| Rajesh and Orion: Development |

For living voices for the start of animation production I made several sketches of character development.

Starting from moodboard. I wanted to create cute characters in overall calm setting.

Link to padlet board:

https://artslondon.padlet.org/dalpyssova0420211/am0nexj8iidl5adb

First character design ideas:

Chosen character turnaround:

Color exploration:

Final character design:

Storyboards:

Changed storyboard after revision:

Background exploration:

Final chosen setting of animation:

More sketches of Background and character positions:

All colored backgrounds:

Script:

R: Are you a good dancer?

O: No terrible, absolutely terrible.

R: So you have no dan- no dancing policy…

O: No dancing policy at all, yeah…

R: Is that right?

O: Yeah, yeah 

R: Sarah is a f—f fantastic dancer isn’t she-

O: She is amazing dancer! Yeah, yeah, yeah. She is the greatest dancer.

R: M… Em..

O: Why shouldn’t we have (a) dance off?

R: Let’s be competitive… Danceathon!

X-sheets:

Mouth shapes:

Timings charts I used:

Initial key frames (animatic):

Changed key frames after revision (animatic):

Final Video: