Concertina Book

 

 

Evaluation

A piece that was influenced by another artist (other than my final piece which was influenced by Tove Jansson) was my small-press concertina book; the characters were heavily inspired by works of Richard Williams, an extremely talented animator.  My main male protagonist was inspired by Tack from Williams’ uncompleted animated film, “The Thief and the Cobbler” (look up “The Thief and the Cobbler: The Recobbled Cut” on Youtube, it’s fantastic) and the main female character was inspired by the Raggedy Ann design from “Raggedy Ann and Andy’s Musical Adventure”, an animated film within which is a scene that Williams animated himself. 

Buildings Consertina Small-Press Book plans and sketches

I decided to go for a snippet-from-a-graphic-novel style for this coursework, incorperating the buildings that were constructed in lessons by drawing over the photos we took of them and using the traces as backgrounds. I then had to design characters and a sketched plan of the story.

I decided to base my 2 main characters on characters linked to one of my animating heroes, Richard Williams. My male protagonist is based on Williams' Tack from his unfortunately incompleted masterpiece, "The Thief and the Cobbler".

(This is a screenshot from "The Thief and the Cobbler")

I based the second main character on the Raggedy Ann design from "Raggedy Ann and Andy's Musical Adventure", of which Williams animated a significant proportion of.

(This is a screenshot from "Raggedy Ann and Andy's Musical Adventure")

I first drew sketches straight from pen to paper of both these characters.







Then I came up with altered designs and styles.











Here are the final designs:



After having made the final designs, I roughly sketched the storyboard, before starting on the drawings for the final piece.