I have my character design, so now I need to actually make the puppet. I drew out some rough armature plans and then went on to draw Aluki's armature to scale. I gathered my tools about me and got ready to begin!
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Why Hello There
Quick Turnarounds (I Say That But They Took A Fair While)
These need some colour and the one of Aluki is a bit wrong on the side profiles so I need to fix this, not really sure how I managed to muck it up (I'll blame lack of sleep) but in the broad light of day it's obviously got some issues.
Character Poses
Here are some character poses. I have some that are still uncoloured so these will appear up here soon once they are complete.
The Colours of The Arctic
I started off trying to make Aluki have quite natural Inuit colours, but then decided the film should have a blue colour scheme, with maybe a few different spot colours. Blue is a cold colour which obviously goes with the cold of the Arctic, but also the sad atmosphere that Aluki creates through her misery at Anik's absence.
There was something off about her colourings, I realised it was because her shoes were too dark. I'm not really sure why this made her look off, but as soon as I swapped some colours around she looked much better.
Stop Staring At Me!!
The Creatures were a little tricky to design. I had to make them creepy, but not too creepy so that they were scary. They needed to look annoying rather than evil, but menacing enough that you question their intentions. I liked the design with the teeth but decided this bordered on scary too much. The skinny version also had too much of a horror look about it. So I settled for more of an impish, squatting, hunched over look about it.
It's face is based on an Inuit mask design and this gave me the idea that it's face should be like a mask in the fact it doesn't move, it can only twist its head from side to side, in that creepy slightly dislocated way that horror films use. The fixed facial expressions makes it seem like the Creatures are constantly staring at Aluki and Anik, making their presence more annoying and intense. Even if the Creatures are just standing there motionless (they do a lot of loitering) they are still forcing themselves upon the Inuits.
The Creature that represents Aluki has the same body shape (although it is slightly shorter) as the one representing Anik, but its face is different. So the faces on Anik's necklace and Aluki's bangle will be different. The faces are different as they represent the two different characters. The Creatures are the same height as the Inuit they represent.
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