Mood Boards

As I’ve been taught on my Computer Animation course for the last 2 years, it’s always best to get together a collection of images as well as putting together a mood board for each character. What follows are my findings which I will be using to help me design my characters as well as some of the background designs.

Tom

Since the style and look of the cartoon will be based heavily on the already referenced Evil dead comic, for the character of Tom I have found images of various incarnations of the character Ash, and his actor Bruce Campbell. Another huge inspiration is the character Peter Gibbons as portrayed by Ron Livingston in the movie Office Space.

Reference Sources:

Office Space DVD

The Evil Dead DVD

Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn DVD

Evil Dead Regeneration PS3 Game

Evil Dead The Musical

My Name Is Bruce DVD

Army Of Darkness Comic

Office Space Merchandise

Bob

For Bob I looked at a number of different sources to create a character based on a mixture of ideas. I really liked the idea of having Bob look like a zombie version of Jonathan Coulton, since he is the one singing his lines this makes sense for the character. Other pictures are a combination of zombie picture from comics I have really liked the look of in the past, and stuff I found searching around on Google and Deviant Art. Style and research choices I am interested in are other simplified ways to draw zombies and usage of shadows for zombie crowds.

I have also again referenced the movie Office Space, this time with Peter's annoying Boss

Bill Lumbergh played by actor Gary Cole. At a later date I will do a blog post which will go into more detail about the relevance and importance of the movie Office Space, and its effect on this project.  

Reference Sources:

Office Space DVD

Army Of Darkness Comic

Stubbs The Zombie Xbox Game

Marvel Zombies Comic

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto DVD

Pictures Of Johnthon Coulton

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Other Zombie Images

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Janice

This character is created especially for the animation and is not part of the original song. Janice will work as the heroine for Tom to rescue from zombies and shack up with at the end. For inspiration I again looked at the Evil dead comics to get an idea of what women look like in the Nick Bradshaw style, and searched for images on Google for secretaries.

Reference Sources:

Army Of Darkness Comic

Secretary Images

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Background Ideas

Lastly are a couple of pictures found on Google of business offices. This gives me an idea of where the animation is set and what the backgrounds might look like.

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