Emina

They might not practically help us working on the project, but please do spend time to have a read.
如何當一個好的領導人，Google用演算法幫我們導出
精實創業，從小賈斯汀的崛起看 / English ver.
By the way, just thought the character settings in here are quite interesting

I did some sketches of the characters that I've designed,
young and old Isabel and some environment sketches.
 
 

Anyways, just uploading what I've tried drawing so far
> some very first attempts of the characters:
 
> the bus twins (the driver is really so hard to draw Orz. needs different hairstyle)
> a b/w rough sketch/paint of the town in the opening - scene where granny and Luca walks uphill towards the bus stop
And.... a rough rough image sequence of the first half of the story. Hope it will be quite helpful when we're storyboarding
Lastly, I found this pic in my files, forgot where its from though
Some more ideas of what the magical city can look like
Hope the pitch would go well. **trembling**

umm.. this is colour testing number 1
the outline and colouring isnt that great coz its just an rough draft,
somehow she turned out a bit western = 3 =.. dont know why hahaha

http://www.geocities.jp/psm021/oldTop.html
http://www.geocities.jp/psm021/toukyoTop.html
 
I really like this person's style on backgrounds and building

Photos include old Taiwanese houses, european buildings, nature scenery, etc.
Link 1
Content: 表姊新家→南投→三育書院→日月潭→紙教堂→金山老街
Link 2
Content: 幾米世界的角落特展  (or here)
(幾米和ㄧ些裝置藝術家合作，夢幻的佈景讓人感覺彷彿闖入異世界、回到童年。內有ㄧ些幾米親自畫的水彩畫，其中情境很值得細細品嘗並參考。)
   

An animation clip with the similar atmosphere that we want?
Music: Hachi (ハチ)
Animation: Minaken (南方研究所)
We can search for other clips that Minaken made, might give us more inspiration ^^

Photobucket link