My concept starts with me and my twin sister in an different universe. I was initially going to have a younger and older version of the twins. The clothing is inspired by Chinese styled dresses and tech-wear found on Pinterest. These being so early on I should have done multiple sketches instead of just solo sketches of the characters to try to understand the characters than just being aesthetically good to look at.
The story consisted of the twins going through life in different rooms before meeting up as very different adults. I wanted adult designs originally to match this mature themes of Love and Unity. The reason this was scrapped is because me and my sister are not at the end of our adulthood in fact we are at the very beginning so using very adult characters doesn’t match us in the present. It would also be difficult to gauge the personality me or my sister would have as we grew older so I decided to age them down to make it easier for me to apply me and my sister to them now.
My first thoughts was to keep them looking as different as possible. So that the contrast from the younger versions are polar opposites at the end. This was scrapped because of time and cutting the story shorter to not include the younger versions of themselves. However, I still wanted to keep them looking different so they became more like contrasts of each other rather than the younger counterparts of themselves.
The designs themselves are very striking and detailed. These characters are opposites from one another because of the traditional look of the second character versus the right who is much more rugged and loose in their clothing style. In illustration these characters would work very well however, in animation these designs would not work at all.
For 2D hand drawn animation they are far too detailed and have too many aspects to their design to worry about when keeping it consistent throughout the animation process. There are many overlapping designs so their detail gets lost in the silhouette. I should have started with silhouettes and creating unique ones that match the characters personality. The young girl designs are very simple and effective due to them being literal copies of each other shows the twins motif well and the distinguished eyes let them stand out.
