Sometimes things just don’t go according to plan. I got a commission to do a sample character design and illustration for an educational course. It was a pretty interesting brief. The idea was that there were a bunch of little characters that lived inside a machine who were observing our world. Over the length of the course they and the machine would evolve and it all had to be designed to be suitable for animation – something I had been suggesting to the client for a while.
The sample was for a tiny amount of money but if I won the contract it was for a lot of work. More importantly it was a cool idea so I had at it with a will!
Another Bright Idea!
I was pretty pleased with the way it came out and so were the clients. I got the job. Hurrah!….. kind of.
Then the pain started. Millions of tweaks and changes which all had to be done in full colour, financially disastrous but still.
Does any one know how to switch this thing on?
Now my clients had their own clients and they hadn’t been showing them any of this work. A shame really because when they did the response was ‘ We don’t like the machine idea.’ End of project for Dave
Like I said. Sometimes things just don’t go according to plan.
