Concept 1

Now we're friends and all I thought I'd skip the introduction and start with a picture. This was based on where I live (which going by this picture is apparently in someones nightmare) a scratchy, inky version of a seaside town. It may be a bit too 'The Nightmare before christmas'. 

BUT I had a eureka moment. I liked the idea of where he lives contrasting with his look so it paints him as someone that doesn't fit in. I started to think about children's cartoons (not in a weird way Im an animation student so they're kind of always on the brain) and it set me on the path of designing the town to be this colourful, cutesy place as to juxtapose Silas and to frame the potential violence so it wasn't as shocking but more comedic like in the same way Tarantino's use of gratuitous amounts of blood make the death of his characters seem less emotive and less real. 

The idea is that the backdrops would be on a cycle as if it were some form of puppet show or a theatre set.