Anime Style Animation - WIP

Last week I teamed up with my cousin Jatinder Singh to start work on a anime style animation. Jatinder is a very talented artist and is currently studying at an art school in London, Elephant & Castle. We always planned to work on a project together because we both have some brilliant ideas and we both possess skills that complement each other.

Currently Jatinder is working on the concept art and is drawing up some characters that we want to put in this animation. We definately know the main story and jist of it and we already have a lead character, 'Monkey Boy'. We are also going to elimnate the need for sound effects or voice acting and just have music playing through, which will suit the mood of the emotion.

I won't go into too much detail about the story until we have a more solid concept and made a few more decisions on setting. What I can say is that it is about a boy (Monkey boy) alone in a dead and deserted city (think of 'I Am Legend'), he seems lost but hears this blissful music, and he goes in search to find the source of the music, hoping to find someone.

I've been doing some test renders, trying to get the cell shading similar to animes, and found a very useful 3ds Max plugin that generates building blocks (Greeble).

Below are some concept drawings of monkey boy that Jatinder did and some test renders I did in 3ds Max.