Thursday, 5 February 2009

Backgrounds

Today I plan to add the backgrounds and sound to complete my first sequence. As I have previously unsuccessfully attempted to blend the figures against Blake's paintings, I have decided to create my own. I wanted these to fit with the paintings whilst being quite plain as I found that using Blake's artwork was too busy and distracted from the animated figures. 

I have used watercolour to create backgrounds inspired by Blake's work. I particularly like the flames and plan to put these behind the tormented figures as shown below.  


Originally I planned to start the sequence on a lighter background wash (see angels above) and have this become darker, however when I put this together in the animation it just became disjointed. Now I have decided to use only the darker wash and alter the brightness/contrast of this between key frames in After Effects.


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