Barista progress

I have spent today working on Barista. Alex has given us a PDF which he created on how to draw stickmen which is very handy. He has also given us the script which has helped enlighten me on the story that we will be animating. I think it will look real nice visually.

After some feedback from Alex, I have started to re-plan the Act 1 Scene 1 stickmen response to their lattes. I think the bit of animation I produced before was a bit lifeless and dull so this morning I took some video reference of me acting out the happy and agitated stick men:



From this I have drawn out thumbnail sketches of possible moves for the stick men. Alex has said how he would like an over the top approach to the cartoon stick men. These drawings should be very useful in capturing their varying emotional responses in preparation for the animation.











So I took a few of my favourite poses (ie. the body wiggle!) and applied it to the stick men. This is just an animatic.. Hopefully I will be able to make it final before next week. I worked differently to the way I did before, more freely - sketching it all out.