Final Character Designs

I've posted all of my sketch work and gotten that out of the way. Here are the final character designs for my project:

 First up the tortoise. I wanted to make him look young and a pretty happy looking character.
He is easily the most fun to draw, mostly because of his head.

I wish I was just drawing a bunch of turtles instead.

The next character we have here is the hare. He will be racing against the turtle, although he doesn't exactly want to. I like the design I made for this, however from the side view at the bottom, it looks a little skinny and awkward, so I'll remember to avoid drawing the character from that angle as much as possible in the final animation.

Don't you love my inventive names for these characters?

This character is the sheep that is supposed to be entering the race against the tortoise, but he is afraid of losing and asks the hare to take his place.

Look at me! I'm the antagonist!

This is the hare dressed as the sheep. While designing this, it was important to keep it looking very similar to the sheep, so the disguise is convincing, but also, it needed to look different enough so that if the two characters appear on screen at the same time, you can easily tell which is which. If you're wondering how the hare's limbs change color to match the sheep's, it's because he wears something over them.

That's how I fit The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing into all this.

 

 

 

Now finally here we have a dog. Yes, I replaced the wolf with a dog. It's a similar enough animal, hopefully. Originally, the wolf was going to be entering in the race and trying to catch the hare (dressed as the sheep) the entire time. The problem here was I would have too much going on at once, and I also wanted the wolf to win the race. It was making less and less sense as I went on.
This dog was created so that there would still be the same amount of characters. 3 race participants instead of just the tortoise and the hare. The dog wins the race as a result of the sheep's intentions backfiring. I wanted the character of the dog to look like an unlikely candidate for the winner so this is what I came up with:

Isn't he just precious? ...or maybe just stupid.

 

 

 

 

This was also a fun character to draw. Much better than anything I would have come up with for the wolf. I think this goofy looking character will get some laughs, especially when it wins the race. in the end.

This concludes my showcase of character sketches and designs so far. Right now I'm working on getting some turnarounds done, and then after that storyboards, backgrounds, the animatic, and then the final animation itself.

Wow, is this going by fast...