Cram time

Neglected my blog for a long time so now I'm up to the bit where you have to cram everything in.

So then here we go...

Hanna Barbera

Another style that I wanted to look into was stuff done by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.
So some reference pictures to look at here:

Roadrunner Cartoon Backgrounds

Another point mentioned was the style of backgrounds were similar to those used in the roadrunner cartoons. So posting some more reference images.

50's Barkcloth

Just some quick referance images:

Background stuff

Working on the backgrounds for my level...
First off I started with a sky like background:

Coming from that I created a Forest style background:

After speaking to Sonia about it she mentioned the image comes off as very stylised and similar to the Eames style cartoons and 50's style Barkcloth.

Need to research this.

The second style of background was a farm style background which I'm still working on at the moment:

Trying to create a muddy field effect.

showing the 1st WIP of my sheep... oh and sticking up my ATTEMPT of a cow in flash... I need to work on it...

Small plan review...

So yeah after my big loss of maya work and a terrible time over the holidays I've pretty much had to look over the time I have left vs what I could do in that time... I've decided to pretty much give up on the 3d at the moment since I've been having nothing but bad luck with it and do my characters in flash, I've been drawing the sheep first and seeing how that goes and chat to my tutor about it at some point too...
Been feeling nothing but tired these last few months and it's affecting my work...

Really rough sketches of Farmer Joe... not that happy with it but sticking it up anyway.

Just uploading a quick background sketch for the game. I plan do add the ground the character would walk on and other objects like rocks and stuff of a seperate layer.

Helpfull stuff I'll need later links

Just putting up a couple of links to flash's action script for later...

Language reference
Tutorials