Reflective Statement | Character | Year 2

This project was quite hard for me as initially I didn't want to choose the wildcard and spent a few weeks trying to form my project around the 2 options that I had been given. Once I realised this wouldn't work for me, I changed my idea to the wildcard and chose a pet store. This seemed to make more sense but I was still struggling on how to fit the sound clip into my work.

When I finally decided to base my story around guinea pigs, I did a lot of research which backed up my knowledge that I already knew from owning 2 guinea pigs when I was younger. I wanted to step outside my comfort zone of drawing humans and try to draw animals for a change. This gave me many issues due to the fact that the guinea pig skeleton and shape is against everything I knew about drawing animals and creatures. A lot of drawings I was creating were scrapped and scribbled out before they were even finished as I knew that the body shape was all wrong. I should have kept these and asked for more help than I did but part of me was determined to battle through these struggles on my own. This stubborn approach ultimately shrank my potential for this project.

Drawing guinea pigs was a lot harder to do than I ever imagined and I struggled deciding if they should be more cartoon like and risk loosing the guinea pig shape, or to make them more realistic, which ultimately destroyed my chance to make them into fully developed characters with personality.

If I was to redo this project, I feel that I would have to ask for help more often than I was willing to do this time around. I would also keep all drawings even if I didn't like them or didn't complete them as this could have helped to show my development and documented my struggles.

Character Work | Character | Year 2

Character ALL by Beckie Ryan on Scribd

Character Design | 10th Jan 2017

Character Pre Production by Beckie Ryan on Scribd

8 from Beckie Ryan on Vimeo.

Props | Colour Test | Character | Year 2

These are the main props that will be used in the guinea pig hutch. I've tried to keep it limited so that the scene doesn't look cluttered. This was my first colour tests for the water bottle, food bowl, cardboard tunnel, hut, and 2 different piles of hay.

When creating the original colour tests, I quite liked the way that I had created colour co-ordinated water bottles and bowls so I decided to apply this to all of the props as this could be a nice feature and could be slightly more pleasing to the eye than an assortment of colours littering the hutch.

Pet Shop | Colour Tests | Character | Year 2

Pet Shop | Inking Up | Character | Year 2

Following on from my initial drawings, I used Illustrator to ink up all five of the shops that I had drawn. From these I will be taking my favourite 2 shops and creating some colour comps before I decide on the final shop.

Pet Shop | Initial Ideas | Character | Year 2

 This are my 5 original Pet shop drawings in pencil. Although they are a bit rough, it was more about shop size, shape for windows, doors and signs and position that I was looking at

Character OGR | Year 2

Character OGR by Beckie Ryan on Scribd

Initial Guinea Pig Drawings | Character | Year 2

Guinea Pigs | Research | Character | Year 2

Scruffy Guinea Pigs

Close up view of Guinea Pig feet

View of mouth, nose and teeth

Long haired Guinea Pigs

Cartoon Guinea Pigs

Sleek Guinea Pigs

Size comparison of baby Guinea Pigs to adults

Script Idea | 3 Little Piggies | Character

This is my idea for the character project

Location: Wildcard - Pet store

Opening - Pet store front. 

We see a guy walk into the shop and hear the bell ring. Close up on the guinea pig pen. Close up of guinea pigs. Squeaking is heard. Close up of the father, licking his paw and smoothes out the younger guinea pigs hair out of his eyes. It flops back into place. The father says “So you know, the worse you look, the smarter they think you are” 

Camera turns to the fathers face to see dumb, vacant expression. Father looks considerably ‘worse’ than the son. The camera cuts to a 3rd guinea pig being lifted out of the pen by the shop owner for the customer. Camera shows face of 3rd guinea pig. It shows a very scruffy looking creature. Camera cuts to the son shouting up to the 3rd guinea pig “oh they’re gunna think you’re a genius Brian!”