Arkavision

Note to self, never call a concept final.

I’ve drawn a new concept, which is telling me that I should draw even more concepts.  Here is Eugene running alongside his pet cat Herbert, the landing gear you see is part of the space ship he pilots.  It’s becoming painfully obvious that Eugene is utterly generic in every possible way, and his cat isn’t especially interesting either.  Expect more concept work of these two in the future.

I’ve decided to continue the Zaar character modeling project.  I considered making it part of the Spaceboy project, but the styles are a bit different and they wouldn’t go well together.  I haven’t done anything new to it recently, though I forgot to post the latest work here.  I modeled the teeth and improved the nose, among other things.

Yesterday I designed the first space ship you’ll see in the short film.  It’s quite a bit bigger and more angular than the one Eugene will pilot.  It’s sharp edges and vertical front end makes it look sinister, like a cross between the Star Destroyer and the Event Horizon.  The ship itself doesn’t have a name yet, but its project name is Abductorship.

I have also turned a scene near the beginning of the short film into an animatic – or at least a small section of the animatic, about 13 seconds long.  There’s very little to see, so I won’t show it yet, but I’m experimenting with a work flow by making it.  Basically I’m skipping out on writing the script.  I’ve written the full story for this short film (which is to be part one of a short episodic series), and I’m going directly from that to storyboard and animatic.  Additionally I’m putting together the animatic at the same time I make the storyboard in an effort to keep myself interested in this project.