One of the big advantages of working on a 3D show over a 2d show is that it’s easier to keep the character on model! The problem with 2D shows is that you have so many artists touching the characters at various stages that it is essential you keep them all drawing the character the same way or the model can drift and end up not looking right.
Because we had created Olivia as a 3D model, it meant that she would always look the same, although animators still have to keep her movements on model so that the things she does still feels like it is Olivia and not something another character might do.
Anyway, one of the things this freed up was that we didn’t HAVE to have the storyboards on model. Of course we still had to ensure that Olivia could not be doing things in the storyboards that were out of character, or things that her rig wasn’t physically capable of doing… and believe me there were lots of them! The problems of working with characters with big heads and small arms are endless!
So as a result we had a lot of different artists giving us THEIR versions of Olivia. Here are some below & I hope you like them.
These are drawn by Gary Blatchford:
This was a great gag but ultimately it didn’t make it into the show, as it would have been a bit irresponsible of Dad to leave William hanging from the doorknob like this 
Here is a different style of storyboard artist, this time by Greek artist, Nondas:
You can see that he has gone really loose in the way he draws the characters but he still gets a lot of energy across. This design is an old version of Julian also. He was a spotted pig at one point but we just couldn’t get his texture looking right so we went for a single colour in the end.
Some people also had a go at sculpting Olivia. Conor McMullin made this for himself so he could use it as a rference for drawing Olivia from different angles when he was storyboarding:
This is a model created by Grazyna Chyla-Kaczmarek (we commissioned Grazyna to create the model of Granny O’Grimm which you can see here) but she did Olivia for fun and it sat on the desk of her husband Juliusz when he first joined Brown Bag:
Then of course we have some of the drawings done by our target audience. Here are a couple from our head of Post Production Brian Gilmore’s (daughter Mia (aged 7!)
Great job Mia!
Hope you enjoyed seeing these different versions of Olivia. Please send us any examples you might have yourselves & we can do up a page at a later date!
