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Tone Death Day 11

Date: 25/01/2019
Hours: 8:30am-12pm, 1pm-4pm, 6:30pm-7pm (7 hours)
What I did:Today I focused on making some final adjustments to Todd's turnabout, why I did this was because based on feedback I changed his hand so it was then bigger and easier to model. How I did this get reference of a hand where all the fingers were spaced out, the reason why is because if all the fingers were spaced out it would be easier to see each individual finger and thus easier to model. This resulted in the hand being larger, however that did not affect the overall look. I also made this change to Charlie since his hand was in the same situation so I made the change to his hands too.


After making the adjustments I went onto finishing off the initial thumbnails for the storyboard. I set out to sketch the outline, the reason why was since these were the initial concepts it would make more sense to keep them rough since the likelihood of them changing would be very high. I managed to sketch out these thumbnails the way I originally intended after the feedback thus making my work process quick and efficient. I have now learnt how to sketch outline better whilst also communicating what I want, I will continue to practice on this aspect on the future so I can do it the best I can.





















I then started to work on sketches for death, the reason why I did this was to get an idea of how he would appear during the story and also since I haven't drawn them yet and I felt that practice would be good before the storyboard. I kept my sketches rough so I could do multiple ones. The way I imagined on death appearing would be by almost bleeding from the piano keys, for example the black and white from the keys would start to drip and then form a puddle then death would appear from it. How I tried to show this in my concepts was to get an image and then add the dripping effects myself to communicate what I intended, since this was an early concept I used an image if this was a later one I would've drawn the keys myself but I wanted to keep the concepts quick. I did some sketches of him emerging from the puddle and one of his skull in the puddle to get a visual idea of how he could appear. I will experiment more in ways death could appear in the coming days.



















At home I did some more sketches and I also did a side by side of death and Charlie. The reason why I did this was to get a better idea of scale for death since they were supposed to be a lot taller than Charlie. I will do more sketches to get a better understanding of their height.

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