i see a face. developing characters and gif ideas

i chose the characters that got the best reaction from feed back from the group crits and pushed the development of them forward. the first idea to pushed forward was the little dude character that was based on facial expressions. 

my idea for this character was to be expressive with facial expressions. because gifs are silent i wanted the expression to do all the talking and to be over expressed and over the top.

i chose to study and reference from kids animation film despicable me and despicable me 2 because i knew there as creatures in them films that are known for expression and using that to communicate because they don't really talk. i then watched paranormal for a different side of expression research with that been a stop animation of clay work.

  

developing the dude was fun and it was one of them moments were you just get lost in daring pages and pages. good music, good cupper, god development<good evening! i felt i had exhaustedly drawn the character and came to a happy ending of this man. i felt i had got the expressions i was aiming for.

have you ever just watched someone make a cup of tea? the expression they pull when they think people are not looking and the faces they pull to do the sympelist of things. its really funny. the eyebrows rise when they team the water into the cup the tongue stocks out when they are adding the sugar! basic observation of uncontolling facial expressions has ben a key factor into developing this chaacter.

experimenting with expression to fit his daft super hero character.
i wanted a serious batman face ail look to this one but some comic value too
 

 experimenting with clothing.

                         

creating ideas for this dudes gifs.1

i wanted this gif to have the character in situations that allow the face to be the volume and the voice. 

above! frame 1 is the character slowly creeping onto frame with a puzzled looked face. 

            frame 2 the character kicks back and laughs wen he sees the viewer 

            frame 3 realises that he's been laughed at and that people are really so he walks slowly back

            frame 4 starts to run away 

            fame 5 falls flat on his face then eventually somehow removes him self from frame 

     

 idea 2

above! fame 1 dude slowly creeps into frame
           frame 2 laughs
           frame 3 stats to do a gag dal of facial expressions
           fram 4 he continues then a hand comes into shot and slaps him in the face
           fram 5 hand has dlepped him of shot

idea 3

above.   frame 1 dude is lowering him self down with super hero face
             frame 2 dude is yanked by the cable that is stuck
             frame 3 dude is yanking and tugging at the cable
             frame 4 cable snaps
             frame 5dude falls from fame

on a previous task (that was blogged before this) i drew a skipping robot i loved the idea that this could be a gif so i pushed the robot forward.

quick drawing of the character that will be skipping through my gif.

 i started to realise the difficulty i will have developing the skipping robot so i drew a basic skeleton of a skipping robot, just two elements in the motion that will allow me to visually brake it down and piece it together.

pushed this forward to a future robot skipping. then i had the idea of having the robot from the future skipping through lasers and bombs

why not give him a gun! and make him running through a war zone. a future robot running though lasers and in the background have rockets shooting through the air.

gif idea for running robot.

all frames are the robot running. all frames will have lasers passing through the figures body. as if he's just missing them. on the odd frame there will be a missile screaming through the air.

the bird didn't need much pushing forward as its going to be a observationally drawn bird

 but my idea for the gif was to capture the fast flickering movement of the bird. fast head movement and maybe a quick flutter across the branch.