Summer Project

I've decided that I will begin a project to keep myself busy over the summer break, as well as help me to improve my animation skills and knowledge in the ToonBoom Harmony software.

I decided that I wanted to do a chase sequence similar to Coyote and Roadrunner or Tom and Jerry and that I wanted the short to take place in the wild in Africa as I felt like this wasn't a setting seen much in cartoon shorts. After doing some research I decided to use the Cheetah and the Antelope as my characters, specifically, the Impala breed of antelope as this is the breed most commonly found in Africa and hunted by Cheetahs.

Here I started off with a Cheetah in quite realistic proportions, and then I went about simplifying the features, keeping what gives the cheetah their distinct look, but allowing me to create a clean, animatable design. I decided to make the eyes a simple almost pear shape to them, as well as adding the addition of a brow to allow for more humanistic expressions.





















For the Impala, again I started off with a more realistic proportioned design, but this time, rather than simplifying the design as I went along, I opted to create an extremely simplified design and to then combine the best of both into my final design.