Thanks to my mum for sorting the location out in this instance! Luckily the community centre had a corridor next to the main room, which was perfect for this shot. I could have shot it in the main hall, but because shooting in an actual corridor would provide for a better reference when it came to drawing the background, I opted to shoot it there.
…so I went with that. The background took a fair amount of work for this one, so I’ll add in a few pics of the process it went through. The first version was quite faithful to the actual corridor:
Oh yeah, and if you’re not familiar with my way of working, I tend to do all my backgrounds with whacky colours when I’m creating the mattes in Photoshop. This is so each panel is clear and so I know what’s what for when I finish them off in TVPaint. And also so that the colours aren’t too similar to final colour palette, or I’ll be lost when I’m designing it.
Despite being very similar to the corridor I filmed in, the background just did not look right. It irked me for the longest time, before deciding it needed some tough love and re-doing altogether. So I went back to drawing board and sketched out a version I much preferred:
And here’s what it looked like in ‘neat’, before finalising it:
And the final background image:
I’m so pleased I went through this process and didn’t settle for something I wasn’t happy with and that didn’t look very good. The finished background is one I’m actually pretty proud of, because perspective shots like this are not easy! Or at least not for me anyway… And I love the aesthetic of it.
It’s actually been quite fun revisiting these shots from my film and digging out a few behind the scenes bits to show on here. It’s also been quite inspiring for me- I’ve not animated now for almost a full year and coming back to this project has really got that side of my brain excited again. I am still keeping very creative- I’ve been doing a lot more ‘art’ in the more traditional sense of late (I’ll likely stick some of that in here at some point), plus working on a really cool crochet garment I’m pretty hyped about, but there’s nowt like just sitting and animating is there?!
In terms of animation, I have though been busy working on my feature treatment/ pitch deck these last few months, as I expect I’ve already alluded to several times in this blog, though unfortunately that is on hold for the time being due to personal circumstances. So once I’m ready to get to work on that again, I’m sure test shots/ storyboarding images will come flooding out of me. That’s kind of a weird way of putting it, but whatevs!
And lastly, I have 2 BIG screening announcements to make regarding my film, so as soon as the embargo has been lifted on those, you will be first to hear!! Exciting times ahead… xo
ps. apologies if the grammar etc is all over the place in this one. I'm tired af because slept terribly last night, but wanted to get this post out today regardless
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