Expression and Position Sheets

After producing the finalised characters, I decided that it would be necessary to produce some design sheets that would show different examples of expressions and positions, to get an idea of how each character would go about expressing itself and the kind of energy they would give off. I kept them quite rough and sketchy, and also left in the construction lines I used to draw from. I kept these in because it shows part of my creative process.

There will be certain moments during this animation where the animals show specific emotions, for example, the robin often looks quite disgusted or distressed, especially when it is in conversation with the wolf. From very early on, Emma and I decided that we wanted all of the characters to stay quite stationary. Settling on the position for the wolf and the boar was quite easy, we knew the robin would be stood, and the boar sitting, however we both carried out further research into the way in which wolves position themselves. I did use this expression sheet as a process to figuring out what position would be best to place the wolf in. 

This step was also really helpful because I was able to figure out how the robin would express emotion through her eyes. In her design, she does not have eyebrows, so instead I decided to use the lining above her eyes which separates the belly colourings and the outside colourings. After playing around with different expressions it became clear that using this line as the eyebrow would work really well with portraying emotion.