ELEMENTS
WEEK 1 - CHARACTER DESIGN
We began week 1 by doing concept art and character design for our elements idea. I was still in a limbo about my project, whilst initially thinking to do water, more specifically water splash on a rainy day , I realised that the concept was too simple and not as challenging as id like it to be . I wanted to include and practise more dynamism so after creating a mind map of ideas and doing research I have decided to do the most dynamic of the elements : zero gravity . The concept is two individuals doing a free fall jump out of a plane . There is a split second shot of the camera that catches an obscure bird before returning to a fish eye lens of their friends in the free fall . To keep the the animation fairly simple Im going to use tools such as cinema 4d for backgrounds and after effects for perspective shots.
Character designs
My chatacter I wanted to keep simple and back and white . I will possibly use boiling effect with the textures as inspired by the school of life animation seen below (blue imagine) but otherwise the colour pallet will be kept black white and grey.
Design inspiration
Design inspiration
Background Designs
For the background design I will use textured brushes on photoshop and apply them as a texture on cinema 4D to a cylinder surface to replicate planet earth . I will then add the necessary clouds on post production.
Animatic v1
