Rescue Stories meeting

In our first meeting we decided to go way do loads of research/references and a few concepts and come back.
so thats what we did.

Today we had a really good meeting bringing all our research and ideas together. Alan came up with the idea of the main character being an animal he thought of a bear. I really liked this so with more brainstorming we decided the animal should be a dog as they are generally linked with the coastguard and then after really listening to the sound and looking at a lot of dog breeds (there are so many god damn breeds) we settled on a bloodhound or a st bernads.

Alan is going to work on the character design tonight then in our meeting tomorrow go through it with us. We talked about adding coastguard clothes etc. We also want dog "tendencies" in the character sniffing, licking etc.

We also decided to mix 2d and 3d together. 2D characters and 3D environments and a 3D lifeboat. Personally I like this as I can learn more about texturing etc as I have never done this before. Another design element we want to use is from my mood boards. Everyone agreed that they like the illustrations with simple colour palettes (2/3 colours) so this will probably also be in the design.

So tonight I will be starting off the storyboarding process and i've already done a few thumbnails from the meeting after we had an in depth discusion of how we are going to tell the story.  I like this base idea and I think it has some real potential with more development.