Sometimes I get too excited and deviate from what I'm working on, even if it was a previous deviation from what I was working on (you still following). I've doubled back and threw in some textures on my Dead Animal Party moose concept art. You can view the progression from sketch to textured in the image above.
My last post I started with the story I was going to animate and I left you with some concept art as well as a test animation. So again I come bearing gifts as well as the end of my story idea. Enjoy the concept art and the end of the story!
At last they came to a clearing in the woods. On one side was a table containing a bowl of punch, a bag of sour cream and onion chips and a vegetable platter. On the opposite side of the clearing was another table containing name cards that read “Hello. My Name is ___________” as well as party hats. The souls made their way into the clearing grabbing their nametags and party hats. More animals appeared at the edge of the clearing. A moose with an exposed rib cage drank from a red plastic cup while a bear missing an arm, stood in the center of the clearing telling a joke. Everyone laughed except the turtle whose head was now where his foot used to be. The party continued until the sun appeared above the tops of the trees and the souls began to fade. The clearing was now empty except for a few party hats that had been left behind and a nametag that read “Hello. My Name is Flattened Squirrel”.
So I'm working on a new short animation, applying what I recently had an epiphany about last week. I've completely written the story already and am about to move into storyboards. To give you a feel for what the animation will be about I'll post the first paragraph of the story as well as a bit of concept art I had completed today. Enjoy!
The dead squirrel laid by the side of the road, flattened except for his tail, which pointed straight up, then left, and then back up again. As the cars passed by the squirrel’s soul rose from his dead body, slowly lifting up. His soul mirrored that of his body, flattened except for his crooked wiry tail. Moving from the side of the road into the trees, he marched slowly to some unknown destination. In the woods a bird, completely spherical, bloated by the sun and head of the day joined him. Next came a deer, who would have seemed perfectly healthy if his head wasn’t twisted completely around to face his rear. The last to join this mutilated soul parade, marching through the woods in the middle of the night was an orange tabby cat whose two halves of a body were being held together only by his intestines. They marched on in a single file line under the full moon, passing by a pond that gave no reflection of the souls of the flattened squirrel, the bloated bird, the twisted deer, or the two halves of cat.
Although Clouds is still in progress I always like to explore new ideas and concepts. So I've begun to play with my new idea which revolves around an older man who collects keys... well that's as far as I've gotten but the image is burned into my brain so I had to create it.
Heres a little taste of the image. Even though it's not finished I just had to share what I did so far because I just love the image so much.
One of my favorite things to look at for a film is the concept art that was created before the film was made. Some of the coolest concept art, to me, is animated films, because there are so many ways the film could have gone stylistically.
So here is my first true concept art work for my next film. I hope you enjoy it, also feedback is great.
