Applied Animation: 12/01 Meeting

This morning, Me and Oscar (sadly Wing could not join us) sat down to have a look at the mood boards we had put together that considered potential styles for our animation, and we seem to have a similar idea about the aesthetic of the piece. We're aiming for simplistic line-work with not a great deal of detail (to make it easier for ourselves to animate), that is not particularly precise but instead is quite naive and playful.

My Mood board

We also briefly discussed the colour aspect of the animation. We don't particularly want to animate water colour,  but want to implement the water colour style digitally. Alternatively, we are thinking about having traditional watercolour backgrounds. Another thought we had was about whether we wanted the colour to be on the inside of the line work or surrounding it. We can't say for certain at this stage, but for the time being we are going to do a few material tests, and experiment with different photoshop brushes and programs to see what kind of watercolour effects we can create. We shall start talking visuals when we have collected responses to our questionnaire, which we refined in our previous meeting.

Thought of You - Ryan Woodward

I also showed Oscar "Thought of You" by Ryan Woodward. We had both seen it before, but I pointed it out because of the background choice. We're not wanting to have a plain white background, but instead a subtly textured/coloured one, and I thought this was a good example. I like how there is a subtle highlight on the ground to give the illusion of a surface.
I also brought this animation to our attentions because of how the woman in the piece materialises out of nothing and how she deconstructs. It was something we had briefly discussed yesterday, and was something we were considering doing with some of our visuals to transition from one interviewee to the next.