Above is a piece of concept art I did for my bible. I used noir reference for the scene, but then made it my own with the characters and the colouring. Below are a couple of facial expressions for the Monkey character. I had fun doing these as I really like his character design, although I think I could have worked more on the colouring of his clothes.

Below are the images that I only coloured, as the sketches were created by Dorian Barry, a member of my team. I had gained a lot of experience at this stage with the colouring and was happy to take on the task.

http://dorianimates.blogspot.co.uk/

Final Test Shots

Here is a video of the final outcome of my test shots. I've tried to stick to the style as best as possible with the characters and now the backgrounds too. I struggled quite a lot with the backgrounds, as the ones seen in Rojankovsky's work are mostly of grass and woodland, whereas the setting for my story is more urban. Even so, I tried to get across the pencil strokes - this was quite different working in TV Paint rather than in Photoshop.

I looked at atmospheric audio that would put across the slightly eerie and tense situation Parrot is put in when he's about to discover the victim. I used sound effects such as footsteps, breathing and a squeak. As for the Chameleon, I wanted to use the short piano sound to indicate his surprise alongside his gasp.