Initial character ideas

The song I chose out of the three I was given was Fuse by Hudson Mowhawke. It had a very electronic bubbly feel to it, and also some tribal elements. My initial sketches were just wiggly blobby creatures because thats what it sounded like to me.



I'm pretty happy with the amoeba style character as I feel it reflects the song quite well. I also wanted to incorporate instruments because I think this is a key element of the song. I experimented a bit with making the instruments look futuristic and weird because thats how they sound in the song but I also don't want to overcomplicate my character as I need to consider how it will be animated later on.

The song has quite a jungly, exploring feel to it so I wanted to try out some character designs based around animals and totem poles.

 

So far, these were my favourite ideas. I'm not keen on the colours I've chosen but maybe a change of media and further experimentation will help with that.



These are some other ideas I came up with for characters but I felt like maybe they were a bit lazy and too simple. Considering I need to make three gifs with the same character, I think I would be able to do more with the totem pole character than these ones.




These are some further developments with the totem pole idea. I'm relatively happy with where it's going, but I think I need to revisit the idea of multiple totem poles and instruments, and definitely experiment with media to work out the colour scheme I want to use.