Mermaids

So.... Been watching The Little Mermaid today (it's been a little drizzly, I did leave the house when I could I promise. I thought I'd doodle some mermaid sand realised I was quite fond of them (found some metallic green fish scale leggings online that ism unfortunately and ashamidly tempted by!) there are much more Brittney Lee or Mary Blair inspired than Arial. Think I shall do a couple more just because I like the colour freedom it allows. Also they're down right adorable!

Luna-Rover the Robot Dog

I was writing the plot for one of the possible ideas I fill further on my MA. Its about a futuristic workshop run by o Robotic Rosie the Riviter. In the story they build a robotic puppy called Luna-Rover after the Luna Rover used by Nasa astronauts in the Apollo days. Its relevant to the story as the characters live on the moon but more importantly I want to use the narrative to teach kids about history and science as well as providing life lessons. In the case of this story responsible pet ownership.

I think its likely that a lot of the artwork will be done in illustrator. However the influence for the style and character design is Mary Blair so I decided to try and get a little more of a tactile, handmade quality as her work does.

Pod Backgrounds

The pod house is a little awkward perspectivly. As it is round I have to design as if through a fish eye lens. Its challenging. lets leave it at that. I changed the sort of layout from pre produection. I moved the floor up inside the pod so that there would be more floor space. Instead of separating out each room like the living room and kitchen into a separate part of the pod. I gave it a more open plan layout similar to the layouts that became fashionable in 1950's living space. I think its helping with that retro funky look as well as making for much nicer backgrounds. As it is a pod with limited space, fusing kitchen, living room and dinning room into one space makes a lot of sense, spacialy. Its still very rough and needs a lot of perspective adjustment. Im happy with the colour scheme. I have the colours follow through from section to section. The pink from the living room follows through to the kitchen, then the yellow from the kitchen follows through to the dinning room.

Props and things

After the sweatbox I was up till twenty to four preparing for I was told to start on background and environment work. So I started with props. I want to create a powder room as well as some exterior environments tomorrow. These are two of the chair designs in use. Also I think this will be the basis for one other adverts I want to design. I see myself producing a few billboards and the like to advertise products available in this future to make the world seem more believable. This will be for one in which robot ladies can purchase various hair styles and weld them in place with the gun in the picture.

3 am.......grumble!

Its gone three in the morning and the reason I'm up so late is there is a sweatbox tomorrow morning. I have to pitch my major idea and hope 1. There is enough of it, and 2. They actually like the idea to start with. Hmmm I just finished this 1950's/Mary Blair inspired thing. Its very quick, I want to give it another go in illustrator later to get a cleaner version but I just needed to give an idea of what I want the show to look like. i'm posting it because the blog feels a bit neglected.