The Animatic is taking a little longer than planned, but this week I continued working on the character designs. Once we'd decided on the type of child we were going to work with, I went and designed a few outfits based on what I imagined a kid who watches 90's Saturday morning cartoons to look like, since that was my main inspiration for what I envisioned for the TV ad sequence. I intended to do some research into 'Care Bears' and other cartoons from that era. When designing the bear, I first went with quite a traditional one capable of standing on its hind legs, with tiny beady eyes. Of course I played around with a few other animals and costumes for it, and then tried something completely different just for fun - reducing the character to a literal circle and building cute elements into it. Later I made alterations based on the fact the story was now taking place in the 1950’s. Corey sent me a couple images of typical schoolchildren outfits for the t...
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