Colour Tree

Bambi has been recently playing about with colour bleeding and ink staining to try and get used to the way it flows and works.  She's going to be doing all the fancy After Effects trickery with colour in post so all the research she does now will pay off for when that part comes around.  

So, we have this one stunning scene we're very excited about getting in the animation.  It's with the kids in the playground and they're on a roundabout under this big, white cherry blossom tree.  As they spin the colour bleeds from the boy and cascades upwards into the leaves of the tree turning them pink.  Bambi's been playing about with some colour and concept art for the tree and came up with a really cool drawing:

I am so excited for this scene, it's going to be absolutely stunning.  We'll hopefully get more colour concepts up soon!

- Lynne

Inspiration Boards

Sooooo I'm going to inundate you with all of our moodboards to date.  There's a lot on colour, ink, character influence, general influence, environment influence and overall styles we like.  We've made a massive moodboard for our wall which incorporates most of these, and I've filled my sketchbooks with all the characters we like too.  It's all slowly coming together!

- Lynne

Colour Test 01

Our FIRST day we decided to start playing around with bleeding ink, dripping it into water and onto paper.  It was terrible.  Nothing had the effect we wanted and we made quite a mess.  Real colour testing will be happening quite soon I imagine, but I thought I would post up the first attempt from my sketchbook to show how terribly we failed that first day.  The whole think looks like blood and not much else.  Not what we want.

- Lynne

Environment Concepts 01

Here we've got some of our resident 2D environmental artist's first concept work for our animation!  Susan's been working on a lot of very different potential designs for the 2D environment (the environment in the washing machine world).  We haven't been making it easy for her tbh with the story changing every other day from war themes to infection stories to happy nice tales of a little boy playing in a playground.  She's also been doing some early colour work, playing about with reds bleeding into pinks, which are looking very, very nice.  We've got a lot of colour experimentation ahead of us so it's good to get started on it now I suppose.

Again, comments and suggestions are more than welcome!

- Lynne