ep: lifting tower // first designs & collaborating struggle

for this brief, it was decided that i would do the initial character designs for the elves as someone who practices with designing characters. i was happy to do this (and quite pleased) as it gave me a chance to practice my skill and show off a little bit. i'm really happy with how they came out, bearing in mind that they needed to be simple so that the animation process wouldn't be too difficult. (something new that i learned!)

we decided to go for green/red colours to represent the christmas theme of the brief.

as someone who is perfectionist and someone who struggles with stress quite a lot, it was quite difficult for me to work collaboratively. the animator took quite a while to do the simple sketch animations, which myself and the other illustrator were supposed to colour over in photoshop. it was quite frustrating because he kept talking about needing to clean up the lines/make it perfect, and it was hard for me to reiterate that he didn't need to do that because we were going over it with colour anyway without in some way hurting his feelings. i didn't want to get annoyed, because this would be unprofessional of me, it just gave me more experience in working collaboratively and might be something that i have to tread more lightly with in the future. 

it was then decided that i was to also do the fonts for the project, which i was also fine with. here they are:

and the final one: