Major Project: Preproduction

Stylistic choices

Although that my story is based on Scottish mythology the style of the animation is influence by a few things too.

My main inspirations include:

Song of the Sea (byTomm Moor, 2014)
(Song of the Sea Trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jxc7WkC674
 

Secret of Kells (by Tomm Moore & Nora Twome, 2009) 
(Secret of Kells Trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2_HZTuQBE 

 

The Reward (by Suncreature Studio: Mikkel Mainz Elkjær, Bo Juhl Nielsen and Kenneth Ladekjær)
 (Watch full film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cw7aAFS5oc)

Some art choices I liked for my film vary, check out my pin board on pintrest for a glimpse of the mood i wanted orginally for my film: Here

Some notable artists whose style inspired my include : 

IniquitousFish (Meredith McClaren)

I love how you can get a sense of motion form these characters, i also how simple but effective the colours are, especially in fig 2.

Fig 1

Fig 3

Fig 2

 Alvaro Ramirez 

Macka the Red Witch

I love the loose lines on this drawing and you can almost see the transformation it Macka can make into the owl

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The Reward:

Tehre are some comedic scenes in the animation where the characters become superdetailed, I wanted to have a similar thing with my animation too- to keep it light-hearted.

Here is my character and his more detailed state - note i am not 100% definatly using the detail version as it will be very time consuming.

 Secret of Kells Inspirations :

 I really loved the texture of the trees and flower, I did have a forest secene in my film but it has now been cut.  this is the kind of style I would of been going for.


 Song of the Sea inspirations:  

Agian I really liked the tratditional fee of the film and the textures of the backgrounds. here are are some concepts of backgrounds i made regarding Song of the Sea and Secret of Kells.

Forest with Glowing orbs (Photograph, digitally editted)

Concept Interior Background (Mixed Media)