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Storyboard challenge. We were tasked with picking a film and drawing storyboards for it. Action scene challenge.

Furniture challenge Badge Challenge. We were given different animals at Random.

Toolkit 2:  https://tedsuniblog.blogspot.com/search/label/toolkit%202 Animation:  https://tedsuniblog.blogspot.com/search/label/animation Arnold:  https://tedsuniblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Arnold Life Drawing:  https://tedsuniblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/life-drawing-week-3.html Character Design:  https://tedsuniblog.blogspot.com/search/label/character%20design

In the lesson we were tasked with designing conceits for certain characters. I was given the conceit of a roman centurion. Mouse Air Raid Warden Concept art.

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Concept art for my main character of my project - Wilfred Chesire, a working class mouse living in the burrows under Westminister. 

A collapsed mouse burrow Looking up at a way out.

For todays task we were challenged with drawing charactersbased on randomized traits. Design challenges 1 - various randomised character ideas: a historic figure living a wild life, a knight vaping and wearing a fedora, and a wolf in a funny pose. Design challenge 2 - a time travelling gelantinous bear. I decided to make mine more monstrous.

Character turnaround for my character design challenge

Concept art for a poster one would find in the Westminster mouse tunnels and burrows. Heavily inspired by actual posters from the era.

The protagonist of the story. The uncle of the main character 

Originally the main character was going to be a soldier. The concepts above show various ideas for headgear from the time period. Mouse movement concepts Mouse concepts showing expressions, professions, poses and classes.

Homestead exterior Tunnel Household interior Train Tunnel and collapsed tunnel.

Various studies of different poses Dr Frankenstein pose.

The Taj Maha if it was a centre of scientific research One concept for its interior Another more refined concept of the interior.

We given different films and were tasked with interpreting anf studying their respective art styles. The easter bunny if he was closer to the aesthetics of the denizens of Halloween Town Jack Skellington if he was a character on a World War 2-era poster

For my character design task I was given the traits of 1940s London, a mouse, World War 2 London and Courageous/Heroic. Anatomy study and vehicles from 1940s London.