Thursday, 26 February 2015

PART TWO: Rough concepts

Alien Dad

An alien wakes up to his loud alarm clock. Frustrated by the sound he hits it. The alien is shown in short shots washing, putting on his tie and having breakfast with his human family. His family acts normal because they don't realise that he's an alien.

He kisses his wife goodbye, ruffles his son's hair and puts on his hat as he's leaving. He's shown sitting in his car in rush hour traffic getting road rage and listening to music in his car.
He arrives at work and sits in his depressing little cubicle only to discover that his boss has let him go. He packs his desk and pot plant and he leaves.
He goes for a drive in the rain and he slows down when he sees a massive bright billboard on the side of the road. It reads “Life got you down? Are you a sad loser? Join the National Space Defence now!”
The next shot is of him sitting down explaining to his family about this new opportunity, showing them a pamphlet and doing arm gestures with a massive smile on his face. They also look happy but slightly concerned.
He's being signed up by the registry person and they shake hands and he gets handed his uniform/gun/helmet.
It cuts to a scene on another planet. Alien Dad's in his uniform in complete shock, it's his home planet and everyone's being slaughtered. It's very extreme and shocking. He goes back to Earth and he signs up for an office job. He's seen sitting in another cubicle but this time he has a smile.

The End


PART TWO: Rough concepts
I have put together some characters that I like. Their style and general design interest me. I want to use similar styles of the images on the left and the design of the images on the right.
I have also drawn a couple of heads for Alien Dad's wife. She looks slightly too young here though.

Wednesday, 25 February 2015




PART TWO: Rough concepts
I decided to draw some concepts for an alien dad character who has a human wife and child. I really like the designs I have done for the wife and child. I'm not quite as satisfied with the alien dad so far.

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

PART ONE: Brainstorming and Ideation
I have created this brainstorm to help myself create a short story ready to pitch. I wrote down a few things that interested me and I linked a few of them together to expand my ideas.
I like the idea of an alien doing normal human things e.g working in an office cubicle, delivering the local paper or even being stuck on an economy class flight.