Preliminary Sketches

Ok, so these aren't the best but it has outlined a few things I wouldn't have realised having not done them.

1) I desire the character to stand on its hind legs, not all fours

2) drawing in a very sketched style, as seen below, would create great difficulties in terms of continuity

3) therefore I am going to sketch each frame, as seen with the first picture, and then outline them in black felt, as seen, and use photoshop to colour each one. This will be the most efficient in terms of time and maintaining continuity.

4) I am going to draw 2/3 main backgrounds for all the scenes

I'm also going to animate in a layered style, keeping the characters and organic assets separate to the non-organic.

Here's my first sketch, not too pleased with this, not my best, yet it helped my process.

From this I realised I didn't like the character being on all fours. This would restrict alot of movement, and just generally wasn't the style I desired.

I then went on to sketch and colour another copy

And outline it to colour using digital ink

and the final outcome...

Im not displeased with these. They're a great basis, but it needs alot of work, and they need clothes!! :)