#going live module

Although our team continued to create stylised 3D tests for environments we were getting quite similar results overall and couldn't get close to what we had in mind. After receiving feedback from Wild Child about how animating in 2D over 3D backgrounds could pose technical issues we shifted our focus to wards an entirely 2D workflow.

I started off by looking into the UPA/00's Cartoon Network style we were using as reference and created a background test.

Reference:

Latest 3D tests:

Background style concepts:

As we're getting closer to settling on an overall style and look for our pitch I started to offer more detailed feedback to our team to help steer the art in a unified direction. Here are some examples:

Higher res feedback sheets:

One of the main things I focused on recently was creating guides for the environment art as can be seen below:

After a group discussion and feedback from Wild Child our team chose to go with an entirely 2D approach for our pitch, with 3D being used as a reference tool for more complex props that would need to be seen from various angles and that the characters would interact with.

To demonstrate how we would use 3D I designed a ray gun prop that matched the style of the characters, and then proceeded to model it in 3D. Using this method would make it easier to draw the weapon from different views once animation would start.