Project 1: Trittonia Silhouettes

 

image courtesy of Creative Juices

 Uh oh, it's a BIG SISTER!!! Concept art by Colin Fix for Bioshock 2

Design Brief 1: Trittonia

Welcome to Trittonia, a small planet where plants have merged with animals and insects to create strange new life forms.

Deliverable 1: A clean page of 20 character silhouettes that show possible inhabitants of this exotic place.

Deliverable 2: A clean sheet of 20 reference sources that you used to develop your characters.

Deliverable 3: A one paragraph written description of your inspiration and approach to Trittonia.

Post all of these to your blog by Monday, January 11.

Suggestions.

·       Develop a method that lets you move from loose and exploratory to more definition as you go.

·       You don’t have to make them all on one sheet. You can always synthesize your characters onto the same sheet later.

·       Color correct and clean up all final presentation work.

·       Save all of your work and let yourself do more than the minimum. Focus on quantity first and then quality. Get rough ideas for several characters down quickly.

·       Visual research is critical. Do it early and often. It’s probably the quickest way to producing better work.

Lotte Reiniger's great cardboard silhouette animation!

Michel Gagne's digital silhouette animation...