Phillip
As part of my final major project at University, I set myself a goal to create a collection animated sequences featuring my character, Phillip.
In terms of his personality, Phillip is described as someone who’s incompetent, lazy and thoughtless. Therefore, I wanted these sequences to highlight his careless personality, while making his behaviour look hilarious.
In this sequence, Phillip is enjoying a glass of wine. He picks up the bottle and accidentally drops bottle on table, spilling wine everywhere.
In this scene, phillip is enjoying a cigarette and decides to throw it away. However, the cigarette catches alight and Phillip frantically goes over to put out the fire. He dramatically sighs in relief.
In this sequence, Phillip picks his ear and goes to inspect the earwax on his finger. When he’s disgusted by the sight of the earwax , he flicks it away. Later on, Phillip obliviously starts gnawing on his finger and becomes shocked by what he’s doing.
In this shot, Phillip walks onto some dog mess and picks up his shoe to inspect it. He doesn’t know whether to keep his shoe, as it’s still dirty. He looks away to see if there's anybody watching him. Having reached a decision, he carelessly throws his shoe away.
In this shot, I really wanted to shoe off phillips age by giving him a very stiff ederly walk. However, the result turn out to be more flamboyant than I expected. Furthermore, due to my schedule, I wasn’t able to produce a fully animated version of this walk
Before I could animate phillip for my major project, I decided to do a series test to help me understand how he could perform and the type of expressions he could convey.
For one of the tests (right), I wanted to base phillip's performance on a piece of dialogue from 'Fawlty Towers'.