Some initial designs by others in the team:

This week is all about preparing assets for the stop motion section and doing our first test. On Monday, we collectively designed the carousel, which is the first thing the character sees when he sees into the colourful world. We all brought in lots of materials such as coloured card, tissue paper, buttons, pipe cleaners, string etc, so that we could see lots of colour and texture options while designing assets. Deciding the colour scheme for the carousel was the hardest part, but it helped to look at lots of references on Pinterest. It needs to be colourful and inviting, and also familiar as a traditional carousel.

This is our first test animation of the carousel, with a simple background and another funfair ride in the midground just as a draft. The main issue is that the carousel is too big to for the shot we want. Other than that, the animation is pretty successful. We added little paper bands to the backs of the horses so that they could slide up and down the golden poles (coffee stirrers from the cafe). Animating it quite fiddly but looks quite effective I think. Going forward, as well as the smaller carousel, it’ll also be important to make sure that isn’t moving is secure.