The making of

By Ashley Nwachukwu
 Proposal
I've chosen to do a year long project similar to the one I did last year with the
minor being a character design project and the major being the creation of the
animation. I've learned from my mistakes last year and have figured that my
downfall was underestimating how long the rigging process would take
therefore this time around I am going to aim to have the characters
completely rigged in the minor, leaving me solely with animating and
environment in the major.
My idea for this year will be related to my last year project, and alike that
project, this one will embrace my strengths and weaknesses on the course. I
want to make a prequel animation to my last years 'Chicken coop' about the
two pigeons discussing about the rumors surrounding a fast food chain.
However this animation will be called 'Chickens!' and will have two chickens
on a farm having similarly dimwitted conversations which in the dialogue will
spark the rumors the pigeons were discussing in its sequel.
Although the concept of this idea is very similar to my last project, the
characters, environment and dialogue give me the window to be creative with
the direction. I've already decided that I want the farm to be based
somewhere up north so the characters, instead of having the cockney accent
of my last characters, they will have a strong Yorkshire accent which I feel will
add to the humor of the dialogue.
With this project I feel the essence is in the dialogue which is one of my strong
points. Once I have the script done and dusted I will find it easier to design the
characters as what they say will give me a greater sense of what they look
like.
Influence Maps
Character sketches
Environment Orientation
Orthographics
Experiments
Final Character designs
Environment/Animatic
Editing dialogue
Maya
My Characters
My Characters rigged
Environment
Stills from Animation
The making of

By Ashley Nwachukwu