I’m unpacking the boxes from moving back from Canada and I keep finding all the sketchbooks I used while I was studying at VFS.
These are some Western movie sketches of Arthur and Mesi from while I was playing about with different genre ideas for SKIP
I still find these two slightly adorable :>
sooo, this is a little silly thing, gift for the lovely and awesome Sarah!
im not really expecting anyone else to understand this moahaha! xD
but uhm yeh its our characters from our final films from VFS…
THE BEST THING. YES.
Also this is Ebba’s film so yeah why not go check that out.
Bringing this back.
Because scrolling through your old drawings is always better when it involves Batman arresting your OC for murder.
someone sent me an email with this and yes well
good times
#it was just ONE tiny planned accident with a sizeable locomotive
EARLY early sketches of Arthur, Mesi and ???
Holy shit these are nearly two years old now what the heck.
No, it would be a talky, as per most movies these days :) but Arthur is a silent movie character, so no, he wouldn’t talk.
You do hear him at one point, however.
I’m amazed at how many people keep sending asks about the full feature SKIP idea, but just to give you a better idea of what I meant by SKIP being ‘an abbreviation of the idea’: I basically took the concept of a love story crossed with jumping through film genres and ran with that, keeping it to the two main characters, Mesi and Arthur.
The atmosphere and morale behind the full feature, however, would be very different. The entire story and set up is different, and the ending… well, I’ll just say the ending isn’t the same either.
These are just a couple of very crappy semi-board/concept doodles that might give you an idea of what it feels like in my head.
Sure thing- he’s from Norfolk, studied fine art in Edinburgh for three years and has a tendency to forget his umbrella.
Hero lived a very happy, normal life in Manchester with her mother and father. Her mother is an editorial writer and her father is a janitor. She had two pet guinea-pigs called Bubble and Squeak.
In their respective films, naturally. Arthur is an odd job man, the reason being that his work so often seems to end in a disastrous fashion (goodness knows why). Mesi is the first mate of an intergalactic exploration ship, and works alongside the famous Captain Horatio Drake, who isn’t very famed for his diplomacy or tact but has a very strong arm and nice hair.
Did you know that Arthur was originally designed for 3D?
I came up with the idea for SKIP at VFS after one of my character design homework assignments got out of hand; we had to design three characters for a 3D movie, but because my characters always boss me around I ended up writing the entire film. I liked the main two so much that I ended up adapting the idea into the 3 minutes short as my final film.
I still want to make the full feature some day.
