NEW YEAR and new progress to report.
My Irish collaborator Sinead Walshe is working on my four main characters for my one-minute trailer for the short cartoon series CHONIE & BOS. She plucked images from the internet (see below) to give me a choice of feel and tone for each character.
Then she did some drawings and asked me did I like the cat Chonie to have a rounded muzzle or no muzzle, and so on. I thought her first Chonie was too skinny and model-like...kinda unreal world. We wanted her to be a bold, frisky high schooler warts and all (well, not real warts).
This meant some meat on those bones--clearly a kitty who ate food...
Then, since in the trailer Chonie is changeable--angry, jealous, seductive, and so on, Sinead did a compilation of her expressions...EXCITING because finally she MOVED, she was animated...
See above.
This is a very interesting process...I am amped.
