Sea Project: Backgrounds

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Here are my final backgrounds for the sea project sea scape

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3d Enviroment Modelling

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Today i've been working on my Maya model, for Georg's 3d modelling project, (with both original images and progress images.)

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(last bit of Maya this year :) )

All animals, big and small

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After my tutorial with Adam Aiken, I made slight improvements to my Ident, including giving the fish slight movement and adding in slight ripples to the water, as well as the rock pool background. However im still unsure whether I want to add music to my piece or not. 

(I think I may add on one extra frame to the ident, so it finishes on a blank screen)

I also wanted to post my drawings from the drawing trip to Newquay zoo (focusing on quick and rough studies of there movements). 

(two of my favorite pictures from the trip)

 ^ Lemurs, Mongooses, Agouti's and Birds

^ Zebras, Wildebeasts and Waterbacks 

^ Capybaras, Meerkats, Peacocks and Lions

^ Penguins, Macaques and Warty Pigs. 

^ above is a quick sketch of a Zebra done on the cover of my sketchbook during the Animal Behaviour lecture.

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Backgrounds

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Here is my first colour test, (after taking over the background design from Hannah) for the beach scape in our sea stories project. 

-Although the girlies havent seen these test yets, my personal favourite colours are, 

the gradient yellow and orange sunrise (shown in image 1) and the bluey turquoise sea (present in the last image) and the rocks and beach in image 4.

And below is the rockpool background which will form part of the background on my ident. 

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Interior Animation Background

Lighting

For this part of the background brief we had to create an interior background that uses soft and key lighting.

My Final piece, edited on photoshop

Spot the difference in the perspective of the chair

pre photoshop final piece (Painted in watercolour)

A rough Colour design 

> A more detailed layout 

My rough layout

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Exterior Background

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Here is my exterior background for my Pirates project, for this part of the brief we had to use either a monochromatic, harmonious, complementary or an analagous with the use of complementry colour scheme.

above are my two main references for my colour scheme. 

rough layout, shaded layout and rough colored painting for my background. 

^ Above is my final layout for the final, followed by the unedited watercolour background 

My final piece uses an Analogous colour scheme with the use of black and brown, but in particular hues of yellow to give depth to the scene.

here is my final so far, it still needs editing in photoshop to add more depth to the background.

spot the diffrences 

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creating atmosphere using paint

Here is my background work so far.

  and here is a draft for my painted ones, im not sure if these will remain a draft or i will alter them on photoshop to create my final pieces.

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Pirate Backgrounds

As a continuation of our 2d backgrounds project we were asked to develop a exterior layout and an interior and exterior background from last terms storyboard project.

however neither my layouts or backgrounds are a straight adaption from the boards as I felt I have come on since then and wanted to show my progress.

above is my initial brainstorm and adaptions from the boards. 

below is my next three adaptions from the boards. 

^ this frame will become the exterior background focusing on showing depth through the use of colour, my plan is to use dark colours in the for ground blending into bright yellow hues, showing both depth and the glow from the blaze.

one of my contextual references for artists is the below piece of concept art from Pirates of the Carribean 

My second Background is an interior shot, focusing on how a soft key light and a secondary light create shadows. 

this task has proven more challenging than the others as i wasn't sure how to draw the inside of the boat, however I decided that as the task was to focus on lighting I would only have my main features illuminated therefore removing the need to show the structure of the boat rather just the cramp composition of the main props. 

the image below shows what areas will be illuminated and what will be in a shadow.

the last task is to create a exterior layout focusing on drawing the eye to a 3d space, below is my design for it, ready for neatening up and enlarging.

Background detectives from Rodger Rabbit to Morris the Midget Moose

2D Backgrounds For Animation 

For this project we've been learning about all aspects of designing backgrounds from conception to finished production.

 Our first task was to replicate in pencil  five different animation backgrounds of our choice.

1. From Who framed  Rodger Rabbit

(this one was my favourite one to draw, I loved adding in the little details on the buildings and dealing with the wacky perspective)

2. From Alice in Wonderland 

(simple yet effective the slightly curvy lines in the White Rabbits house and the topsy turvy decorations create a beautiful composition)

3. From Winnie the Pooh

( The colour tones in this landscape create a simple yet effective way of creating forced perspective)

4. From the 101 Dalmations

( one of my favourite films however im not sure I did this background justice as I found it very hard to show the perspective within the angular composistion)

5.  From Morris the Midget Moose

we then learnt about drawing from perspective something that I struggled with more than the most of the class.

Thanks for reading 

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there's more posts to come on this project