I started drawing the characters in toonboom to get an idea on how they will look like through out the animation, I also wanted to use the deform tool instead of doing it the casual way.
Here's my main character drawn fully as a vector drawing. He has a coat, shirt and tie to show that he is educated, his hair style was made in a fashionable way so that it matches with his whole appearance and also to make him look clever. His skin color is a sort of a mixture of green and grey to represent his pessimism. Furthermore, since the story is dark and he has a gloomy personality in this video I thought that a gothic look would suit him best.
This is the female character, you can clearly see that he is an ordinary person, and as I specified earlier in the previous posts. I've finally give her a really simple hair style and I've made her hands in the form of a stick to create a wicked feeling to it. Their skin tone are a greyish blue, since it represent that they lack of life and also because it's from the perspective of the protagonist, who sees everything with a dark mind.
Notice how I drew their hands, I was trying to create a similar effect to Coraline's second mother, in her evil form:
Using the build-in vector brush from toonboom along with the pressure sensitivity of my drawing tablet, I think I had an even more interesting appeal for the hands.
This isn't any important character but still I tried to give him an interesting look just for the sake of the aesthetic.
I've also experimented with the brush strokes with this character, it was a single line with different pressure at different part of the character that gave him that rounded look.
This is the so called Ice Cream God in the animation, he got that wide smile too and it actually represent that he is the influencing force that changed everybody this way, with the wide smile, and he got a crown, to represent his godly status.
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