Location Storyboard and character Design

After my development stage I created the finished storyboard - it has changed slightly from the animatic - this is because when I showed people my animatic, certain scenes were not clear enough or didn't make sense visually. Therefore it has slightly changed. My original idea was to have the stripy jumper man try to look under the cars to see the stripes, fail go home, wake up in the night and go back to the street however this would have made the animation longer than what i would have liked. Therefore after speaking with my tutor we decided to make the problem alot more internal. To show the OCD obsession with the road stripes, I am going to make the stripes become physical and start attacking him or surrounding him (as he can not think of anything other than these stripes.) The new ending will be more simple the traffic will clear and the 'physical' stripes will disappear and he will be able to continue counting the stripes. We have been discussing the way that animation could be used in my work in away that could not be captured by any other medium (e.g live action.) Therefore I decided to make the stripes come to life. The new idea is represented with the following storyboard:

Frame 1- Man walks around the corner of a street (we hear him counting - but it isn't clear exactly what) Sounds of traffic and people. Footsteps

Frame 2- Man continues counting (walks from top to bottom of screen)

Frame 3- Close up of his face still counting and walking

Frame 4 - Stripes in the road run past as he walks forward

Frame 5 - Close up of face (counting and walking)

Frame 6 - Stripes on the road

Frame 7 - Comes to the end of the street 

Frame 8 - Close up of horror

Frame 9 - Traffic covers the road so the stripes are not visible

Frame 10 - From behind him traffic is revealed further through his perspective

Frame 11 - Slowly walks backwards as he feels over whelmed

Frame 12 - Falls to the floor and stripes disburse from the floor

Frame 13/14/16 - Stripes continue to attack and surround him

Frame 17 - Looks up (emotion: fear and stressed)

Frame 18 - Traffic is cleared

Frame 19 - relief and he continues counting down the street.

Character Design
Above are some of my character development pages. When I tried to explore different expressions and face shapes and etc to capture the character I was trying to portray. What was most important when creating my character was the OCD aspect. He needed to look 'on edge,' 'strange' and 'nervous' looking. This [above] helped me to experiment and just draw out all of my ideas. I decided on my face from a combination of a few of these (I didn't select one, but a group.) The nose of my character was made here and the bags under the eyes was inspired here. I knew that throughout my Animation that my character will not be smiling alot and so these two pages let me try out different emotions. I will use this during the creation of the animation.

To the left is a style sheet that explores the background that I will use for my animation. The key point I wanted to show in these drawings was the orange and the blue. The exact location where I was sent, had buildings that were mainly orange and browns (hence the orange) and the sky was a blue colour that seemed to compliment the orange well. Although my animation is going to be made on Flash - I wanted to experiment with different tones and so used colouring pencils.