Tim Burton Styled Characters

I have been trying to design characters for this Graphic Novel idea for some time now. It has been in the works for a year now. I've done countless of sketches of the female and male leads. The story line is based off a song called, "Providence", performed by a Japanese rock band Luna Sea. I have an aristocratic young girl named, Selene and a mysterious male violinist. I wanted the style to be similar to Tim Burton I suppose? Here are some rough sketches.

"Moves 2 Make" Dosage Project

I'm currently working with Hip Hop artist Dosage to create an animated intro for his youtube web series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtEGmhWaDKg

His music inspires me, so this is a great honor to be working with him. My duty is to take Dosage and his crew and transform them into animated characters. After that, I'm suppose to make an animated intro showing their personalities in forty seconds. Here are some designs.

Yes that's Dosage as a character. I individually created the members, but for now I'll only post the title shot with the whole group and Dosage's character page. In Flash, the designs will be cleaner and crisper.
I'm having fun with this project, so this should be good.

Griffin? Beast?

"A Teddy Bear Story"

That is the new confirmed title for my Senior thesis.

The story is about a little girl who really wants to have this giant stuffed bear from the toy store. Everyone in towns has their own teddy's but our main girl dose not have enough money. After her day dream about dancing with the bear, she sulks off until a twist of fate happens! A ten dollar bill flies in her face from a woman's purse. She attempts to get the woman's attention, but goes ahead and keeps the money. She purchases the teddy that she always wanted and skips off until...she passes a homeless girl. After alot of contemplating reluctantly she hands the bear over to someone she thinks needs it the most. The poor child in return, gives our main girl a broken toy.

There, that is the story. It's suppose to be cute. ^^

Here is a FINISHED still of a scene. That is the homeless child.

My piece is going to be just black and white. Simple line work, nothing fancy. The dancing with the bear scene is going to be done in traditional hand drawn, while the rest of the piece is in FLASH(tradigital)

Here are some sketches and rough storyboards.

 This is the main little girl

That's all I'm going to share. Still working on my Animation though.
Does anyone else have ideas for story titles?? Much appreciated.

In my next entry I wanted to talk about my "trashed" original Senoir thesis idea that I had and show my Animatic. It was a really cool epic storyline, but during the summer, my heart completely was not into it. Reason? I tell you later. Till next time...byes!