Applied Animation: Competition - Background Concepts

Applied Animation

Backgrounds and Background Concepts

• This week:
• I started working on the backgrounds, based upon our initial concepts and produced an animatic for the Leeds Commute storyboard
• What went well:
• I experimented a lot with how the backgrounds should look, as it was extremely difficult with such a limited palette and making sure the characters don't blend in with it. Therefore, before finalising the backgrounds, I made some quick concepts:

• I additionally made the animatic for the Leeds Commute narrative, which I found fun and easy to time, because of the storyboards. I was able to almost key-frame it, so that will make the animation process easier.
• What could be improved:
• After receiving feedback from the group, one thing that was noted was making the background a bit more refined and less rough. So, I went back over the background I had produced originally and refined it more, then created the seat view, which I will also be refining.
• Adding some buildings off in the distance in the background, so I added very faint shapes of buildings.
• Next week:
• I'll be finishing the backgrounds, for the final narrative, which is the Brighton/Monkey creature narrative (Storyboard 3). 
• Refining the backgrounds for the train commute.

Here is the initial background I produced, before feedback:

Here is the more refined version:

Seat view I'll be refining for next week: