I decided to do some visual research into the concept artwork for the Laika Studios film, Paranorman. A lot of the concept art that I focused on was by the artist Heidi Smith. I was attracted to her artwork because of how rough and dark they were, and the appearance was the style that I was aiming for.
When designing my character, I didn't do research into reference photos or artists, which is what I do usually. Because this is my first hand-drawn animation that I created, I felt like I wanted to use my own style. However, I think in the future I will prefer to research into images to work off, but applying my own style.
From this research, I developed the style of my animation by deciding to keep my style rough, and dark. At this point however, I am still unsure whether I am going to use colour in my final animation.
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