CHARACTER DESIGN - THE CREATION OF MAN!
Apologies for the lack of making-of posts recently but as you will read we have been very busy and lots of things have been checked off our extensive to-do list…
In the last post we saw how the Man’s design was being redesigned for the better by Nicky Phelan. Well now we can reveal the final version of the man!
Here he is in lovely 2D…
Oh but wait that’s not all!
You also have the privilege to be the first to see him in glorious 3D!
Massive thanks have to go to Eoin Kavanagh for the modelling, and Rahul Mishra for the fantastic rig.
As you can see we really stuck to the gorgeous 2D design while modelling, and as it moves onto texturing we will still be keeping this 2D feel. The textures will be flat like the 2D image and we will be doing some shading and compositing tricks to try and also keep the line quality.
Andrew Hamilton is currently doing the textures for the Man so I will be hopefully posting images of that soon. Design of the pigeons will also follow very shortly with new posters.
In other news…
We have received all of the fantastic storyboards from Andy Kelly and I have finalised editing them. The boards that Andy did are truly amazing and I will have to do a post about them in the future.
So now I need to send that finished animatic to the Irish Film Board for approval this week and hopefully we can crack on with animation before Christmas!
PROGRESS IS GOOD!!!
8 comments so far
Looking good Richie!
15 December 2011
12:15 pm
Wow…great 3d likeness…only difference I can see is the curve where the legs meet body. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out! Good luck.
15 December 2011
12:42 pm
Looks great guys!
15 December 2011
4:47 pm
The Character looks great and should be really nice to animate with.looking forward to seeing a fully textured render.
19 December 2011
10:43 am
Richie, it looks great!!
19 December 2011
11:11 am
Guys well done on your news today fab!
21 December 2011
4:05 pm
I love this guy! What’s Man going to be used for? He looks like an awesome animation movie character. I’d go see a movie to see this guy talking.
//Beth @ the Phoenix Graphic Design
5 January 2012
7:00 pm
Thanks folks, I’m really glad your liking it.
@Beth, the Man is the star of Brown Bag’s new short film “Bird Food” that will be premiered in July this year at the Galway Film Fleadh. It will then tour the circuit so if you can’t make Galway in July it will hopefully be coming to a festival near you in the future.
6 January 2012
9:57 am