Bottle - Layouts

Examples of background layouts for Bottle - each element is on a separate layer so it is able to be moved around in the scene. Especially if it is an element to be interacted with.

Some of the shots are not regular 1080/920 format due to the changing screen size in bottle & also to be able to move the frame around the layout if required.

The Director will later make animation notes on this, sketching key positions & details within the frame to aid animators in understanding what is required.

Backgrounds Design.

Experimenting with a technique shown to us my John Gosler! 

Simply using the lasso tool to create shapes, need to work on the clouds & adding further texture... but I am very fond of the effect & would definitely work in this way. Also need to work out to create a more water style appearance...

The image is based on Patagonia, Argentina from my Pinterest.

Nathan Aardvark - Backgrounds

Nathan Aardvark is an illustrator who specialises in speed & mood painting. His illustrations to the left are favoured due to the busy & surreal nature.

The worlds he creates are seemingly meant for a small character in a natural world, enhanced by the highly saturated, bright colours making it appear otherworldly & surreal. Aarvark also uses details of lighting to imply life in his foliage & plants in the foreground. For example it appears

as though the mushrooms are lit up from the inside & along the ribbons of grass they are lit in an ethereal, magical manner.

The first image would be more simply split into layers than the image to the right, however I think the second image would create a more interesting layout as it creates the impression of looking up & out at something bigger. I also think there would be more scope to animate details, such as the background clouds, the petals & the details of foliage in the foreground.

Animation Practice Backgrounds

                       

These are selection of images I've collected as    references & inspiration for the animation practice background project. The image above, designed by Celine Choo, is a more simplistic style with little shadow & detail, however the layers in the image would be highly effective - but there may also be issues in details to animate.            

    The cityscape using warm colours is a more 

complicated design,  which would  be more 

complex to split into layers, but there would be

a lot of detail that would be possible to animate. 

For example the flags & materials hanging from

the buildings.

The Celine Choo landscape to the right is more complex than her previous design but the use of layers is less obvious, but again there are more details which would be easily animated.

The landscape to the left, by illustrator Fernando Juarez is one of my favourite illustrations due to the foreground image of the topsy turvy house sitting upon the tree top, with the red kite floating above it. The background layers would consistent of the water, the hills, the sky & the clouds - a detail which could be animated.




 

                       The illustration to the right, again, is a more  complex design which would be more difficult to split into layers, but the opportunity to animate areas is abundant due
to the use of waterfalls.

Animation Background - Pencil Outlines

                                                                  Beauty & the Beast

Hercules

Lady & the Tramp

                                                                       Pocahontas

This semester's drawing project is based on animation backgrounds, with the aim of creating several backgrounds for an animation in different ways. In order to understand what makes good backgrounds I've looked at a variety of images from Disney films interiors & exteriors, within rural & urban settings from animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com. I then simply drew the basic outlines of the background concentrating on the lines as opposed to the use of shading & colours. The most difficult of images to create was the Beauty & the Beast interior just due to the amount of lines & angles in the architecture of the building, but I did find the design very interesting due to seemingly gothic influence. I think the most effective of the drawings is the Lady & the Tramp backgrounds as there is a sense of depth of field.