Animatic With Sound

Final Post

Well...here's everything I have. 

Some Progress

Here is what the street scene might look like:

Character in progress:

The character hasn't turned out as well as I would like, but it's getting there I guess.  

Lastly, here is a quick render of the stage. This also needs some work..

Added Color

I just quickly added some color to my character model and the stage layout.

Additional Research and Inspiration

Emmett Kelly is one of the most famous hobo clowns in history.  He became a full-time clown in the early 1930's, and his character was known as "Weary Willie."  One of his most famous stunts was trying to "sweep" away the spotlight.  I used this image as a reference for one of my character poses.

This clip is a good example of Emmett Kelly in character.  I plan on using this as reference for the facial animation on my character.  

Although he is not a clown per-say, Charlie Chaplin is one of my main inspirations, in general and for this project.  I based my character design greatly on his famous "Tramp" image.  

I'm not sure who the artist is for these paintings, but I also used these, mainly the one on the left, for inspiration.

#13a, b, and #15 Production Progress

I'm trying to catch up here, so I am just combining three posts into one.  Below is my storyboard, and progress from two class periods.  I will be coloring these in at some point.


Story:
My story is about a sad clown, most commonly know as The Sad Hobo.  My character is sitting on the street, reading a newspaper, when he glances at his suitcase (which is used to collect coins), and notices that it is empty.  This causes him to perform a trick, in hopes of attracting some attention.  When the trick is over, the only witness seems to be a tumbleweed passing by.  This saddens the clown even more, so he slumps back down onto his crate.  At this time, the camera will zoom in until one of the clowns eyes fills up the whole frame.  The camera will zoom back out and will show the same character in a different location, which is a circus stage.  The clown performs the same trick, and when he is done, a large audience is heard applauding and cheering.  The clown bows, and when he stands back up, the camera once again zooms in until his whole eye takes up the frame, then zooms out again.  Once zoomed out, we are back with the clown on the street where he is still sitting on the crate.  The ending shot is a close-up of the clowns face, and a single tears rolls down his cheek.

Character Model:

 

Prop designs:

 

Background design for the stage:

#14 Falling Leaf

I did this pretty fast, therefore it's not that good, and I didn't do any lighting.