Updates after break- 1

Let start by looking back to the Gantt Chart, I wanted to finish all my visuals, animation and content by the semester start. But it ended up I didn't keep my promise to finish what I set in the timeline. I delay my work and I will need to make a huge adjustment with my Gantt Chart.

1) So how far or how is my progress? What I manage to finish is 3 set of nightmares which is- falling, lost and chase. Let start by looking at the first set: 

Falling has 4 location/background (Sky, Building, Mountain and Cliff)
There were a lot of changes made with the visuals since I have been testing the colours, line art and perspective etc.

A little refresh on how the first version looks like:


Second round changes:

The intention was simple, to make the focus on the colour, animation and music so there were not many details added in the visuals. As I try to follow the mood board I proposed that is shown below 

Similarly, the lines and texture are applied on the first set to create the feel of minimalist yet with interesting texture and lines. Moving on with the progress, I find that there is still space for improvement on the background visuals, so I added more layers (depth of field) by looking at references. I ended up with redrawing cliff, building, mountain and try to change the character at the same time:

The latest changes:

The view of the mountain is lowered, by observing on skydiving videos the scenery should be lower and there should be layers of the mountain from foreground to background. Cliff jumping and ocean jumping is observed to make it closer to realistically on how it falls. As for the building, it is still too far away from a person jumping off a building so I need to closer up the view. I did try to experiment on the character design, what I want to achieve is have a genderless character, mysterious and dark colour. Why? The texture act as the stars similar meaning as the gallery, stars are dreams so the character is also a dream. The body shape will be close to human but faceless with only eyes to show the expression during that situation in the nightmare.   

The result: 

I pick the second character to proceed and animate the character's movement without the background moving.

Thoughts of the day:

I am using quite an amount of time learning from my mistakes in drawing the perspective and animation of the character. I have been testing a lot with the texture and brushes to achieve the things I need. After this set, I tend to see improvement and drawing speed in other sets of nightmares. Slowly I realise this set falling does not match the other 2 sets, so I ended up needed to make adjustment again.