Watercolours

After doing some research and experimentation with watercolour and ink, I have decided to use watercolour as my main medium for the environments of my animation. Some of my inspirations come from the following artists.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, “Caricature of a Man Holding a Three-cornered Hat”
I like the use of strong lines and subtle tone in the form of the man in this painting.

Joseph William Mallord Turner R.A., "Storm at Sea"
I love the loose, expresive brush strokes that create texture and the colours bleeding into each other in this painting that create a lot of depth and movement in what is a limited and almost abstract painting.

John Ruskin, “Study of Boulders”
I like the fine detail and textures created in this work and the use of pens for fine details.

Roterscoping

These two examples of how roterscoping can be used really well. I live the deatils in A sCanner Darkly and the bright colours in the Nike Plus I Run advertisement.

Environments

This Irish animation has beautiful watercolour environments. I like the use of colour in the scenes to evoke different emotions and the textures created through letting colour bleed into each other.

Rough Cut

This is the rough Cut for the first animation for this year.

This is a really nice story

I love the simple animation style and mixture of photos and 2D animation and the great story.

Stop Motion

The Little Prince is a famous French book and the inspiration for this moleskin add. I like the use of layers of paper to create depth and the pale colours in the animation.

Animatic

This is the animatic to the storyboard and script in the previous post. I'm quite happy with the sound, although I think there still needs to be more ambient noise in the bamboo forest, the main character needs to be shown, and parts of the difference between photos, TV shots and real life need to be shown.