SandMan Expression sheet

This is pretty close to where i want this character interms of style and design. hope you like.

layout test

a quick little colour key and layout test. hope you like it. this is the sort of style that i'm going for

Milo concept

A drawing inspired by a pose i saw in the jungle book and then changed completly to make this one . If you ever get stuck for a pose for a character some times its nice to steal a couple of poses from other people and then make them your own. This also i find helps you loosen up and create poses that you wouldn't think of before while getting you away from drawing the same 6 poses that you are comfortable with anyway.

Milo concepts

A little more consistent drawing of milo

Milo concepts - very rough

some of these concepts are very rough. The idea that i think that i'm going for is the far left or the far right.The funny thing about these concepts is that they look a bit like one of my cousins when he was this age

Concepts-Sandman

These are some very rough concepts for the sandman character. The model still needs a lot of work.

Dreamer
Director; Patrick Semple
4th year final film

Synopsis

The short opens with a city setting(somewhere between Amsterdam and Annecy.) , Its night time . The stars and a half moon are giving a beautiful light to the buildings. The sandman enters by jumping into screen and landing on roof tops and jumping off them again. As the sandman is moving a trail of magical dust follow him. Cuts to a boy trying to get to sleep in a bed.. The sand man is jumping over more roof tops. The sandman lands into a bedroom . There is a child trying to get to sleep . The sandman walks across the room towards the child. The sandman steps on a toy or an instrument or something which makes an noise. The child unaware of anyone in the room turns around to see what caused the noise . The sandman disappears into his cloak and vanishes before the child can see him. The child turn back around and try to get back to sleep. The sandman reappears and spreads his magic dust on the child.
The child slips off into a dream land with explosions of color synced up to music while he is flying though the air. The boy come's out of his dream to find the sand man has gone . He looks out his window and see nothing but the towns buildings then he lays back down in his bed .

Treatment

A traditional hand drawn animated film, with background styling similar to 101 Dalmations. A use of flash , Aftereffects,Photoshop, Illustrator and Premier will be used also to animate and composite. The animation will be musically driven meaning that the it will be synced before hand

Music

The music at the beginning will be use to created atmosphere and convey the characters emotions and feels. While once the child character slips into his dream sequence the music will be syncopated to the animation of explosions of color . An example is in rataouile where one of the rats eats the food and the background fades away and there is color explosions to the beats of music.