Home page design

Am happy with page 7's colour scheme and think that it makes a good home/title page palette, so did this draft of the composition of it. I will also probably be using this for banners, business cards, etc...

based on these sketches (left, the right are poster/promo ideas)

I used these CSP brushes, just for the rough idea, I will be drawing it myself. 

(Those brushes are free open licence though, and I could have totally used them a few months ago...)

This is what it looks like on laptop and mobile view:

Title drawings that I've scanned and will edit, and decide what to use....I've tried quite a few fonts but they just don't have the right feel, so I think something hand drawn is the way to go.

Drew and coloured the final piece:

I then made the titles into separate files and tested colours:

Then I had trouble putting the image in the html - it threw off the full background. I then decided to make it an svg file. This also means I can change the colour easily! I just need to decide one.

Also a card design

or possibly an orange version...

Setting / scene staging

Figuring out layout/3d space/continuity for the part of page 03 when she's run away - so nearby where page 02 is but slightly different.

Mostly just something rough for me to figure out which plants are there and where they are.

Adding detail to thumbnails

I've been going through and finding the least detailed images and updating them - getting [most things] to a similar level and then going through again and making them more detailed. I'm also adding some shading in places just so I know where the light will be.

As I compose scenes, I'm also doing more concept art - designing the settings around the thumbnails/'cinematography' instead of the other way around.

thumbs/concept art

sketches for reorganising thumbnails: cleaning on page 9 (just the panel layout, I already had what was in them) and looking for the beast..

walking around at the start of page 4, and on the right getting the phone call/alarm on page 1.

Sketches for the overgrowth place:

Concept art

Beast concept art. going for something insect-like but also not quite? (eg four legs) - a kind of weird mixture. 

the setting of the beast place (mostly focusing on the tree here)

and the flower place:

Thumbnailing end of beast scene

Earlier thumbnails, but my first test of the animation:

Tree model

As I was thumbnailing and designing the environment for the Beast Quest I found that the weird twisty tree was quite hard to get right - the branches mostly, especially since I have various panels at different angles.

So I made a model to use as reference for the main branches. It's very rough, just to get the angles right, I will emphasise the shape a bit more. I did this alongside the tree concept art I was doing.