Hey there Ricketeers! Haven't made a post on the animation in awhile. Frankly, I haven't really been working on it, but I just started rewriting the script and I've started to dabble in background design! I tried five different approaches and put Stumbles in to see how it would look with the flash characters.
I started with pen. I like these shading effects and it has a stark black and white look, but it just makes the characters look out of place.
Then I went with charcoal, which I love as a medium. It's easy and messy and has that nice dirty effect.
Ten I tried some grayscale markers, which have a nice look, but either I need bigger markers or I should fill it in areas in photoshop, which I think kind of defeats the purpose.
I just found a watercolor kit, so I figured I would try it out. Granted this is my first real watercolor piece since probably High school and I only have one brush, and I need to do it on better paper, but I really like the strokes it creates. Stumbles seems to fit in nicely.
Finally, this is a version I did in photoshop. It's easiest to do lighting effects in this medium when you have layers and apple Z, and Stumbles definitely fits in the best hear, but I don't feel like the background has enough life as it could have. I'll have to do more experimenting.
What do you all think? Which version is your favorite? What works and what doesn't? Thoughts? Opinions?
You could try a composite of the photoshop version with a combo of the grayscale markers and the charcoal. Set it up in PS and just work the layer oppacity/setting and see what jumps off. I like the solidness of the photoshop version but the textures in the charcoal and the markers are more suggestive of the era you're trying to invoke.
ReplyDeleteGud luck mang