
The above is the basic design for the animated bits in
Kiamu!!!, excerpted
from
the Njet-Steng explanation & demonstration scene. The basic design is...well..basic. The character is casted against a white background.
Looking at how dull and flat it is, I've decided to add a bit of texture into the design. And what other texture would be better to represent school students other than paper? So I applied a recycled paper look to it:

I think it looks fine but still plain somehow. So I revisit the schoolboy-paper concept and applied a lined school exercise/notebook look to it:

I think this looks better in some sense, but i still somehow preferred the wrinkles that I get from the other version, as it gives a somewhat grittier look. So i added the two elements up:

I'm liking this one, especially the depths I'm getting from it. So i took this design and played around with the colours and ended up with the one below:
I'm liking the reddish tint that somehow shows as if the material has worn out due to it's age. Which is cohesive with the concept that the narrator is describing events from his past. It also goes well with the colour theme of the whole production - Red, White & Black.