Scott acted as the model for the judge animations.

Richard the Third, up to no good, as always.

Character design by Paul Barkshire.

Jin took pictures of us so he could draw us as audience members.

Paul looks kind of pissed off

Scott looks tired.

And I just look terrible.

Blake was also drawn by Jin, but with facebook as a reference, and Jin refused to draw himself, so Scott did drew him and threw this comp together.

Here’s a close-up of Scott. He thinks he looks like he’s in the Beegees.

Paul drew some audience members. And then he killed them. Not all of these audience members made the cut. The characters were drawn as just heads so that we could mix and match the bodies.

I don’t know what to say about this.

Paul Barkshire’s sketches for Romeo’s interview with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Different mouths for lipsynching and full-body character design.

Here’s an attachment for our storyboards.

Maré Odomo drew the pitchers,
Scott Garner wrote some words.
But the whole group took part during our brainstorming sessions.

As you can see, most of our animation stayed true to the storyboards. Click to enlarge.

Made a post to basecamp about Shakespeare Showdown (and email-blasted everyone on the list, which is 40+ people).

Here’s a link to our facebook page! http://bit.ly/shakespeareshowdown

Web banner by Blake Wilton

The first image is a pencil sketch with the lettering very lightly drawn. The next is an inked version and the third, which you’re familiar with, has added texture and digitally-drawn type.

Scott’s sketches for the tournament bracket and a list of potential characters, as well as their gender. It was important that our men’s and women’s division were even.

A shotlist? And a little sketch of the winner’s trophy. Although the overall design changed, the tragedy mask remained as the main element.

A map of the individual “fights”, which basically means, we sat around and thought of different ways the characters could die. We tried to work in elements from their personal histories (e.g. Ophelia drowns) to reward readers, but still make things interesting to those who aren’t as familiar with Shakespeare’s plays. You can also see that we edited some of these scenes out, for the sake of time. The bottom right image might be one of the first times we decided to only show Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from the waist down. This might also be the brainstorm in which we decided to not restrict the audience’s voting to one method. Here, we have three ideas for different kinds of voting. Judges, clickers, and ballots.