So, this has been one of my main tasks this weekend. This is sort of a mini-montage within the story that presents the domino effect of high fiving... one act of kindness leads to another! This will be presented in a slideshow format, and I hope to give this part a vintage look through the wonders of AfterEffects. So, these will all be stills, and not actually animated in the final film. There are two more finished drawings, and one more I still have to crank out.
You may notice that I chose to ditch the black lines, and went for a more mask-like, UPA style of drawing. (
Here's a link to the Wikipedia article about UPA, for those who are unfamiliar.) It actually felt pretty relieving to work in a different style, and maybe down the road, I'd love to animate something with this sort of aesthetic.
Here's some more UPA-style images, that better represent the influence on this sequence.
Cool!
ReplyDeleteCertainly looks like UPA. That's a good style for the sequence, since it looks similar enough to yours, but is different enough to signal that we've gone 'someplace else'.
I like the solid colors for the backgrounds, but it might be a good idea to find some sort of paintbrush or watercolor texture to slap on top of it, kind of like in your first reference image. When you have a bright background next to a grey 'floor', it can sometimes look like the background is actually in front of the floor, and a texture can help keep that from happening.
Nice choice, Tom! I agree that some texture may help the floor. In fact, you may want to use a color other than grey for the floor, since UPA was always creative in their color choices (such as in the example you gave us with the blue floor with texture.) Beautiful work!
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