I'm back!

Hey there, it’s been a while, new year new me and all that jazz, I’ve been spending the last few weeks settling back in at home in Wales, trying to ‘adult’ which requires me to juggle work, gym, a social life, a healthy diet plus 8+ hours of sleep every night (and failing miserably at it) but I’m really going to try and post more on here now, my Wacom tablet has been playing up recently and after a while I gave up trying to fix it and today it miraculously started to work again🙌🏼 so I really need to get back into drawing digitally, it’s been ages😩 Does anyone know which TV show this is from? I am literally OBSESSED with this show at the moment I absolutely love it👏🏼 #yabasic .

Ticked Off - Control Panel

Above: with overlay

Below: without overlay

   So because Jasmine had already designed the props before i jumped onto the film to do backgrounds, my work is basically cut out for me, I just need to place the props in the right position for each background and i'm basically done. So, Jasmine said I could design the control panel. I'm happy with the design but i just can't get the colours quite right as with the pink textured overlay the colour brightens and changes. jasmine said to use copper/gray colours with a wooden texture and then another one with a metal texture. I'll have to see what she thinks. To see what the control panel would look like in a background, i did a quick test but went a bit overboard by adding the characters (oops) I also added a bit of gaussian blur to the background so that the foreground and characters stand out and to add a bit of depth. This is only rough as i know that the outside of the clock will change, the cog system will be a different design, in 3D and textured (but i just drew a random design as line art for this test) and also the way the clock face has smashed will change, but it's just to get a feel of the whole thing and i think the control panel looks okay, but it's Amy's vision so i'll have to double check with her! I'm pleased with this though and I can add this to my portfolio anyway if it isn't used!

To see more of how Ticked Off is going, you can check me out on social media: Twitter: @cerysjanemees Instagram: cerysjanemees and Facebook: Cerys Jane Mees

You can also check out Producer of Ticked Off, Jasmine's blog: http://jasminemayanimation.blogspot.co.uk/ and follow her on Twitter: jasminemay987

and last but not least our lovely director Amy!: Blog: http://amydoesanimation.blogspot.co.uk/

You can follow Ticked Off on twitter: @tickedoff2018

Ticked Off Backgrounds

These are new backgrounds for Ticked Off. The bottom one is a new angle of the previous background i did, the clock is supposed to be cracked but Jasmine is still working on the design of the cracks in the clock so i put the full clock face in as a placeholder. I think they're looking really good, although i can't help but think they're a little too saturated? I still need to finish the top one so it's in progress at the moment but i'm happy with it so far!

Ticked Off - Background

This is a background that I've done from a layout which was done by our producer, Jasmine Scrogie. This is my first attempt at a background in the final style as the test I did last semester was in a very different style to this one., there are new textures and overlays and also new props. In the shot for this background, the clock face is actually smashed at this point but Jasmine is still working on how the clock will be smashed so I've used the proper clock as a placeholder. I think it's looking really good and i can't wait to do some more!

Papa Poule - Character work pt2

   Another one! This one i found more tricky than the others, i'm just awful at perspective and shape and body proportion, which is why i''m more of a background artist but I've enjoyed the challenge and this has to be done to make my work more appealing to look at! just have to keep going and not give up! D:

Papa Poule - character work

   So i'm thinking a lot about how i'm going to tell a 'story' through my portfolio of work that i hand in at the end of the semester, and i'm thinking i could just use the characters and make them interact with whatever i'm showing  so for example, painting the backgrounds and then i had an idea of making the characters from different films meet, so Paul would meet Wick and so on. These are three of the poses I've done and so far it's looking pretty good, i'm not usually great at character stuff but i'm quite enjoying it! Definitely not perfect but better than i thought.

Papa Poule - shot and layout change

 So layouts and backgrounds are all done now for Papa Poule, so for me it's just a case of fixing any layouts/BGs that need fixing and tweaking things here and there. I also said i'd help out with colouring shots if needed, even though I specialise in backgrounds. This shot that requires two backgrounds has changed so the blinds aren't going to be animated anymore so I've just added the blinds on each one.