BOUNCING CHARACTER

Bouncing character sketches and designs

LIFT, PUSH and PULL

Reference sketch

MOOD CHANGE WALK

Reference sketch

SILENT MOVIE

Initial reference sketch

LIP SYNCH

The theme I chose for this project was “The Day the Animal Spoke”.
The line and character I came out with was a cow, chewing grass but accidentally bit a screw and lost his teeth, saying “Excuse me, I thought you know I’m herbivorous, right?”
Originally there was another line “but not plasticivorous” came in this. The plasticivorous is a made-up word, meaning an animal that eats plastic, intended to show people are littering plastic everywhere in a humorous way. Somehow it would be too long if this line included.

Initial draft

Here above are some research and character designs. I mainly focused on the expressions, such as how the cow moves his eyeballs, and how his nostril changes when his emotions change.

Positioning sketches

Gestures change research

Expressions change and eyeball movements sketches

Lip sync research

For the character line, I chose cantonese instead of speaking in English. And since the pronunciation way is quite different, I recorded the mouth shape of myself speaking and sketched out how the mouth move when speaking.

Animatic process