I decided to use inks and watercolours to create the backgrounds for my animation. I layered colours of the same hues on top of each other to create shadows and dimensions to be worked over in black ink later. I enjoyed the method of randomly layering colours and creating random scenery from the blurred outlines.
for my first concept art piece i decided to keep a rounded and blurred shape to the outline to create a sense of isolation for the character.
Because he's quite a silly and cute character I like how different the backgrounds look against his stature and bright colour. The juxtaposition is something that I've wanted to create for a long while. I enjoy how the mixed media challenges the concepts of aesthetic in animation as well as the texture that is brought up on the watercolour paper.
Here I experimented with creating a swamp-like scene with a river running through it. I used very watered down inks to create this foggy scenery. I plan on working over this background in photoshop in order to merge the two mediums together but still have them clash.
For the branches I decided to look at swamp scenes that have these draping and wet looking branches that hang down.
I want to keep the backgrounds simple but unique. I added some cartoon style mushrooms to connect the character with his surroundings so he didn't look too out of place.
I created a lot of washes to be used for the character's close up shots. I stuck to the same colour scheme but watered them down quite a bit. for the head shots, I want to impose the character's faces onto the scenes so create a jarring visual.
Here, I started to re-create my initial swamp sketch by adding more colour and depth to it. I kept more to the brown side of things plainly because I don't want my character to be washed out by the green backgrounds. When I scanned the image in however, the colours were a lot lighter than I anticipated so I worked over the top with darker shades.
I want this to be used as my opening title for the short, so my next step is to re-work over the top using black ink and then re-work over that in photoshop.
Here I created a rock and the bank that the character is going to be sitting on, staring at his love interest. My idea is to layer these together to create a shot where the character looks at his reflection in the swampy water.
This painting is what I want to use as the swamp water. I feel like the colour of the swamp is heavily influenced by my research and mood boards.
I created this piece to work over the top as a little flower bush. I also want this image to double up as the characters bouquet of flowers that he finds.
I did some more orange based swatches to be used in close ups.
I decided to use lighter colours for this background as it is when the main character is staring longingly at his love interest, so I want the colours to match the mood. I also want the shot to be central. I came up with the idea of having lovely and light music playing for this moment. I also want a sort of glittery kind of effect around her in order to portray the instant love my frog character feels for his love interest.
Overall I am happy with how my backgrounds have turned out, hopefully when I work over them they will become a lot more clear as to what they are, instead of looking like watery swampy messes.
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