Ken Morrissey's design experiments

Ken really knows how to carve a line.

Grandy:

Hartford Graves (my new villain):

More Bancroft color experiments

Chris at it again coloring one of Ken Morrissey's designs for Grandy.



Another color script sketch of Lucy by Chris

color keys

From Chris Bancroft:

Lucy

An early character design the great Ken Morrissey

And some color/texture explorations by the talented Christopher Bancroft based on one of my doodles.

Grandy

The Price character has evolved into Grandy, Lucy's grandfather.  He's her guardian, and a wheelchair-bound windup toymaker.

Eli

Ok.  The story is really starting to take shape!

Here's the school bully, Eli.  He's turning into an important character.

Gargoyles

The screenplay evolves.  Toying with all sorts of ideas, like introducing other nightmare creeps.  Like gargoyles.

Environments reference

The last version of Lucy took place entirely inside a dream.  It was a short.  After learning more about the Hero's Journey, I decided to turn Lucy into a feature screenplay.  Maybe I could make another short film out of bits and pieces form the feature, and sell it to investors that way.

After reading my first attempt at a feature screenplay (another awful story!), Claire Morrissey, friend and talented story artist from DreamWorks suggested maybe the story should be told in both worlds, waking and dreaming.   This made perfect sense, so I started reinventing the story again, this time in tornado alley.   It seemed like a nice balance, having warm colors in the waking world, cool in the dream.

Vehicles reference

Armed with some new knowledge about how to tell a story, I attacked the story from a new angle.  One with some reinventions of the same characters.  The nightmare monster is now a nightmare man.  With a nightmare car?