Are These Interesting?

[julian beresford]

Number 5 for me too!

[burvantill]

I hate to add to your work, but I think these would be great as a sequence. the snow man looking for his arm in 1 & 2 and ending with him looking at the dog in 3. This is a really cute idea. I don't see SLOW in it though. I hope you finish it, even if you miss the deadline. That dog is adorable. =)x

[Chip Valecek]

@jon-anderson I also like #3 but you are right, I don't see "Slow" in it. Unless maybe you start to have him melt. Like he is melting slowly.

[Heather Boyd]

@jon-anderson

Hello I like the following with reasons why:

#5 Reminds me of a Halloween pumpkin so I had to take a second look. And it's funnier now because he could have his snow body somewhere else in the forest and for some reason someone thought it be amusing to separate him from his body ( a bit cruel too -which could be why he's grumpy lols).
#11 Old Scrooge treatment of a snowman draws my eye because people generally make friendly jolly snowman, I like a redemption character.
#12 Baby snowman could go side by side with the Scrooge (as you have drawn him right by him). The baby snowman looks terrified. I really just now like how those two characters subtly whether intentional or not interact. If you did that with some of the others that would be very cool.
#14 Not sure how helpful this reason will be but I really like the full round snowball that makes up that snowman at the bottom (larger than life if you pushed it more). Just in editing mode if the bottom snowball is rolling snowball (legless), that's how he would move.
#7 ( I know out of order lols ) I like his shape (reminds me of the Grinch -new animated move with Benedict C.) and your snowman's enthusiasm for life.

Well I hope that helps, let me know if I need to explain more.
Oh and I like #10 a bit (a plump version of Mary Poppins comes to mind -just saw that advertised yesterday again).

[Jon Anderson]

@heather-boyd That is great insight, thanks!
The snowball on the stump was directly inspired by a jack-o'-lantern and since designing him I've had all sorts of things pop into my head to try and flesh out the backstory similar to what you described. This little guy is begging to be made into a project/product of some kind.
The idea of a rolling snowball (BB-8 style) instead of scooting or waking on legs never even entered my mind but that's a neat concept! I honestly hadn't even considered the similarity between #7 and the Grinch but I like that. I might tweak the shapes a bit to really push that similarity.
Your comments were very helpful in helping me understand what traits really stand out to people and which designs tend to fall back.

[Sophie Lawson]

4 made me giggle, but I seem to like number 1 best. Feel like it's a moment of a story, like, I can imagine him turning round and the scene carrying on.

[Jon Anderson]

Whew! Slowvember wasn't so slow after all. I did a few color studies on the thumbnail where the snowman was looking in the doghouse and the dog was watching from the inside the main house, but I was not happy with any of them. So I simplified it to finish on time. I really wanted to make the other composition work but I'm happy with the rendering. I need to learn how to take better pictures of the work, though. Thank you all for the feedback you've given on this thread! If you have any thoughts on the final image please feel free to share them.