Character Design updates

For the location where our story would take place, we've decided to go with this:

Style

Some research on style we might follow be it in terms of the character design or the atmosphere of the film:

Character Design + Environment updates

Model sheet for the dog. Below are the edited version of our richman and beggar.

We've decided that the setting were to take place in Chinatown. Environment without bridges.

Composition with bridges. Tried to get it to look somewhat like the one we use in the storyboard so there won't be much changes. The reason why the above composition is plain and simple, is so we can incorporate whatever style we'll be using for the environment.  

Proportion exploration [?] draft

Exploring the proportion of the characters.

the rich man would look something like this :

Storyboard draft 3

Draft 3 of storyboard, most of the changes were done to page 6 and 7.

Character line up

We pick the following shapes for our character for the shape exploration.

We choose this shape for among the triangles because physically the character looks hunchback and skinny, which show that his malnutrition. Personality wise, the shapes gives off the feeling of unmotivated, sluggish, being lazy, sloppy,  over-reliance and never satisfied.

We decided to go with square for the rich man because we wanted him to be someone who's dependable. We feel that this design fits it well as it gives off the feeling of someone you can rely on as well as generosity since he's quite circular despite looking like a square. He's quite fat and chubby looking because we wanted to show he's wealthy and have been well-fed -- A huge contrast to the beggar.

As for the dog it is generally circular overall, because we wanted it feel bouncy and active. In terms of personality wise, we want the dog to have a loyal and straight forward personality especially towards the beggar. At the same time, he's adorable, unguarded and approachable towards the passer-by.