I was asked by Nik and Ash to produce some background designs for their underwater scene.
To sae from revealing a pivotal plot pioint in their story, suffice it to say this scene involves a castle and abklue whale. The specifications were that it has to be on A3 and to be in a style consistentwih their simple "innocent" look they were using for the rest of their project. Also the the top of the waves were to utilise the familliar "joined-C" look, so that they could duplicate this into 2 or 3 layers so to animate them independently, adding dimensionality to the scene.
Knowing that their prokjject was set in a snowscape, similar to a location such as iceland in our world, i kept this in mind when designing the scenes to achieve a suitable"icyu" feeling. Their piece is humourous so any visual jokes i thought would be quite un to pop in, though kept these to a minium
A basic start. Nothing too busy. The background is merely to complement their animatic However, as stated above, this scene involves a castle and blue whale both of which will require a look of huge depth and scale so as not to compromise believablilty. The tops of the waves I designed in this pieces were to large aid the purpose
I brightened this one up a bit and added some snowy underwater shelves to add to the cold, icy location.
I added this sign as a humourous element but it looked a little dull so i added a bit of colour to the next one by adding an orange starfish to the sign:
To sae from revealing a pivotal plot pioint in their story, suffice it to say this scene involves a castle and abklue whale. The specifications were that it has to be on A3 and to be in a style consistentwih their simple "innocent" look they were using for the rest of their project. Also the the top of the waves were to utilise the familliar "joined-C" look, so that they could duplicate this into 2 or 3 layers so to animate them independently, adding dimensionality to the scene.
Knowing that their prokjject was set in a snowscape, similar to a location such as iceland in our world, i kept this in mind when designing the scenes to achieve a suitable"icyu" feeling. Their piece is humourous so any visual jokes i thought would be quite un to pop in, though kept these to a minium
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A basic start. Nothing too busy. The background is merely to complement their animatic However, as stated above, this scene involves a castle and blue whale both of which will require a look of huge depth and scale so as not to compromise believablilty. The tops of the waves I designed in this pieces were to large aid the purpose
BG2
I brightened this one up a bit and added some snowy underwater shelves to add to the cold, icy location.
I added this sign as a humourous element but it looked a little dull so i added a bit of colour to the next one by adding an orange starfish to the sign:
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BG5
I liked this one as it felt very depthy, with the layers and i used a bit of reference to get the light caustics on the snowy shelves.
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This one felt more cartoony with the booth (which could have hasd impklications with the is story) It does feel a lot hrighters, although i removed the background layer as i thought it was getting too busy and would detract from the actual movement. The boot does take up a lot of screen space also which could be an issue
I presented these to Nik and Ash and they really liked the one with the sign. Here is the finished picture background.
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