Update

Illustrator updates. Been working on these two poses the past few days. Finishing them up this week along with starting some animation tests.

Sketches to Be Cleaned Up

Original Background Concept

This was our concept image for when we decided we wanted to use live action backgrounds. As stated previously, however, we weren't able to get good photos for live backgrounds, so they will more than likely be drawn for the final film. Also, our real backgrounds would have obviously been sized to fit the turtles. This image was just a test image grabbed off of google.

More References

Eric striking poses for drawlrings:

G.I. Joe Shtuffs:

Turtle with Thompson. Shooting. (in progress)

Work on the shooting view of the turtle with Thompson. Just need to complete his arm, gun and shell and fix up his porportions to match the original.

Turtle with Thompson behind cover. Final

Finished version of him. Fixed up his hand and a few other slight issues.

Rifle References and kittehs! (Eric Style)

Effects

Random Assorted page for tracers and bullet impacts. Started after detailing legless. Will be continuing to post new effects here and there.

Finalized Legless

Calling him done for now. There may be some slight detail changes later but nothing major.

Legless Update

Starting to clean-up the legless sketch and make him look better. Needs more detail work still but he's getting there!

Trip to Metro-Beach

Our original plan was to use live action backgrounds for our project. However, seeing as it was late in the season and not having realized how crappy Metro-Beach was, we decided that it would be best to draw our backgrounds.

Metro-Beach just doesn't look like a place where baby sea turtles would hatch:

Tracks...

Buildings...

Muck...

Haze, more tracks...

Chunky sand...

We found a dead fish though. It was big and stinky!

Closer Look:

And here's some gull footage. Some people were feeding them, despite the signs saying not to:

All in all, even if we didn't get what we needed, it was still a nice day.

Turtle with Thompson Behind Cover

Arms needs fixing, but pretty much done.

Layout for last stand scene

Ready for animation. Also made a few different muzzle flashes as well as tracers.

Legless

This is the page of initial sketches that gave birth to legless.