What I Want To Do When I Grow Up... 9/01/08

This is basically the project brief me and Kanika have been given, it sounds pretty good and meets the criteria of what we're both interested in. i.e. 2D concept Design. :)

The brief itself also requires animation, which will also require modelling from our part,
which will def be a challenge as although i'm capable of modelling environments and enjoy that, I've never really pushed myself when it comes to modelling characters esp as last time i struggled to enjoying the rigging side of things esp when they weren't working! :(


Brief C: Character Design
Source: Jon Beeston
Editor -- Axis Animation
http://www.axisanimation.com/

“We would like your students to design and animate some characters for us for a potential animated advertisement for London Zoo. We are thinking about using a visual style that reflects traditional “Claymation” techniques but will be generated using CG processes. The characters should be worked up from the following list:”

1. Willie Billiams – “A hyperactive nine year old on his first visit to London Zoo with an obsessive interest in creepy crawlies.”
2. Pocahontas Billiams – “Willie’s sister, she’s seven years old but much more relaxed and more knowing than her sibling. She wants to be a gorilla.”
3. Wilhemina Billiams – “Willie and Pocahontas’s grandmother, she thinks everything smells bad and is worried that a chimp or one of those nasty bonobos might escape and “Poo in her hat.””
4. Wee Eck McGlone – “London Zoo’s long suffering head keeper sixty, bald, curmudgeonly, Scottish, fiercely patriotic and obsessive about sweeping up dung.”
5. Cornelius – “A middle aged silver back gorilla, the most civilised and sensible occupant of the zoo by far.”