Got the first few characters sorted (just drawings, no animation)

Say hi to: Martha, Tom, Jack and Jenny

I’ve got a bit more of the city done. It now has a bookshop, a bikeshop and most importantly a pub! I’ll probably be changing a round a few trees, because at the moment they are just copied and pasted and it’s really annoying me. But I’ve got to get other things done first.

I also have properly drawn the first character. Welcome Martha! I sent her on a little walk so she can familiarise herself with the town a little.

I wanted to see if I can crop an animated sequence from the whole city canvas to match it to actual screen size. I order to to that I animated a shitty little dog and put him in part of the city. It’s starting to look alright wooohooo!

By the end of the week I wanted to have drawn all the elements for the animation so I would have 2 weeks to animate everything and a week for sound + the last few day before hand in for last min changes…. At the moment I’m way way way behind scedule. Here is where I’m at now:

The city has grown ever so slightly but this is only about 1/6 of the whole city.

I have also created a shitty version of the city to see if I can get the timing right for characters interacting with eachother but also being at the right place at the right time… This also helps to figure out how long the whole piece will be overall. At the moment I don’t think more than 3 min.

Before I forget. I also worked on a shitty little test version of how I might animate my characters. Will have to practice some more before I let anyone walk in my little city.