Character Turnarounds

The two characters i've been charged with modeling are now complete. Here's the turnarounds...

Final Characters...

After alot of toil and debate over what our characters should look like, we have finally decided on designs for the four main characters for our film. We spent alot of time on it and in the end we had to settle instead of using more and more of our small production time on designs. Even so, I am pleased with the way our characters turned out and so here are the turnarounds for the three characters I drew the final designs for...

Initial Designs...

So we have our story, we just need to give it a face which turned out to be alot harder than we first thought. We sat and drew hunderds of pictures in our search for the perfect characters, and soon hit a brick wall. We decided then to try a different approach and started to model characters with plastecine and in ZBrush.

Here is a small collection of some of the hundreds of sketches and models that went into the planning of style for our film.

About six months ago...

Some time ago now, around six months we started work on the story. The story itself has gone through so many changes from the initial idea to the finished screenplay we have now that it is hardly the same story. We have cut characters, removed sets, and changed the endning completely but we now have a finished story with the shots we want (which are available to see on the main production blog) so we finally were able to start with some serious concept work.

Before we had a finished story we started some rough ideas of how we might want the film to look. Here is a selection of images from the early days including some characters which no longer exist, a mood board and some train designs...