Finished image of my background and with the work area I designed added to it.

This is the design I have made for the men at work sign and done it in three different stages to give an idea of how it will look. The first showing the sign with the character in it, the second with his eyes open and the third without the silhouette. In the third sign i decided that when the silhouette comes out I wanted it to be left with an indent of where he should be, so I made it to look like this so the audience relates to the silhouette coming from inside the sign.

I have taken the rough drawing and design I done of the work area as I really liked this, brought it into photoshop redrew it and coloured it. I aimed to make it so it would suite well with my background, I think that it does and works very well together and keeps the cartoony style which I like.

Here is the background I have designed and coloured for my animation, I have used the rough drawing shown in the previous post as a bases to eventually design the background above, I used the same building style as in the line drawing and the idea of a lamppost and drain on the floor. The only thing that has been changed slightly is the extra building which is only partly shown and the alley with a gate in between the buildings.
I like the idea of the colours been very cartoony and bright as i think this appeals to people more than it looking dull and using dull colours, I also prefer to work in this style.

I done this rough drawing of the work area on a street and liked the idea of it and the design so I have decided to use this image as a bases on what I want the background and the work area to eventually look like.

These are the turnarounds I have designed for my work man character, I done the line drawing first then brought it into Photoshop and drew over it and colored it with black and white shading.

Originally I wanted my design of the work man to change from the silhouette into a coloured character, but after some advice from my tutors and thinking about the style myself I decided that the character would fit more into my animation as a black and white character.

I decided this as the silhouette on the men at work sign is black and if he was to change into a coloured character then they would not really correspond together as one, so due to this it was a better idea to have the character as a black and white design so that the audience relates more to the character been the silhouette but coming to life magically as a work man.

Here I have brought my line drawing into Photoshop and coloured it in black and white, then I have made the character from scratch as a final design in black and white shading, also done in Photoshop.