BA3B week 4

As needed, I created some construction sheets to help Corey with the proportions of our characters. I'm quite proud of the fathers one, with attention to detail in his slouching stance.

Here, Corey had an idea for what the factory sequence should look like, and storyboarded it - and I  made a quick animatic for it. (Corey also had this idea that we should make our own choir of voice actors to sing silly bear related lyrics to the intense orchestral music that's bound to go along with this scene.)

I also worked on creating some expressions sheets for the characters.

In the fathers expressions sheet, I wanted to show visually how I imagined the fathers emotions coming almost entirely from the positioning of his eyebrows. Corey intends to have the moustache on a wire so it simply moves up and down when he speaks.

The childs face is a little more complex, with smaller eyebrows and a smaller forehead on whic to move those eyebrows, movable eyes, eyelids, and a replaceable mouth piece. I found it easiest to convey emotion through the kids mouth piece since it's the section with the most freedom, giving him lots of room for goofy expressions.

With no eyebrows to speak of, it made sense to convey the idea of eyebrows simply by changing the shape of the eyes themselves, and again, replaceable features like these leave much more room for changes in expression.