Telling Tales: Week 6

When considering the colour panel and the choice of the brush in the Photoshop, I tried out several different brushes, and discovered that the pencil tool among the brushes can do the best to remain the hand-made feel of the digital animated part of the animation, which works well with the water coloured background as well. Therefore, I used it for animating the characters and several other scenes on top of the background and the moving whales, which is the effect I wanted to create for the final outcome though the animatic was done in just black and white with simple lines.

Taking the references from children’s story books, I found that water colour would create a smooth and comfortable effect which matches the narrative of the animation, which is a girl’s imagination of herself turning back to childhood. The animation will not contain any dialogues, but just background music and sound effects, which in the animatic I’ve made, is just a single piece of music playing along, so it would be considered as the graphic of the animation has been finished. So at this stage, I started from creating the digital animated character in Photoshop, these is one of the examples rendered into a gif.