Character and narrative- Background progress

I have been concentrating mainly on painting over my 3D modelled backgrounds in Photoshop recently, which proved to be a much more time consuming process than I first expected. I had alot of trouble painting the shadows and getting the perspectives right. I eventually figured out a more efficent way to do this; by using the polygon selection tool and then filling in the selection with a gradient, I lessened my workload and was able to work much more quickly. I have also begun doing keyframes over the unfinished Maya backgrounds which are acting as placeholders at the moment.

Character and Narrative walk cycle test

This week I have been working on a walk cycle for Spindra, the sexy spider character. Below is the very rough test i did. I took inspiration from jessica rabbit walk cycles, but toned down a bit in the exaggeration aspect. I am really pleased with how this turned out and our group has decided to use it as one of the shots in our animation. Next step is to clean it up and add detail etc. I had a bit of trouble with the second step but eventually went thorugh it and fixed it.

Study Task 3- Strike A Pose

These are my responses to the  'Strike a pose' study task. I enjoyed posing moom and getting to know maya a bit better. I found it useful to get the degree of exaggeration i wanted which I couldnt achieve in my reference photos. Because i havent used maya since first year, it took a bit of getting used to, but i now feel much more confident using it having completed this task.

Spindra Character Sheet

Below is a character sheet for Spindra showing a range of poses which i think show her character well. I took inspiration once again from Jessica Rabbit character sheets. 

Character design

Below is the finished character sheet for the spider lady character which I designed. We have decided to name her Spindra. I was heavily influenced by Jessica Rabbits character design because we are going for the same exaggerated sexy character type with Spindra. I tried a few different colour combinations for her dress/hair/skin but settled with this one because i think it compliments the other colours nicely and is obviously Jessica Rabbit inspired while also remaining unique and spider-y. The biggest challenge was drawing the different angles and the way her spider legs would look from the back and side, but I am happy with the character sheet and how the character looks overall.