What I really want to work with in a close future is the artistic stuff in this industry, backgrounds, designs, props etc. I choose to make the "Batman Layout" assignment in watercolour. Art deco style. I thought would fit to the batman-Gotham city universe. The assignment is all about the characters. The background should always support the character in action, not the other way around. If this would be used in a movie, we would only see parts of the background layout and not the whole picture as one piece.
Right now, I'm in school at a sunday(!) and cleaning up this animation. Feels soo nice to be alone here for once... The character is Roxanne from a Goofy Movie. I love her flowy, round 40s style animation construction.(Reminds me of the centaurs from fantasia 1940 )This assignment went well. I am really fascinated with how stuff always is moving flowy, in arcs, like everything in nature on the earth... Rounded, like shells. For the first time in this school i started to enjoy making assignments like those , And because i felt encouraged this turned out well. When your naming and making art technical like in animation (techniques, time charge, planning) I could not follow this so i thought that I was really bad at this. No, I just had to find my own work flow, like most off us in my fantastic animation class. For me, artistic work turn out good, or bad, I can't know before it's done: Depends on mood, creativity and so on. In this industry we have to learn to be creative on order, during time pressure.
Rough planning:
Touch up:
My ref:
Gonna post a clean version, maybe invetweened and coloured in a while! *
Arcs science!!! :)
(How I plan animation,..also a screencap of lightable function in TvPaint program)
Had this idea in mind for a long time, since 2010 I think when I was listening to Gaga's The fame monster album. I always made fast doodles and sketches off ideas, but it's not often I have the patience to continue with it.
Inspired:
(Don't call my name, don't call my name, Alejandro)
Very nice colours in the vodoo scene from Princess and the frog
