~Froggie~

Woot~! This whole day was more like really doing my frog character design.

I did some loose sketches of some frogs to get the hang of it at first. It was then did I progress on to designing the frog. One thing for sure, I wanted my frog to look creepy but not TooOO creepy as my target audience are the children. Thanks to my friends, I managed to finalise the frog design. Comments given for the final frog is that it looks scary yet cute at the same time -Amusing comment I must say.

These were the loose sketches:




Now here comes the digitalizing IT part.

I didn't faced any problem while drawing the frog in front and quarter view but as I drew the side view, it looks so horrible. I seek Adeline and Yi Chuin opinion and they said the frog looked rather squash. I tried my best but yet it looks so weird.
Thanks to Mr. Ronald for saving my day, i got a side view of the frog at last.
Whoopie~~



Not forgetting, when I mentioned my story to Shermin. She adviced me to forgo the part where the girl would fall to the grass patch and see the monsters and run and fall into the well. This I have to agree after analysing myself. Indeed, first of it would seem rather ridiculous and may pull my audience off, secondly with this scene cut off it also can help cut down my work load and in fact make my message straight to the point.

Which was like killing two birds with one stone. Hanis too agreed with her suggestion; saying that it would be like a comedy seeing a girl falling on a grass patch.

So there we have it- A finalised storyline. I shared this to Mr. Ronald and he mentioned that along the way the storyline will change and be finalised.

So when I got back home, I coloured the frog. It was really a tough decision to have flat colours for the frog. If i really use flat colours the frog may look boring. I used two colours but it looked so wrong; so I used abit of toning.

Guess I may use flat colours if I really want to animate lots of them.



Comments are welcome and suggestions for the colours of the frogs.
Oh..The frog character design is incomplete.

So yup.. I have to quickly finish all my character design before I can start on doing my 3d background for reference purposes.

[Shermin introduced this site to me which is very true...
indeed humans are not perfect.. if we are, we would be God..]

http://trappedinthemindofinvsiblegirl.vox.com/library/post/45-life-lessons-by-regina-brett-celebrate-growing-older.html

45 Life Lessons by Regina Brett (Celebrate Growing Older)
Signing off,
Vivien