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When delving a bit deeper into finding out who the character designers of The Owl House are i came across the artist Matthieu Cousin, Matthieu is also know for his character design work for the show OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017-2019) by Ian Jones-Quartey, i found a various amount of different sketch and concept ideas which will defiantly help when designing my character. 

I found this page of sketches i made when trying to imagine what the witch might look like when riding ion the broomstick from a back view, this was for the scene when the witch flys over the water towards the island.

I find it very magical that voice actors and actresses can bring life to a character with their personalities and skills and look forward to meeting equally talented people later in my career. 

Here is a finish coloured and lined scene for my collaborative project. i am super happy with how this turned out especially the colour of the characters and buildings. i did not use any reference for the background i completely created it from my imagination and I added a few more mice to create more of a gathering of them. I even added a highlight node to the characters to give them a bit more lighting and shadowing beneath the characters to ground them to the scene. This scene really encapsulates the meaning of the idiom I chose, and I look forward to animating it shortly.

Next i need to think about the colour of the suits the rabbits are wearing and the possible different colours of the mices fur. For the suits i search online for 1940′s gangester suits and came accross the ones above and as for the mice i searched for different coloured fancy mice and got the picture above for my references

Here is the rough sketch i did of the initial design of the rabbit and mice characters i tried to utilize the design from the images posted previously plus the scene from the film The Goodfellas.

When i was thinking of what my rabbit characters might look like i came across the first image drawn by an artist called ipoke, i really like the shape of the eyes of the character and the way the character stares so i will try to utilize this in my characters, I am not sure who drew the second image but i came across it when i was looking for character design ideas and i really like the way the character is designed especially the line work. Second i need to think about what animals would the rabbits be selling their contraband products to. i am not sure why but i decided to do mice, i remembered a drawing of a mouse character drawn by artist named SophieCabra which i really like so i decide to map my mice characters of this design.

When i think about the idiom that i chose and how it was described to me i immediately thought of doing a scene with some gangster rabbits selling dodgy things to other animals but not in the home town, first i had to think how could i show the audience that these rabbits we not just selling things on their own high street and i needed to think of a theme. When i brainstormed i thought back to the 1990′s film The Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese, in the film there is a scene of two lads selling cigarettes out the back of a car and after watching the scene again i fell compelled to recreate it with my gangster rabbit characters.