1.2 CONCEPT ARTS: The Road to Madness

Before coming up with the final designs of my characters and backgrounds, I came up with multiple early studies picturing what they would look like in the final film. However, due to a lot of circumstances (which are good ones :3 ), these designs evolved gradually into what will you see in my future posts containing some of the final look of my film :)

Take a look at these concept arts which I made during the actual phase of Madman Diaries actual pre-production phase.

           'Hide and Seek' Concept art by Joseph Cartaño and Bea Manalo (Digital)

The final look of these two concept arts which I created roughly two years ago were done through the help of my friend, Bea Manalo, who happened to be my Photoshop master :)

Above are my first few attempts of using texture for backgrounds and flat colors for characters to develop the final style of my project.

These 2 concept arts above features my protagonist placed on top of background designs included in the early draft of my thesis. On this particular script draft, I still had a dark forest area where Finn escapes from an unknown monster.

Lastly, here are some of my oldest character studies for my character, Finn. In these studies, Finn was designed in a semi-rounded and cartoon'ish' style.