Scrapped Concepts

These were actually done earlier in the week, but I hadn't had a chance to scan them in till recently.

These were the initial concepts for the farmer who was to be seen taking the chicken from the truck and putting him into the barn, as well as taking the chicken to the abatoire towards the end of the story. The original idea was that the farmer would only be seen from the chest or shoulder down. His face was never to be revealed. We had this idea in order to make him more menacing and mysterious. The drawback was that facial expressions are a significant part of character, meaning that we would be limited to showing the farmer's character through body movements alone. Since we are deprived of his face, I sought to compensate by giving him a more distinguishing body. Already I had an image of the farmer being lumbering chunk of meat, wether through fat or muscle. With regards to attire, I imagined him wearing very simple clothing, such as a butcher's apron, or dungarees. Giving him a cleaver or machete to wield made him more menacing and gave him a sense of brutality. In fact, my main source of influence was 'Pyramid Head' from Silent Hill, but I was reproached for making him too graphic. Aparently this 'inappropriate' for the 'happy ending'. Whatever.

One of my ideas (bottom left corner), was to have him wearing a necklace of chicken skulls, but again, this was considered too graphic. (@_@)



Although I said, the farmer's face was never actually to be seen, these were just to give us an idea, of what he may look like, and so help us with his attitude and personality.
The design in the middle (dungarees and cleaver), was to be the chosen design. However, due to the changes in the story (see previous post), the farmer has been scrapped and will no longer make an appearance. Censorship.

These are the concept sketches for the truck which was to feature in the openning scene, transporting the chicken to the farm. Again, because of the changes to the story, the truck will now simply feature as part of the scenery on the farm.

This was to be the chosen design for the truck.
It was vector-rendered in maya to get the outlines, then coloured in Photoshop.