Preparation#2 - Drawing Objects

Now that I feel much more comfortable and confident drawing in Flash, I thought that drawing the objects should be a breeze!

I thought that the most important thing would be to keep the colours bright and far away from the colour of Murtagh's body, so that everything stands out, and that Murtagh can also stand out.

Firstly, I drew a table top upon which the objects could stand and behind which Murtagh could be, the missing bottom-half of his body hidden!

Here are the two pots where the grown plant lives (the bigger pot on the left), and the little pot where the seed can be planted after it has been found (the green pot on the right).

I made the soil a deep purple-blue - after all, we are on an alien planet where the sky isn't blue and the grass isn't green and soil is certainly not black or brown.

I think that this has a nice visual effect and makes everything a little more exotic and interesting for the player.

Here are the two stems of the flowers. The larger one on the left will be the stem for the grown flower, and the smaller stem will be the start of the new flower which grows from the seed once it has been planted.

Hot pink is better than green!

Here are the two leaves which will be coming from the stem (in normal earthly fashion), which will rustle or move when clicked by the player.

I decided to make them purple, but a very different, richer and deeper purple than the purple of Murtagh's body.

I decided to make them a little spikey - maybe like holly, to make them more interesting and a little stranger.

Here is the 'bud' of the flower, which looks a bit like a four-leaf clover. This design was also just to keep the 'bud' different from the circular 'bud' that most earthly flowers have. It also has a bit of a swirl in it's center, just to make it a little more peculiar!

This is what the flower's petals will originally look like - pale fleshy pink and yellow - very boring and ugly and plain. This will help to contrast strongly when the petals change colour and go from plain to insane (rainbow insane that is).

Here are each of the seven 'insane' colours for the new petals - which together make up the rainbow.

I think that they are beautiful and contrast well with the plain petal shown above. The colours in order from left to right are:

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet (ROYGBIV)

Here is the seed, which will pop out of the flower when the petals have been removed in the right order. I thought that a golden sphere seed would be pretty cool.

And, last but not least, here is the equally golden watering can - which will have baby pink water inside it.

It looks just like any other watering can, but it's golden, so it's much better!

Maybe it also keeps the right conditions for the magical water inside it, which will make the flower's petals change colour.

Here is the complete arrangement of flower and objects together on the table.

I think that this looks really nice.

I put the flower more to the right of the stage as opposed to in the center to make room for Murtagh. I don't want him to be hidden or ignored behind the plant.

Also, I decided that for this reason, I'll put the watering can on the right as opposed to the left (where I had imagined it and drawn it in the storyboard) so that the watering of the plant can be seen to the side of Murtagh, rather than over him.

Now I have to create the background (which will be similar to the deteriorated blue walls seen in the walk-cycle.