Adapting a strong graphical style to character design and construction techniques can often be difficult, but your continued development on this project has proved worthwhile. Your designs are dripping with atmosphere and the expression sheets and gestures bring the characters to life with subtlety and nuance. Your environments again capture the central romantic themes and style of the period, with characters and setting sharing a unified and cohesive approach. However i do think that your storyboards could benefit from some animation layout techniques, indicating character gestures and subtle head turns etc. In the first panel, perhaps the camera slows pans from left to right following the girl, revealing the figure from the back, whose head turns to meet her gaze etc.
To conclude, then I think you have created an enchanted narrative with appealing and subtle characters, with a style that captures the spirit of the time and setting, strongly reinforced by the graphic design. I think you should develop the storyboards and animation layouts to match the subtlety of your work presented. - JW
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ReplyDeleteAdapting a strong graphical style to character design and construction techniques can often be difficult, but your continued development on this project has proved worthwhile. Your designs are dripping with atmosphere and the expression sheets and gestures bring the characters to life with subtlety and nuance. Your environments again capture the central romantic themes and style of the period, with characters and setting sharing a unified and cohesive approach. However i do think that your storyboards could benefit from some animation layout techniques, indicating character gestures and subtle head turns etc. In the first panel, perhaps the camera slows pans from left to right following the girl, revealing the figure from the back, whose head turns to meet her gaze etc.
To conclude, then I think you have created an enchanted narrative with appealing and subtle characters, with a style that captures the spirit of the time and setting, strongly reinforced by the graphic design. I think you should develop the storyboards and animation layouts to match the subtlety of your work presented. - JW