Class Photo

Every character involved has now been designed.

General Cutler's son is also designed, but he's just a head on a screen, and not worth putting up right now.  There are a few things still the be drawn - The TARDIS, the radiation suits, the dreaded Z-Bomb (pronounced Zed), various props, and the very frightening and not at all ridiculous Cyber Ships!

The focus now shifts towards making a few storyboards.  The conceit of this animation is that it is very very simple.  It's meant to be like watching an animated Punch and Judy show.  Characters will bob up and down, flail their arms, and act like puppets.  But I still need to set up just how the characters will interact: who will be on stage together, how they will flail, and all that.  We'll see.  I'm just pleased to have reached this milestone.

Dr. Barclay

I've begun working on some of the more minor (can something be more minor?) characters.  Here we've got Dr. Barclay, a civilian scientist at Snowcap Base.  

The plain clothes make a welcome change!  

General Cutler forgot that it was Casual Friday.

Our Heroes

The Doctor, Polly and Ben

(with telesnap for fun)

I'm now going to pretty much be designing exclusively for The Tenth Planet, episode 4 for awhile.  I've got the main three characters made, as well as that $#%# Cyberman.  Now it's time for all the secondary characters.  

Off we go.

Animated Anneke

Now Polly is properly color corrected.  Did a few minor tweaks and smoothed out some edges.  I think this is pretty much the final version of her template.

And with that, I'm pretty sure that I will make The Tenth Planet episode 4 my first full animation puppet project.  Now on to Ben Jackson!

Polly Part 2

I got started and didn't want to stop until I got this finished.  I'll look at it again tomorrow with fresh eyes to find all the mistakes I probably made.

I don't have a color reference for Polly's Tenth Planet outfit, so pink will do for now.  The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards doing The Tenth Planet.  We'll see.

10th Planet Cyberman work in progress

This is a nearly completed 10th Planet Cyberman head on top of the rough sketch for his body.

This gives me a rough idea of the proportions of the body which I will go back and clean up.  I may either shrink the head or expand the body, because the proportions aren't quite in proportion.

I've been considering trying to animate the 4th episode of The 10th Planet, since that story is missing only that episode.  We shall see.