Acting Up - Pre Production - Some More Studies and Concepts

So I sketched out a couple more studies in how the prop should be handled, as well as the poses that are normally used by experienced bo staff and naginata wielders (Oh god I have been calling it halberd or spear this whole time...). While I had my video reference, if possible, I would love to animate some slightly more fancy looking techniques as compared to what I was able to do.

There was a really neat guide showing a wielder using the weapon as a form of support to throw his high kick, but I sort of ran out of space and so did these tiny little silhouettes instead that I could refer to if I get the chance to insert it into the animation.

And after that quick study of Moom (In a past post), I realise that I needed to see how he, the model, looks as he handles the prop, I also added in props from the other two songs I had ended up scrapping (AKA, "Shark Fighter" and "Five O'clock World"), again, I didn't want to abuse any cute, animated sharks.

I then quickly did up some background concepts (That I will let my peers and lecturers choose from during my interim crit), while it is the animation that will be the main focus, I was wondering if it would still be possible to design a nice background to enhance Moom's performance and the overall animation. And so I tried out a couple of different moods, colours palettes and locations, while also making sure that the ground was not too textured (Eg, grass) to cause any complications when modelling later on.