RESEARCH & REFERENCE

AESTHETIC REFERENCE

The world I want to create for my animation involves creating large scale buildings much like Bladerunner, but close up it is more bleak and colourless. These photos represent it well by being slightly derelict with dusty fans and pipes everywhere. I will incorporate this into my final animation.

ROTOSCOPE REFERENCE VIDEOS

In correlation with my storyboard, I have framed up some videos to use as reference for my animation so I am aware of the space I have on the screen. As I intend to rotoscope some scenes, I can use these and animate over them in TV Paint. This will work effectively because it will transfer the movement nicely. A challenge of this with my protagonist is that its legs don't have the same angles as a persons. By using it more as a reference than for rotoscoping at times will be done.

These videos represent elements of production pipeline within animation and are also stunning works. In the videos you can see the accuracy of camera movement in the animatics. The second video in particular was striking to me because colour is a big motif in the film. I hope to adopt this by using signature colours in my animation.

YouTube. (2019). LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS | Inside the Animation: Zima Blue | Netflix. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMcZ7_MeAjA [Accessed 8 May 2019].

YouTube. (2019). LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS | Inside the Animation: The Witness | Netflix. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhXDb69wl4 [Accessed 8 May 2019].

The use of colour in the animated Spiderman film is also impressive. Some of the cityscape backdrops are also inspirational for the world I am creating.