Maya Character Update

Just an update on how my characters are going.
After talking to Jack I've changed how the Old Mans clothes are going to be. Instead of being cloth they simply won't be, this is to save time, and it's really not necessary as his clothes won't be hanging off him.
I'll be starting to add more detail now, like the faces, I'm expecting to put this into Mudbox/Zbrush at some point soon. Bounnong offered to do that for me, not too sure if I'll take him up that offer just yet though.
While I like what I've done so far I think I'm a little behind in terms of where I want to be. I was hoping to have had the characters modelled before we got back from holidays.

My first attempt at nCloth. I haven't really changed any of the options around so it's really not perfect but I think it's a good demonstration of that can be done simply. At the moment it takes around 50 frames for the cloth to settle before animation can begin so that's something that I'll certainly have to keep in mind for later.

Here is what I have modeled so far of the Little Girl. I realised after a little while that I was going tro have to make a body underneath her clothing, even though I hadn't drawn that into my turn arounds, so that I could do cloth. I realise that this is something simple sounding but I haven't done cloth before. I wanted to have her modeled by the end of the week but that probably wont happen, mostly because of learning what I'll have to do if I want to do cloth properly, but I am still happy with how things are going, even if it's slow going.

My Final Animatic

I think this came out rather well.

Research, Style, Mood

Before I forget. Here are all the character research, style reference and mood boards. Not too shabby if you ask me.

Character Poses

Here are my poses. The characters don't move around all that much. Its more sitting to standing... so that's what I did.

Layouts

Dude. I'd say things are looking pretty sweet at the moment.
Pending Neales decision I'd like to think these will be my final layouts. I guess that's all I have to say about that.
The first image shows the initial thumbnail shots which I then made pretty and then added colour.

Just a quick little (maybe slightly large (that's what she said)) update

Here we have the characters and the Little Girls many forms. I don't think making the younger Little Girl will be all that hard in Maya as it would be essentially the same model just scaled down and all I'd need to change is the clothing and hair, yes it would take some time but I don't think it's a huge amount of work.

The Old Man has had a last minute mirrioring because when I originally visualised how he was going to look I had his telescopic eye as the left eye, the problem with this is that it wouldn't work how it needed to in the script to make the Little Girls eyes look the same, instead she would look further deformed. I also added the exit of the telescope out of the back of his head.

These are the layouts Ill be doing (pending what Neale says). I've taken what I had done in my thumbnails and prettied them up a little more now I just need to colour them.
I haven't thought all that much about colour, other than it will have most of the colour pulled out at the beginning, also with a slight sepia tone to it, and colour will slowly be added back by the end.

That's all for now. I know I've posted a lot of the same things with only minor changes but I think any progress is still progress. The rest of the stuff I'm working on isn't far away from being finished so there will hopefully be a big update soon.