Little Boy Coloured

Here's the final colouring for the little Boy in our film! There's not much difference between the reds, they're very subtle... BUT it still took me ALL of last night and this morning to finalise though. Getting too pernickety for my own good.

Got our first scene coloured this weekend too, many thanks to my colouring assistant/flatmate Jenny for sorting that out for my today whilst I was at work!  Will get it to our comper Bambi tomorrow and should HOPEFULLY have our first scene FINALISED!!!  WOOO!

The end is in sight people!

x L

Street View

Staying with the whole Dr. Seuss vibe, and the fact that the 2D animation is now taking place in the mind of the little girl, we've decided to make the street more organic and bendy and curvy and very, very childlike.  Suba's drew out this street view today as an example of the new, curvaceous environment and how it affects the buildings, etc.

During the group meeting we had today we also thought it would be cool to have the backgrounds quite plain to begin with, and as the colour spreads through the environment it will add detail, such as brick work in the walls or leaves on the trees.  Kat Bambi is playing around with all the AE colour bleeding so hopefully she'll get back to us as to whether this will be possible or not.  Think she's going to be filming colour tests for our intro sequence tomorrow so we'll maybe have some of her stuff to put up soon.

Exciting!

- Lynne

Bruce Block Graphs

While the gang and I were working out the staging for the storyboards last week we worked quite closely with my notes from the Dublin Bruce Block experience.  Trying to get deep space and flat space and such things into the scene took a bit of getting your head around, so to make things easier Jamie Bell took the time to work out some Bruce Block graphs of story vs. depth and story vs. colour:

When you actually lay it out on paper and see where the intensity of a story needs to be build, it becomes so much easier to work his teachings into the frame.  Highly recommended practice for all animations.

- Lynne

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