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.
EARLY early sketches of Arthur, Mesi and ???
Holy shit these are nearly two years old now what the heck.
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.
Okay so I’m hauling my way through my archives for pre-production stuff, and I found this dude, The Bandit, who I really love and I’m very sorry wasn’t in SKIP but them’s the breaks.
He was in one of the original versions of the film, and in the more refined storyboard for quite a long time- so, yeah, here’s the version that didn’t make it! The gag was that, since Arthur is a black and white movie character, the bandit would freak out and think he was a ghost.
Of course, people didn’t get the joke with a colourless storyboard…
I do think it would have worked in the end, but I’m much happier with the ending it has now for a multitude of reasons, and animating that shawl would have been a real killer. Anyway, thought you might like to see some of the process :)
Oh and here’s a little bonus early colour theory for the film as a whole-
