I was doodling at work today (while rendering of course) and I was greatly influenced by a short film that I saw shortly before on youtube called “9″ created by a fellow called Shane Acker. I find that trying to come up with an idea just after you’ve witness something cool like that really stinks. I’m not sure if I’m the only one, I hope not. I was doodling and I kept noticing that my sketches were a lot like the short that I just saw. I kept trying to make it different somehow but it wasn’t working. Even though I was making concepts for FF by the end of the doodling session my pages were filled with characters and scenes that where a hybrid of 9 and FF. It was mainly the villain in 9 that really inspired me to redo some designs for FF.

One thing I that I got out of all that is that I’m set in adding a few more things to the story and design of this film. I’ll have to wait a few days until 9 is out of my system so I can come up with original ideas again.

http://shaneacker.com/