This week started with our meeting with Nicky where she gave us feedback. firstly Christina presented her sketches on the blink flag with the updated colour scheme and addition of a diver. We expressed our concerns about adding people into the design and she said to come up with some more ideas that we feel more confident about. She also suggested An appropriate timeline in which to decide on a finished concept and to have the line art completed.
Feedback:
Experiment with different hues for the blink to make it pop more whilst still using the outline colour for the sea.
Maybe do smaller people swimming through the seaweed, play with the scale of them.
By Wednesday or Thursday at the latest have a locked in design chosen.
By next Monday have the line art mostly finished
Personally, I am not too worried about getting the line art done on time because the beach balls’ line art is pretty much already done and therefore I am available to assist on other sections. Also having been the one to create the animatic, I feel experienced in the motion and it is not that complicated or time consuming. I did allocate myself the position of creating a spreadsheet detailing each element’s allocation and progress for this project.
I also spent some more time experimenting with adding people into the design, I tried to be more carefree and less protective of the design already created. The Nippets style when it comes to people is very simple and minimalistic and so it’s difficult to portray these people at different scales doing different actions whilst replicating the style. I am then able to present these designs to my group during our scheduled meeting in a couple days time so that we choose the most effective ones. I’m feeling a lot better about this design as the people feel equally spaced without taking away or overwhelming the current design.
We decided that we wanted to keep the idea of someone swimming through the logo and that we also wanted to add-in a mermaid which we decided should be positioned on the letter D. Overall, I felt like my group was quite hesitant to add in additional people as they worried it would be too much, but I ended up liking the design that I created. After deciding on our final design, we also allocated elements of the animation to each individual in order for us to complete the line art for next Monday. I was given beach ball and the kite so that they stay in sync. I created these on Toon Boom. Here is the final line art for my section.