Hey folks - these week we're taking a look at the matriarch of the Burp family - Norma.
Norma is as old as Charles, but I imagine her being more physically active and energetic. Much more fit and flexible.
I think I've made her just a bit too young looking, however. She needs some more age lines on her face.
The above pose is kinda dopy, her right arm doesn't feel natural.
I spent more time playing around with texture here than I have in the other characters. I like how it turned out, but I haven't yet created a logic behind the texture. Her shirt looks like a burlap sack. I do kind of like it though.
I will have to refine my inking technique quite a bit between now and when I make the final puppets. I haven't worked in pen and ink that much, most of my old characters are very clean, cell-esque designs. I want this film to be a lot more tactile, to take advantage of how much information we can put into a cut-out character. While I was working on Norma, I experimented with building outlines and definition with value instead of just drawing a thick black outline (think Maurice Sendak), though this final version does have my usual black outline. I'm very tempted to re-ink all of these characters once I've completed the family unit, just to see how they all look without outlines. I'm guessing it'll class em up a whole lot.
Next time one of our producers will chime in with a look at that side of our process!
take care,
MPH
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