Final Character design

Final Design for Girl and Fairy.

Glitter 2

Added more glitters to make it more 'magical'. This is going to be one of the most fun, but time consuming part to animate.
For this I did animate individual glitters in a separate layer but I guess I can duplicate the layers and re-position it to cut some processing time.

Fairy animation development

I have developed the previous fairy animation. I couldn't work out the wings on the previous one so I have developed for this one. (Draft)

Glitter animation practise

On the butterfly scene I wanted to add a glitter effect around the butterfly to show that this butterfly is not an ordinary butterfly, it's an extraordinary butterfly. I want it to be glittery and shiny.

This is the test of the glitter effect. I think it will work with more glitter, but this is really time consuming... so I may need to think of an alternative ways.

Fairy Animation practise

I tried animating fairy's wings today.
In the film fairy won't move much apart from her wings, her body stay sitting down.

I am going to make a slight change on her wings, instead of Swallowtail Butterfly I will change the design based on Panchala Ganesa (Tailless Bushblue), which is a blue butterfly with simple wing shape.

The reason for this is to simplify the animating time, also the colour blue would stand out really well with the red mushroom.

Animation Practise - Hair Movement

Another development of Hair movement.

Layout style and Concept art

 This is the main struggle so far, deciding the layout style to match with my character.

The top image is done by me, the character stands out too much and the art style does not match.

Layout is done by 2nd Year Student Brooke Hayes, She has done cartoon-style layout which matches with my character better than my original design.

In terms of the art style I think I am heading more to the cartoon style direction, My original plan was to make the layout a bit more realistic but I found out that it would not match with the character design. To match everything I either need to change the character design into more realistic style, or change the layout which is probably better since I am happy with my character design.

I have asked other 2nd year Students to show me their layout designs, and I will compare all of them and decide the best design to match with my character design.