James and the giant peach

Layouts

So its about time i looked into layouts. So I began to sketch these simple ideas that i feel would work.

I then began to work on the laptop using photoshop and illustrator to make my illustrations a reality. and came up with the idea of creating a simple background using a picture of clouds overlay-ed to give the background more depth.

However i have designed another cover that strips away the backgroun and for some reason i like beteer.

It plays on the idea of simplicity that I got form the sketches of Quentin Blake.Simple ways simple outcomes. Simple can be powerful.

Idea 3.

Playing with this font furhter i need a boundery box to really focuse the viewers eye towards the character in the font .....after sketching a few layout ideas i began to incorporate the idea of a peach squash. As in athe juices expelled from a peach and came up with an unique layout box which fitted right into the piece.

Idea 2.

Taking my font i began to play with the desing and moving it to overlay characters in the font I decided to overlay my chracter into the font. Which in turn gave me this.

It is simple imagery that is also typographically appealing.

Idea 1.

So taking this image of my chracter i have decided to subtley include it in my piece i just have to find the right font first . So i looked in these several fonts to see what would work. I found a simpl font named HSP that i feel best suited the novel.

3d character

So linking into the actual movie theme and looking into the animation side of the film I decided to create my own character. He is about 8 inches in length and made form simle modling clay. the chracter is ruff and unfinished but I actualy like this element to it.

Idea Generating.

So here are a few sketches of how I am going to generate ideas for this piece. Taking the original character produced my Tim Burton for the film, I have decided to make my own character.

I want him to be oversize proportionately inaccurate and unbelievable in its completion. These sketches represent some ideas I have for how the character should look and compares them to original character.