Reflection

ARTWORK

Struggles with colour work, getting to know what works and what doesn't . . . this illustration is pastel and coloured pencil all smudged together, in more detail than the storyboard. I know this detail is not necessary for animation production artwork, this is just attempting some concept artwork.

I like using watercolour paint because it gives quite a smooth finish to colour, but I get too involved in detail as I lean too close to the work and don't stand back enough.

I spend too long painting objects in detail, as in the Character Animation Lip Sync project . . . I intended the background to be simple and it ended up being too busy. And I spent too much time painting and judging by the grade, not enough time animating.

The Storyboard artwork worked better, using mixed media to achieve the look I wanted and viewing lots of storyboards on various websites trying to get the right amount of shots to tell the viewer what is going on. Using pastel and coloured pencils for all the girl and fish drawings, scanning in and using Photoshop to create all the water on multiple layers. Fusing the two together by making sure the outlines of the scanned images were blended into the backgrounds.