Backstage and 3D Statue: The Idea Behind The Design! (Patreon)

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Here we have the backstage, aka Arthur's dressing room! I started with making a grid based on my early board drawing. The scene will follow Arthur being panic and rush to the dressing room to find the better dressed, or else his popularity will be dropped!

Putting Arthur for scale.

Then color! I use some reference pic to edit here and there for texture. I didn't plan much on color except that's why it's all gold and bright. Yet, that's not what I want. What the connection with the theme if this is Arthut's dressing room where's he decorate himself? A cave, an underwater cave!

Apply green filter and voilà! This remind me of Ariel's secret cave from The Little Mermaid. The deep dark turquoise really make it mysterious and personal. Same goes with Arthur's, it's the place where he hidden his trueself from the crowd. Messy and everything's all over the place XD

Next: We have an update 3D model of Arthur's Statue from Dylan!

The purpose of this 3D model is for testing/experimenting the look of the short. I'd love to see if I can make some rotate/moving camera movement at the beginning and how will it looks like if I combined it with 2D character. Something like Disney's animation in the late/early 2000 where they mix hamd drawn and 3D BG together.

I draw some diagram guide of Arthur for Dylan. Realizing Arthur's shape is like Tigger from Winniw the Pooh, but without mane XD

Dylan is so productive he keep send me progress everyday. Took him only a week and it's done!

Lastly, the music! Joshua has finished the first draft of the overall music for the short! I will update that in the new post with preview music <3

That's all for this week! I think we covered almost everything of the designs. Next thing will be adjusting and revisioning the board to match with the music and then color script ^^

See you in the next update!

- Piti Yindee