Work in progress: a rough concept working form one of the concept thumbnails of nebulas.
I'm quite happy with the direction the project is going so its time to start developing a way of creating this look in the computer. The desired result will be a slow moving nebula made up of cloud like mass light up by lights.
The task of creating this digitally will go over to Alister the projects look developer, simulation artist, renderer, composited and general technical artist. To help Alister create the movement for this nebula I've annotated this concept piece with arrows showing the direction of the nebulas movement. This is concept piece based off a possible end shot from the storyboards. This concept contains colour which will appear from the centre and move outwards as at this point in the story the two characters have created new colours.
The next look development concept test I wanted to complete was to understand how Blu would look inside the environment. I think he sits well in the environment, standing out enough but not out of place.
This was also a chance to test the lighting of the scene which needs to be established so that the method to create the lighting can be explored. The light will come form the nebula like clouds which form the stage for the characters to interact on and with. So as in the picture much of the light will be underfloor lighting. The girl also produces light so doesn't cast shadows herself but causes Blu to throw shadows himself. This is a far more successful test. There is a little colour so it is not black and white but they are muted enough to make the blue of the Hippogriff stand out. What also works well is the girl. She site well in the environment looking at home but also noticeable. A potential problem with the cloud environment was that it was very white and would have meant the girl would have been hard to distinguish from the clouds.
From the rough sketch of the girl looking up at the stars I started a rough colour test in photoshop to start exploring the idea with stronger images- other than lines of a quick sketch. The one below isn't working well for me. I was working with paper/ parchment like colours but I find them too strong and don't suite the celestial context.
This is some more concept development for the flower. I chose a crocus as they are flowers which come out in the spring often even when there is still snow. I felt this complimented the purpose for eh flower which is to signal new life. also the crocus flower producers the spice saffron which is a vibrant yellow/orange colour so fits with the girl's colours and the violet blue petals compliments the Hippogriff.
After completing the thumbnail sketches and starting on the storyboards I decide to develop some sketches into coloured concepts to gain a sense of atmosphere and light. I wanted the environment to feel ethereal so explored how that might be achieved through colour and light. |
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