A Team of three Animation Students at the University of the West of England.
Firefly, an insight into a made up forest, where there are great trees hosting all kinds of strange plants & creatures. This 2D Traditional Animation follows these creatures as they discover how to make fireflies by using splashes.
So I do believe its nearly time to celebrate! All of the colouring has been completed (as far as we know)!! And let me tell you, that is cause for celebration.
We are very nearly there, and I'm excited about it being complete.
Just double-checked the colour on this one, nevertheless, if something looks a bit odd or you've got other ideas, just comment on them here / send me an email. Sarah - If you want to change the font for the production bible, I can send the photoshop file to you :)
Thats not the final backround, by the way! I'm about halfway through it, I think, at the moment, I'll post the backgrounds as they get finished.
Just wondering whether it might be worth going closer to our 'red panda' and give out that kind of colouring a go. I kinda like it, but thats probably just cause I coloured it ha ha I think the green moss thing is going to be scrapped due to continuity problems. I do quite like Robyns idea about having them 'tribal'. So maybe mess around with some very simple shapes on the face/tail. Nothing complicated :)
These are some of the colour concepts that are getting thrown around the idea plane at the moment. We decided that the original design's continuity would be too difficult due to some complicated movements made by the creature. This is experimenting with the idea of 'Tribal'.
Quick (obviously unfiinshed) colour test for the tree root's shadows / vine test. I like the lattice effect idea, but I think we might have to be a bit careful/ tone it down a tad, in terms of colour, otherwise it's going to be a mass of high-contrast all around the roots/tree, and it'll be really distracting. Otherwise, v. cool :)
Okay, so if the fireflies/light-liquid needs to fall a bit more, we can make the roots taller? but we'd also need to make the liquid/puddles a bit more reflective, for that to register, like so ^^^^
tell me what you think :3
EDIT: forgot, to mention, got some more stuff ideas/ just getting it ready, see you tommorow!
So I have done some work, sorry about the crappy quality, but I just wanted you guys to see the storyboard now. So we can edit it on monday.
Hope you like
This is a design I really like, its a mixture between a red panda and Becky's drawing. I think its really cute :P
here's some designs I've done so far. These were before our meeting today so I know that I have alot of work to do! Will get on doing some more refined designs! Anyway, these are numbered incase you like any so I can work from them.