Film Review: Vertigo (1958)

Film Review: Vertigo (1958)

Characters: 'Thomas' Expression & Character Sheets

I started off refering back to Andrew Loomis' Fun With A Pencil to help me develop my character of Thomas. I had already found one of my early drawings that I was happy with using as a base to work on so I tried using several techniques in the Loomis book including the "blocky" treatment. I thought this may help show Thomas' age better than the earlier drawing which now that I need some photographs of him when he was in the Navy and getting married will come in useful for a younger adult Thomas. The block method really did help show his age better especially around the jaw. I did eventually take away some lines though because to me he now seems easier to empathise with.

Some sketches with the help of Loomis' book trying to add age to Thomas and find his neutral face.

Thomas Expression Sheet. It was especially useful working on this in photoshop as it allowed me to use the neutral face as a base and just work over it.

Thomas turnaround/ character sheet.

I was originally going to create a pose where Thomas would look older, bent over as such but then I thought that would make him look like he needed help and really I want him to seem like he's fine, he doesn't need to go into a home, instead going there is bad for him and the care home workers are just judging him sterotypically so I actually used my own grandad as an example. Thomas isn't hunched over but he isn't standing very straight either because of my want to stop the stereotype but show his age.

Experimentation with pose and getting the joints/body parts in the right place.

 



Unit 4: Concept Art

Here is some of the concept art for the hallway that features at the beginning of my story. It hasn't been coloured yet but I thought I'ld put it up anyway. I'm not too sure whether the colour itself will ruin it or whether I could just put a sepia colourwash on it to go with the theme of it being a room of memories, but we'll see how the colour works and decide then.

Thumbnails laying down ideas for hallway, and a floor plan of the hallway to help me see where I would direct my camera towards the cellar.

@ Phil: New Act 1

Hi Phil I was just wondering if you could check over my new act 1 for me to see if it fits better with the rest of the story. At one point I did think of having moving boxes filling up the hallway and the photographs on the walls peering through the gaps in these stacks of boxes but then I thought why would my character pack up things when he doesn't want to go and so maybe the throwing away of something linked to a change he doesn't want would show this, especially if there is some cheesy slogan on the leaflet about the place that we know isn't true. Also with regards to my OGR where you said dialogue, would this be subtitles in my animatic? Thanks :)

The Concluding Escapade Script 2.0

Premiere Pro: Week 3, Special Effects

Maya: Felix Jnr: Rig Installation



Artist Research: David Elliot & others

Thanks to Alice for the links to some illustration work to inspire me with my animatic and character designs. My favourite one was illustator and author David Elliot, he has this friendly vibe about his characters/work but they are really simple. His work also seems dreamlike to me which if I can create a dreamlike vibe about my 2nd act may be a nice touch and happy end to my character's life. I know my pirate isn't supposed to be friendly but the pirate below inspired me in regards to my pensioner character. Some other illustrations by Elliot as well as other artists have inspired me in regards to my characters too.



John Manders

 

Brandon Dorman