Rascalé Outline

This is the outline for the children's series I'm working on creating the pre production for. Enjoy!

Sarah Hawethorn is the inheritant of a huge estate and all the items in it, but no money. Grateful for her home and heritage she tries to look after it as best she can but with her spending problems, she has got into a lot of debt and ended up having to sell some of the land surrounding the property. The whole area is over developed and covered in new houses squeezed in as close as possible to each other. This has caused a lot of problems for animals living in the area, which is how we are first introduced to the protagonist Rascalé a cocky, selfish weasel living in the city. Rascalé along with other animals is struggling to survive in the surrounding area and so has come to reside in the Hawethorn’s large residence. He at first causes a lot of trouble in the house, particularly for the owners, but soon realises the house is enchanted bringing the furs and taxidermy back to life at night. Becoming friends with the animals and helping them with their problems and mysteries (as they can’t leave the estate and some of them don’t have bodies) Rascalé is quickly accepted as a permentant resident and loved by all. He becomes a much nice person and very compassionate towards the animals, although he doesn’t like to show it, and when he discovers that the house is yet again being threatened by developers he must work to ensure the survival of his newly found friends.

Sculptris... again

This is the second model I created in Sculptris. I based it on a design I had doodle out in my book and sculpted it out using this pose. I came to realise that Sculptris uses symetry to create the model, but as soon as you turn that off to sculpt an arm in a different position to the oposite side you cannot turn it back on. This was a major problem for if I wanted to make changes to the face. I also found it hard to sculpt an entire body rather than just the face, and I was still having trouble with folds in the mesh, therefore I decided to invest in Zbrush.

Rascalé Premise

Over the next few weeks I am going to be working on a new project, a children's series called Rascalé. Here is the premise:

Rascalé is a children’s series set in an old English town that has become over developed. The Hawethorns manor is the only old building still standing, maintained by the owner to preserve her family heritage. The story focuses on the life of a weasel who ends up living in the manor. He learns the manor is enchanted and the taxidermy and fur comes to life at night. Rascalé helps the animals fix their problems and solve mysteries as they can’t leave the grounds and some can’t walk. As the series unfolds we learn that the house is in jeopardy and the owners are struggling to save it from demolition.

I hope you enjoy and keep checking out my blog for regular updates!

Sculptris

I found out about a software called Sculptris a couple of days ago and because I struggle with my turn arounds I thought it would be great to have a go with it so that I could easily create my characters and view them from all angles. I came across it when researching Zbrush, which I was going to get the free trial for but realised they had stopped doing one a few years ago, and Sculptris was a free software that was available as a platform to get into computer modelling and lead onto Zbrush later. This is the first design I created using Sculptris and I just had a play around trying to figure out how to use the controls etc. I found that the software was fairly intuitive and simple, but because of this when I came to do more complicated things the software couldn't handle it. This was the case with the eyebrows on the character below, once I had extruded the triangles to create the eyebrows it was virtually impossible to remove them as the mesh folded and tangled as I pushed the extremity back in.

Mrs Hawethorn Initial Designs

These are my initial designs for Mrs Hawethorn. I looked at clothes from the 1930's and fashion illustrations to help me create my rough sketches. I really liked the elongated snob on the right as I think she has a lot of character, although she still needs a lot of development.

Bluebox Layouts

Here are some of the layouts I produced for the short Bluebox. My favourite is the one of the winding street, but I also like the restaurant.

Will Bluebox Designs

Tom Bluebox Designs

This is the start of some designs I have been working on for the last couple of months for a short called Bluebox. This is Tom one of the characters I created for the short and over the net few days I'll be publishing  more designs.