DGA160-Storytelling/Drawing for Animation: Dogsperados Storyboard

DGA160 Storytelling Group Project- Dogsporados/Storyboard/Character Design

For this task I worked with a group on my course to come up with Narrative Concept. We came up with Dogsperados, which is a similar retelling of Moulin Rouge. Where a female poodle named Shirley Monbone is trapped within the Burlesque industry amongst a Wild West narrative. For our task our groups were asked to create characters and storyboards.
Characters: My friend came up with the name of the protagonist Flint Eastwood (Seen at the bottom right of the four tonal drawings). Shirley MonBone is seen on the left of Eastwood. Above Shirley is George Fleebags an extra spare character who is a shoe shine boy, To the right of George, Balto another extra aggressive character I created. 

What is happening in the storyboard: For the traditional 2D storyboard I created, Flint Eastwoof enters the Saloon and asks for a drink and the barpug gets a drink, other dog-hybrid-cow-boys are smoking/playing darts. The scene then cuts to the corridor where Fruti-cake the Burlesque owner is yelling at Shirley for trying to leave the buisness. Shirley then leaves to go to the bar and then is met with a drunken angry Flint Eastwoof. My group had create storyboard introducing each individual characters, I thought I'd end with with all the characters being brought together (the main characters being Flint Eastwoof, Shirley Mon-bone, FruitCake and the pug bars man)

Good things and Improvements: Overall, I am happy with the concepts of the characters, I feel it is an interesting Wild West anthropomorphic retelling of Moulin Rouge. Furthermore, I am overall happy with the drawings I created for the concept, I suppose for the storyboard I could add colour and tone for it to be of greater interest. For the character designs I would add a background/intentions/character traits for there to be greater clarity, also the drawings for characters were stuck in my sketchbook therefore causing it to be difficult to scan. Next Time I feel it would more aesthetically pleasing if I scanned the images for a greater refinement of lines and texture.