Feedback and Friends. A good combination.

After showing my current character sheet and animatic to people, I felt that a few things needed changed. My good friend Peder Kallin (who owns his own CG animation company) told me that in it's current form, he would see me next year. The character and story were still too complicated to produce on time. Seeing as he has full proper production experience, I tend to agree with him.

Doug, was far too human and realistic. So, after going over a large number of designs of the character with James Cox, we eventually decided on this:



As you can see, the character has been greatly simplified. Using simple but great animation rigs as inspiration (Animation Mentor's Stu and Andrew Silkes Generi) the new 'Doug' should be a hell of a lot easier to animate and much more fun to use. Plus, his limbs are longer and more useful - great for character animation. Also of note are the eye-brows and forehead which will be great for expressing the character when he has no lines to deliver.

Here is a version of my animatic that is undergoing some changes. Enjoy.