It happened...

...today my main character appeared on the flyer that I was drawing on, oddly enough I was drawing on the Chinese earthquake flyer, but he just appeared on the page. A mere 2 months after starting on his evil sidekick. I was going to model him in clay first but the ceramics room was closed. It turned out that when I started modeling on the computer I didn't need there was no pre-viz needed. I might still go down and sculpt him out because it's fun to play with with the clay. Hooray for analog solutions!

Here he is...

complete with the personality he'd been lacking.

So soon...

I'll post the finished new look of the sidekick. He has a little bit more personality and you'll just have to wait.

So Mr. Worth let me in on a few key things in my sidekick guy that I didn't know until showing him the character. His knowledge of animation is far superior to my own and I'm grateful for that fact. So while I'm modeling one character the other is back on the sketchpad getting some revisions. WOOT!

Hard at work...

I've been sketching and drawing like a madman in solving the design issues with the guy in the green shirt. The sidekick, guy in red, works perfectly. I just know that there's a better design solution and I come across a few but I'll start modeling my favorite tonight or tomorrow.

That's two...

So far things are progressing along I just need to figure out how the story goes. Although I feel as though I know my villain-to-be well enough that a hard fastened script isn't necessary. He has no outside input and was instead thought up last night as I failed to go to sleep. The inspiration of this guy after days of agonizing and consulting with friends came from an i.d. card of mine from 4th grade. The sight of which made me realize that there's an 11 year gap in my life where there are no pictures of me outside of various i.d. cards. So here he is and the him side by side with his sidekick-to-be.