YCN character development #2

My next step was importing all my characters into photoshop to bring them to life, i was not just adding colour but also putting each part of the body into seperate layers so when i place them into After Effects each part of the body will move seperatly i work hard on each one to make them feel alive and to add character to each, i think the colour of each one really works. I also added more background textures and more accessories for example the ball and the t.v and also the background for the football scene.

YCN character development

Once i was happy with my drawings i scanned them in and experimented with how i could define the edges, i tried Photoshop and Illustrator and i preferred to use illustrator to created the outline for my characters, i also created a goal net for the football scene.

YCN character creation

The idea i came up with i thought was decent so i began creating the characters, i decided on making 4 scenes, football scene. With the grandad and the grandson. Videogame scene, again with the grandad and grandson, Racing car scene with the grandma and finally the karaoke scene with both the grandad and grandma, here are the characters i created for each scene.

YCN project idea development #2

Now that i had picked my brief, and had a vague idea of what it was i wanted to do i started thinking of ideas, my first idea was to visit a elderly home and have somebody film me interacting with the elderly and doing various activities like play chess or other board games just to show that they may be old but can still be fun, although i hit a massive wall with that idea since all the elderly homes i visited or spoke to on the phone would not allow me to film for many reasons, though this took up some time i had to rethink what i was going to do.

 Here i had a brainstorm of what to do, i realised i should create my own cartoons of grandparents doing activities instead of filming them, so i planned out various acivities i could make my cartoons do such as play football with the grandchildren or play videogames with the grandchildren, and activity to make it look as though my point is coming across

 Having got some activites that i thought would work good i notted down what i would need for them e.g if i was having grandma in a racing car i would need to create the racing car and the road and so on.

i was then planning out some other features for example i wanted to reinforce my point i was getting across so i thought up some quotes i could include in my animation just to give the audience a better understanding of what was happening.

YCN project idea development

 This brief was a live brief i had a choice from the YCN website to pick a brief of my liking and i chose the Grandparents day for a flower company, Interflora.
The brief explained to create a animation, or a logo to support grandparents day for their company. My general idea was two aspects, show grandparents are just as active as young tennagers and also how they have been there for us our whole life. To get them two ideas and bind them within the interflora company.

Here i created 2 moodboards just to show a visual example of my idea.