Boy:

Today I started working on my characters. I am going to do them in a cut out style with some puppet pins. I started with my lead character the boy. His design has changed a lot over the pre production process. He started out looking like a zombie child, but that didn’t really work. Then I made him look like a normal chubby little kid, which would have worked if the story was longer and you had more time to develop the character. But, I didn’t have that much time so I am going somewhere in-between the 2 designs. He still has his black eyes and looks a little weird but is mostly normal and unthreatening looking. The fact that he looks a little “off” is going to work pretty well. My movie has a lot of walking with nothing happening, so I think that it is important to tell the audience form frame one that something weird is going on…