The Background: Rough Sketches

Adaptation of Pandora style

"Character Design: Sketches, Scenes, Figures etc.

The Girl


Figures (Stereotypes)

Cut Scenes

"Research: Images for Character Design"

No Face ~ Spirited Away

Images we could use for the dark figures around the character. I think is simple and would be easy to animate.

"Research: Browsing for Background Design"

Ideal background design:
So here are some few images that we could use to help us get an idea for the background layout. I like the whole isolation of the rock in the middle. I was thinking we could create our own adaptation of this. It would suit the flying scene. We would have the cage on the centre of this rock and the clouds around it. What do you think?

 

More images to feed our mind:

 

 

"Today's Meeting: Finalising Storyboard"

Recap:

Just thought I'd blog today's meeting on Yellow Balloon. So as planned we've managed to draw out our final storyboard, although it's still slightly rough. We have put everything in together and happy to call it a day. As for now, we will continue to work on the character designs and background layouts, all should be cleared by next week. Hope everything goes as planned.

"Reasearch: Short Animations/Inspirations"

Joanna Quinn

Here are a number of short films by Joanna Quinn. We could use her style to give us some ideas of what sort of animation we could go for. I personally like the whole etchy style, faded colours and how the characters were drawn. Amazing!

Dreams and Desires Family Ties

 

Britannia

 

Elles

"Research: Browsing for Character Design"

Rebecca Barbucia's first suggestion to Egon Schiele Style. 

I personally admire Egon Schiele style of art. I find it fascinating how these nude figures portrayed loneliness, emptiness and melancholy rather than being fulfilled by sexuality. 

"He is mere skin and bone, not yet fully there as a person. He has outlined his body with a glowing line of white to indicate to us both his sense of imprisonment and his limitations: notice how his arm disappears almost at the elbow-- yet paradoxically it also suggests growth and potential. He is an unhappy, scrawny youth, the wild and exaggerated expanse of pubic hair perhaps indicating the center of his unhappiness. It may seem too individualistic a view, yet in his hysterical way he is expressing the fears and doubts of many young people. He is wonderful, unsettling, and strangely innocent."

 

I would like to make my own adaptation using Schiele's style and embed it together with my character from Yellow Balloon. It's exactly the style I had in my mind when I was visualising the story in my head.