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Almost
in the same way as with the little
girl's design development, I've been
poundering about the Animina design
as well.
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Early
on, the "Animina" doll was
named "Dynamina", and it
was going to be quite the opposite
storyline when regarding quality:
Santa's gift doll was to be an old
fashioned, flawed interpretation of
popular toy, a superb industrial product.
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So,
when storyline has been turned upside-down,
and story became simpler and more
naive, the design of, well, EVERYTHING
should change. Up to this point, "Soldat's"
kind of mild stylisation was to be
good enough, but after this brakepoint,
it was calling for complete overhaul.
But how, when I already moved to the
production phase, and constructed
many of the sets? Eventually, I've
find out that in fact, some of the
design choices, as early as from the
storyboard, were out-of-place for
that abandoned storyline that implied
different design approach. So, one
half of it was doomed for change,
anyhow. I had to redesign things,
or at least, find the way to make
dull designs blend with let's say
- warped ones. Also, almost all of
the characters got their heads bigger,
all but Santa and some stunts in the
Courtroom. All "Action dolls"
got the smallest head-to-body ratio
in the whole Arctic Pirate's cast!
Maybe not as much as, for instance
- "Powerpuff girls" (1 :
1), but with ratio aiming to approx.
1 : 2, Animina and her friends for
sure got themselves big heads.
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I
did the final head sketch quite early,
but I wasn't sure if that's the one
to go with. The determining factor,
besides the succesfull execution of
the head in full volume, in this very
case was also versatility of the design.
I needed, along with poster drawing
and Santa's workshop perfect doll,
two more incarnations of the "Animina"
puppet - one to appear as if it's
two-dimensional, for the TV cartoon;
and another one, executed as a lame,
cheap-plastic, mass-product. That
concept is rather different than what
I originally have planned - to have
the high-end, superior mass-product
on one side, and on the other - Santa's
somewhat inept replica, a wood carved
traditional doll. In both cases, lesser
dolls were to resemble the aimed design,
seen in cartoon and on posters, but
the final's lame doll in the store's
window attracts attention, while the
wooden, bad replica from Santa's workshop
ewokes rejection and despair, in the
original script draft.
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The ARCTIC PIRATE index |
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Color chart development, coloring and
light tests |
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Storyboards, shooting plans, concept
arts, sketches |
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Puppets, from sketches to animation:
4-G - Action Dolls |
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Vehicles of all sorts |
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Houses and exteriors, from sketches
to final sets |
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Interiors |
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Small props |
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Graphics and maps for posters, banners,
press, signs etc. |
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Shots against all odds |
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Simple shots, confined spaces |
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Basics: workbenches, tools, logistics,
etc. |
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Miscellaneous |
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