The first group project is based on stories of the ocean recorded by a local journalist. The story we've been assigned is about a gentleman who saves a young man who is being dragged out to sea. The narrative is relatively simple which were able to break down into five main points.
The image on the left shows the first brainstorm after listening to the narrative. As a group we decided that we would prefer to explore the 2D side of animation in creating this animation. In addition the idea of using a slightly more abstract styles incorporating the idea of morphing & metaphorical idea of waves, for example the white horses which I previously used in my sea test. The use of a more abstract style would also give us scope to incorporate more characters in necessary & use a less realistic nature. Prior to do making any decisions set in stone as to the media we'll use it will be necessary to do further sea tests, but the idea of using watercolours & ink is the first thing that has come to mind.
These are some examples of references & ideas I've discovered using watercolour as the main medium. I particularly like the use of bleeding the paints to imply a use of light & change in the water. I also like the use of white specks in the shades of blue to imply sea spray.
I chose the image below entitled 'Kissing the Wave' as it uses the idea of morphing & combining the use of the wave to create other images, which is an effect we'd like to create our animation. The waves in this design are in a more Japanese style.
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