Short Film Project: The Offering

I've finally started concepting my short film for my final year of animation at uni.  it's called 'The Offering', and is a tale of a young man journeying to save a damsel in distress.  ok, it's not as straight forward as that, but i've been wanting to make this for quite some time now.  Fumito Ueda's Shadow of the Colossus will be a huge source of inspiration for the setting, characters and story.  actually, a lot of the work from Team Ico inspires me.  another source of inspiration is Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, prince Ashitaka in particular...such a kick ass character.

Here's the first set of concepts for my film.  this is a rough version of my Colossal Beast; one of the main antagonists the hero must face.  i did this last year to jump-start my ideas and story.  used an assortment of 5H - 5B pencils on an A3 sheet of paper.  many of the design elements were inspired by the various colossus fan art by an artist named Cristian Penas (his deviantART page is http://cristianpenas.deviantart.com/).  awesome artist.

This one's the finished line art i did in Photoshop about a month ago, which i based on my rough concept.  took almost 2 weeks to finish; working on it a few hours each day.  so far, it's the largest digital image i've ever done (8575x13416 pixels).  i was a bit scared of colouring it, so i'm leaving the colours for later.  wat i love most when concepting is creating repetition, especially when making patterns.  i guess you can say this is the best i can do as far as line art goes ;)

Always gotta keep pushing it.  more stuff coming soon!