These are images from Gankutsuou which is one of the first animated series to use the moving pattern luma key thing. I haven't watched too much but it's an adaption of The Count of Monte Cristo which is pretty awesome. This show is why I'm not going to be using patterning in my backgrounds because it does and I while the hair and the cloths look pretty sweet with the patterning the backgrounds really make it so you're eye has nowhere to rest and it's a bit straining.
Honestly less patterning than I plan to use. but he backgrounds are a lot more calm, a bit more loosely colored as far as the background goes what with the bleeds and such. I still between Chowder and Gankutsuou I think I have a good bit of infulence as far as how the style is going to be treated.I'm still contemplating on how exactly I'm going to exactly work the backgrounds. I was thinking either layered drawn backgrounds with hard pencil or with a shitty pen 'cause good inking pens when I use them tend to look like poop. Or just digitally color them and since I think it'll need some sort of outline otherwise it'll seem like that episode of Ed, Edd, and Eddy where their outlines went away, and they melted.
I've just been having some problems with how to execute the background of this animation so I went looking for influence if there is anything that might be suggested please I'm a bit confused and stuck on this subject.
I have been, unsurprisingly, looking at Disney storyboards and background dev work. The pencil work is beautiful, the depth is amazing, and I think that with an overlay of digital colour (watercolour style in Painful or even PShop flats if your pencil tones are working hard enough), you could have some really fun, deep, but not overly labor intensive backgrounds.
ReplyDeleteAlso, get Joe to show you how he layers a shot for Robo. Hell, I can even show you if I get my first bg done, but he knows all the tricks.
Yeah I'm totally asking Joe on Thursday about the Atomic Robot backgrounds and how he composites them. I was just looking at that one anime 'cause Nelson told me about it and I really like chowder. Even in Oliver and Company they have the similar heavy pencil line in city buildings which I've been watching since New York is a good place for moving art and I can sing "Once upon a time in New York City" a lot.
ReplyDeleteI've watched almost all of Gankutsuou (most of the volumes were like 5 bucks at Suncoast) and I love and hate the patterns in it. It handled it in a more trippy manner then Chowder. But cool story line.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing how you handle patterns in your stuff.