Initial Concept Work

These are the initial concept sketches from Luke. I coloured them in Photoshop CS2. Shown here, is the Chicken, and also the barn which will feature in the story. There are not the final products, but are only there to give us a rough idea of what the final look could be.

These are the coloured versions which is did in Photoshop.

One of our issues regarding the chicken, was wether to give him actual feathers, as in polygons. This however could present some serious problems as dynamics can sometimes be volatile and unpredictable. It was suggested that the chicken would just be textured to look feathered. Shown above is my attempt.

I made the door smaller to give the barn a larger scale. I also removed the stilts as it seemed a bit silly that a building this size would be on stilts.

I wanted to give the barn a dark and menacing look, hence the use of dark colours, and old or decaying textures.

This is a version that was quickly modelled in Maya then vector rendered to get the outlines. It was then coloured in Photoshop. This was an experiment to see wether this method could produce much quicker results than drawing it by hand, and scanning it in. While it does work, the quality of the lines are not as crisp, and it involves alot of cleaning up before it is workable. This method does save time when drawing complex perspective angles, but pencil drawings seem to produce cleaner results.