Preproduction for Sleeping Beatuy (final project)

Pitch : I will be doing the character art for Bruce Li's parody of Sleeping Beauty. We shall composite his backgrounds with my characters using After Effects, primarily the puppet tool and making these layers as 3D billboards. Hooray!

Assets: Here is a list of the characters I am in the process of creating, using Adobe Illustrator.


-Aurora
-Nobleman
-Wife
-King
-Queen
-Fairy 1
-Fairy 2
-Fairy 3
-Evil Fairy
-Extra 1
-Extra 2
-Extra 3
-Archer
-Spindle peasant
-Spindle peasant son
-Soldier
-Nobleman horse
-Aurora baby
-Nobleman's kid #1
-Nobleman kid #2
Bruce has made a very helpful storyboard that I am following for my character modeling (as far as the kinds of poses I will have to make them prepared for). I am not quite sure if he's posted them,


Reference images/videos/audio


We've got a bit of influences, primarily the original Sleeping Beauty film from Disney and this short film that Bruce was inspired by




This has also been a helpful image!

The look we're really going for, however, is a kind of storybookish look that will also be easy to animate. This is why I'm using illustrator to keep the characters from looking messy.

Schedule
Right about now, we are in the process of creating our assets. Here's a sneak peak at some of the stuff I've gotten done so far.




And as it goes, we will continue working over the next few weeks with the assets. We're moving into a rough composite next week so that we have something to show our voice actor (the narrator), and then use the last week of class to fine tune everything for the composition. Wish us luck!