6DM022, 6DM012: week 13 (3rd-5th February 2016) revisiting character designs

As part of my pre-production package feedback about the 'mother' design, I decided to play around with restructuring the figure's anatomy due its generic and restricted look.
What I did was a quick research on the female structure aswell as beginning some life drawings to re-practice this approach.
To gain the sources I use the YouTube Channel 'New Masters Academy' to practice figure drawing aswell as other useful techniques if I needed to revisit them. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliUF1c8m7MUspaCykJljSg

 

As I was doing the task I also started out sketching out potential and better figure structures for the female character. Then I started to improve the anatomy body parts that would need to be changed to get a better outcome. I also practiced basic poses based on improved ideas with the unchanged head

design since the main problem was the body as it would be too difficult to animate.

The next step is sketching out the complete design character plan in different poses for improved look on characteristics and personality aswell as creating a final concept art. I also want start creating the initial backgrounds for the animations itself aswell as creating more tests based on the initial animatic scenes. Another thing I want to start is cutting actions and scenes out of the animatic to improve pacing problems without losing the plot structure.