Tuesday 10 November 2009

inspiration and environment speak

saw this in its animation stages when i was fortunate enough to be at Blue Zoo this summer and its nice to see it all finished. This piece confirmed to me (on top of my other inspirations) that stylized was THE way to go as the world is constructed out of paper and woolen elements. The piece is fun and colourful for children and the world carefully constructed which holds interest from multiple angles.





i love the colours used in this night shot...we've got to include some beautiful lighting like this in ours guys! maybe if the sellotape part is at night or eve/dusk?

In other matters....

after sending Mu Li an updated script he came back to me with a colour concept. Its interesting to see the environment in colour as it has much greater impact on you and send through immediate messages than just seeing things as pencil sketches. My main concern with Mu's drawing was that it instantly screamed summer to me and required more autumnal colour to represent the setting for our story. A main contributor to this was the sunflowers he'd included for Hero's flower pot which i've asked him to change to something else. There's an interesting use of staging occurring though which i'm liking with definite set ups of Machos plot in the garden and Heros patch and an almost heavenly light ascending downward to where Lady Gnome will be amongst the scene.

Mu Li's colour concept for the environment:

1 comment:

  1. Really weird mix of 2D + 3D styles. Nice though.
    I really like the grass in the second screencap, might be worth considering having something like that in the performance area of the set and JB's longer dynamic grass as a background element. I REALLY like the clouds in the night shot and i like the idea of having the sellotape section at dusk, with a similar lighting setup to what you've shown here.

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