animation time :)

i have been looking a different ways the smoke may look wen it comes out

in my designs for my character ive been hinting at a black smog coming out of his mask this is intentional as it will be part of my interaction with the character.

in my character i used a lot of influence in the way he moves from yosemite sam because sam walks always like he is in a mood and i wanted to try and encorporate as best as i could his style of moving into my character as tho the slighttest thing would send him the wrong way and i wanted to convey that in the way he walks.

i thought that i may have my character get so cheesed of that he completely looses his temper to the point were he changes everything around him but this is only an idea that i may want to do later if i have a chance

this is my character as u can see ive encorporated the mask heavily in his design as i have made every part of his body simple and kept his face the main focus as i want his facial features to be showing of most of his emotion in the animation i want the viewer to be able to tell that he is angry or frustrated with the way his face may change.

ive been looking at gas masks to get a representation of what a gas mask looks like it has given me great ideas for how i need to approach the design of my character in terms of look as i can actually see a face in the mask itself, this should make it easier for wen i come to designing the character,

i want to try and encorporate as much from the mask as possible to make the character as belivable as i possibly can.

here im trying to experiment with different types of headgear that could go on my character

maybe a mask is where i should be going ? maybe the face lyes in a mask maybe i could have something to with the mask as my interaction.

colour, background ? is it needed ? here im just trying to get a feel for what kind of shape my character could be ?

some more expression is needed in the interaction what could it be that he does ??

these characters are to give me a better understanding of the poses i may want to have my character do wen i come to animating the interaction its also giving me ideas on a style...i want my animation to have a lot of energy

doing characters i thought i may give him something to interact with it may have made it easier to come up with something for him to do wen it comes to animating my final design

character design 1

for the first set of designs i did for my character i decided to just get a feel for what i wanted i wanted to go with a creature of somekind because i felt i could just exaggerate the features more believably when it came down to animating the final animation in flash