Maya Task: Paper Clip Animation

Pre-Viz For Welcome to Gypsy Circus!

I have to admint, I'm very disapointed with the outcom of pre-viz, I didn't think its going to take this much time, but aswell I had to start way earlyer on experimenting with it :/ On the oder hand I learned so much.

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Storyboard: The Very Beginning of the one Minute Story

In the beginning of the story I thought to draw the background - the space where characters find themselves, because there's not a lot of actual action happening - we are only acquainted with what's the environment, whats the relationship between the characters etc. When "things will get more complicated" and there will be lots of action arrows I think I'll loose the background for both it is taking time and it distracts from understanding what's the action.
And maybe few opinions if I'm concentrating to much on the style, do the drawings "talk" because It's reaching the point when It's hard to see it objectively

Character Emotion Sheet

After doing thumbnail sketches of my story I saw what main emotions characters experience, so to bring clarity to my story I thought it would be helpful to draw out those different states .
Though the good emotions such as happiness are still mixed with their prides - characters are happy for others misfortune.

Welcome to Gypsy Circus!

I decided to change the traditional circus to a more gypsy-style circus, where such comedy's of two tightrope walkers fighting can happen :D

Circus concept drawing

This is the additional reference pictures I used while drawing and the workflow

Character Sheets (Coloured and two sided)

I did Characted design previously, but I didn't colour them completely and din't present them from two different sides. So there it is.