OUT OF YOUR HEAD
This article is based on an extension of the reflection in PDF, which is more about steps than mental activity.
We started with a story that came out of one of our favorite scenes, where a poor man sits on top of an air conditioner smoking a cigarette and then developed various fantasies about how to suicide.
But then I found the story too boring, so I created a motivation: he suicide because of gambling debts.
After the story about gambling, we design the main character as a lucky dog, since he go to college he won a variety of awards only by his luck, finally, he wants something bigger, more exciting. Then he went to the casino, he won a lot, satisfied has produced illusion, then he put all his fortune in the next turn, then he lost all his money but Still owe a large debt, Here comes the opening scene. He was sitting on the air conditioner, and the debt collector had come to the door, then he jumped.
Then I use premiere to make a dynamic story board to see the outcome.
After that, I do some character design stuff. Actually this is the part I am most satisfied with.
In the beginning, The character I designed at the beginning was very realistic, which not only I didn’t like but also difficult to draw. Then I think he was too ordinary, so I went to find some interesting face shapes, and I thought it would be nice if he looked like an eggplant. Then I thought of a monkey from this shape because I thought it would be funny to make the main character look like a monkey.
When it comes to the casino theme, my teammates and I are particularly interested in the dealer, “Sexy Dealer Online”（性感荷官在线发牌）, which is always a rolling advertisement on pirated movies.
When designing these two characters, I looked at some concept designs of the game and some photos of real dealers, most of whom have mature hairstyles. Most of the time their purpose is to attract more men into the casino, but I still find this profession, which seems to exist only in pirated movies, very interesting. Because I wanted the main characters to look like monkeys, so they also had an animal-like design.
I like gangster movies or violence aesthetics and the like, the boss is designed according to the stereotype, at first I hope he looks like huskies, presumably because huskies look silly, I think if the main character defeated by a husky will be very funny. but later, because just see the gorilla pictures, feel this is too powerful, So the boss became a gorilla, and for the clothes design, because I think there are too many gangsters wearing suits, so I changed it to the Hawaiian shirt.
During this period, the story changed again, that is, I deleted the aura of the main character, so that he was just cheated, step by step to think that he was a lucky man.
After that, I finished it with Xinyue Geng in group B, if only describing the steps.
The next part is the discordant style I mentioned. Maybe I read too many references, so there are many styles in the paragraph I drew, and they are not unified.