Collaborative Project: The cat chase, Car model

This is an overall Post on the Pre-Production for my collaborative project for 'The Cat Chase' It's a short toon directed by a friend form university (will add his blog to check his work out. It's top notch!)

So I will start with what I'm doing. So as a 'Generalist' I will be covering most ares such as modelling, texturing, rigging and animation.

3 of those factors come into a model I will be creating as a moving prop for the short toon. A car to be more precise.

So here are a couple of images to help me develop my design. It's based of a 1940's vehicle but 'With' a flat bonnet for easier animation purposes. 

After liking a design which was the bottom right, I then began concentrating on the little perks such as the grid to the vehicle, types of shades that I would prefer. Everyone likes a nice red car right?

Then I began looking into the paint work of how I would have it. There needed to be age and rust for the style we were after... something subtle yet bold. I had good help from the art and animation directors to guide to the 

Finally a cute littloe concept for the little car.... broom broom!
(next will be the cat chase.)

The Finishing touches to The Personal Project

So here we a Concept Image for my Character.

Very adorable if I do say so. I gave the name Pepmin, because he is the colour of peppermint and I wanted a cute name that wasn't based too much on a recognizable item. So I invented one.

And here is also the Semi-Final animatic for the CG animation. This will include sound and a symphony based backing track.

Only thing to add to this Personal Project is perhaps a couple of Rig tests and experiments to make my character more unique. 

Personal Major Project 2015- Pre-Production

This is the design run through of my character for my Person Production. This Production will durate for around 15 seconds where I will show the body mechanics of an elephant mixed with character performance.
The elephant in this sketch (relating to previous animatic)  The elephant chases and plays with a ball. I will not only be creating the character but I will also be rigging and animating it.

Here is the run through of my character design for the the elephant. not that this is yet to be completed.I only need to choose a texture design. With details imagery of textures to go along with this.

I had a go at some quick proportions to determine if I was sure on the shape of my character.

Some colour themes for my character. there was plenty to go through. gradients, culture, patterns and many many vivid colours to give it an original look. I really enjoyed looking into the African

and Indian style differences when decorating elephants. 

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after A couple of days of painful decision making I decided to go for this theme, A nice vibrant style to the elephants look, that has a circus feel to it. Nice and playful for a children's show.

A page on some cute facial expressions and action poses to give me and idea of his personality (yes, the elephants a HE)

I will upload the 3rd and final animatic soon...


This will show 3 years of CG animation within the university of south wales and what that university has taught me. I believe that this will be one of my greatest achievements within the university for not only animation quality but also production quality enough to even turn heads on industry workers within my area.