Character designs on the Fly

While the character designs that i had already produced were satisfactory to get the basic shapes of the characters, as scenes with these characters start to crop up i feel much less confident about animating them without a colour plan first. For example for one of the later shots when we first meet the character receiving the delivery.

This has lead to what i feel to be a pretty unconventional production method of doing the final pre production for the characters just before i animate with them. It has worked particuarly well for this character as his first shot is static so i can simply insert the character design into the shot, however the shot of the old man, and the shot of the 3 thugs will have be coloured whilst being animated, perhaps using the first frame to work out final colours.