Finished Sheets for Beauty and the Beast Brief

Below is all the work that I have completed for the brief set by Shelley Page. 

Neo Racer Track Designs

I did some rough sketches of different track designs using other tracks from the Cars films but also games like Mario Kart for reference. 

Development- These are the designs I liked the best, so redrew them out larger and neater to see if they would work and if I thought they could work enough to be the finished track design.

The last one is the one I chose to use for my final design. I think it fits the tital "Neo Racer" best as I can imagine the loops being lit up neon colours and it looks the most modern. 

Neo Racer- Track and Car research

For this brief I already had in mind what style I wanted my finished drawings to look like and knew that I would like to use a lot of reference from Pixar's Cars films. I had the Art of Cars 2 so have taken some pictures of the concept art that was used to help create that film to help influence me. Below are some images of cars and race tracks from that film. 

The reason I wanted to use the Cars films as reference for my own project was the idea that every car has a face. I know that real cars do look like they have a bit of a face, but I liked how Pixar showed that and made it look realistic and not stand out too much. 

Neo Racer- Sketches

For my research I looked into Wacky Races, Wreck it Ralph, Cars and Cars 2. I knew I wanted to make my car fit the brief but also fit my style of drawing so I felt these were the best areas to research into. Below are a few pages of sketches for this brief. 

As you can see, as my sketches went on they became more focused on the army type of vehicle as this is a major part of the brief. 

Key Moments- Visual Storytelling

For the key moments section of the Visual Storytelling module I did the following sketches. After doing a degree in animation, I already knew what key moments was so did a little bit further research before starting my work. 

This was my first sheet of ideas, and after some feedback and opinions I chose three and took them further. (shown below)

 I explored the camera angle and perspective for these two pages of sketches to see which angle my idea would look best in. After picking out the ones I liked, again I sketched them out again, slightly improving the drawing so I had more of an idea if it would work or not. 

I decided that the last image wasn't working and that I would save that and work with it more for my final poster design. My lecturer and I liked the idea of the gang surrounding the box, but thought it could have more of an environment in the image. So below shows the drawing I came up with next. 

Teaser Ads- Final

Here are all three finished teaser ads.