorder.

Final turn around of the main character :-)

(Clic for more details)

Petit zoom sur la tête 

Hope you like it !

References drawings & research

These are just drawing notes from photo references I found interesting. (For the Griffin and an other character very secondary)

Seulement des croquis extra-rapides d'après certaines photos que je trouvais intéressantes pour les prochains design.

And the veeeery first thing I put down for the design of the griffin
Et le tout premier dessin du griffon métallique... Bientôt les autres recherches :)

Since you've been good guys, quiet & all (& not there either obviously) , here's a map from a scene which gave me a lot of struggle.

Et comme vous êtes sages (et pas là, surtout), vous avez le droit à une petite carte, faite alors que je luttais pour comprendre comment devait marcher cette scène.

(I thought it was cute and reminded me of Porco Rosso ^.^)

Sketches

Last step before the final model sheet. Please bear with it a little longer :P

       Some research on the ears...

 

And some random sketches ... Trying to get the spirit of the character