Character consistency

Trying to get some more Picayune comics done, thought I'd post up a reference sheet I drew up which I'm hoping will keep the proportions of the characters a bit more consistent. Hopefully be posting some new comics soon. Just trying to decide wether to design a new website or to just post 'em on the blog or a tumblr maybe. Played around with a wordpress site but not sure I can afford the hosting. The old website had to be abandoned as it was designed in an old frontpage program which won't work on my new machine so for now the blog is taking it's place.

Yeti's

I sketched these characters in my notepad at work a while ago. Decided to ink them up and colour 'em. Think these two would make an interesting duo, might have to play with some story ideas for them. Good exercise in character design anyway.

Dark Matter

Been sketching a spaceman character in my notebook. Really enjoying playing about with a sci-fi theme and thinking up ideas for a possible short film. Threw in some robots for good measure too.

It's a bit early for poster design but I wanted to do a sorta concept sheet, with the main characters and the title. I can put this with the pitch materials but basically I'm making this without funding anyway.... so it's just for fun.

I actually started animating the first shot yesterday! It will give me a chance to try some things out and define the style, and I've picked a shot that I really like to start with and it's a lot of fun so far. I'm still storyboarding it but since I don't like getting bogged down in one area I'll move about onto different departments (storyboard, background, layout, animation, colouring etc) as and when I get the inspiration. That way I'll always be fresh.

Character sheets for my new project "The Von Spleen Experiment". I have had this project in slow development on story, character design, etc for about a year now and it's beginning to shape itself into a ready for production project. I am planning on getting some close friends to contribute some work in their particular fields of expertise, partly just to keep things interesting for me. I am planning a 6 month schedule for this which is 6x that of my previous film "K-9Lives Episode1". I think it will be important to aquire some outside assistance if only to keep my own inspiration levels up.

Unless I get some freelance work this is what I'll be working on for some time now so expect more of this to come over the following weeks.