PETSQUAD: Some old boards

Digging through files to put some portfolio work together and stumbled on some old stuff I put together in my spare time. This was for a project idea of a zombie apocalypse from the perspective of pets.

I was still in the early days of boarding. Looking at it now, it's pretty bad but I like the ideas in it. So may go back to it and do it properly.  I posted these boards earlier, but never the videos, since the timing is quite bad in these. But I like to have a record of everything on my blog, good and bad :D

STORY: Reference Life

At work we have an occasional visit from a cute little doggie called 'Korra', she's like a Corgi / Sausage Dog and really has a great personality. I remember sketching her once when she was running outdoors, and she came to mind as a potential great main character for this story. A naive, sweet, gentle little dog to face a horrible apocalyptic world filled with monster and undead creatures.

Below some of those quicksketches I did of Korra:

These are some sketches I did later from memory inspired by her:

STORY: Character sketches

Once I had my initial idea. It's time to explore more ideas, some people will do that by writing, but as artists I feel we should do this through drawing aswell. So a great way to get a feel for your characters and start thinking about the possibilities of their abilities to deal with the problems in the story is to write down 'ACTIONS', like 'cooking, running, sleeping, relaxing, panicking, etc..

Don't stay on model, because at this stage you shouldn't have anything definite, it's a piece of clay ready to be molded and remolded until you feel it's right.

Unfortunately since I didn't have a working pc for a while, I didn't scan in my drawings, but I found a sheet with some of the sidekick characters. As you can tell these are really bad drawings, but they are scribbles of the mind. They help you think and develop characters, good drawings come later (hopefully :D)

STORY: CONCEPT IDEA

So embarrassing as it may be, I'm going to post my progress here with my story. If I would retrace it afterwards when I'm finished, I probably would've forgotten what I came up with first.

THE IDEA

I think ideas can come from anything, they can be good or bad. But usually any idea that you stumble on will be exciting at least for those first moments. So better have a pen ready to write it down before you forget or talk yourself out of it.

My idea came to me while I was in bed, watching a movie half interested. My mind wandered and I came to the idea of doing a Zombie apocalypse from the perspective of a pet. That's it, simple concept but it ticked all the boxes for me.

(below is that very first page with the birth of the idea)

Immediately what came to mind was 'the Secret Life of Pets' and a manga called 'I am Hero'. And that's all you need to get started on your idea. A strong enough of an idea to spark a lot of visuals, characters and world building. And most importantly something you can see yourself draw/write.

ROUGH BOARD: PETSQUAD Pt2

PART 2 of this Un-edited straight ahead pass. I went off script here because the rat wasn't even in the story I wrote by this point.