Background Test

Colour Of Night Time Scenes

Photoshop Practice

Heres just a play around i did using a technique used by quite alot ( surprisingly) concept artists. Using a photo to manipulate and transform it into something new. I cant take credit for the photo but its just practice

"Escuridao Decente" The Build Up.

Its been a while since ive done an update on the project. So ill do a few posts to show were the project is and the plan ahead :) At the moment me and Tom are collaborating together to build up a large sum of work including tests, layouts, colour-boards, and other bits and pieces to be available to the team which will be formed early February. Aswell as perfecting the style and bringing together finalisation of the characters and animatic. At the moment the work load is tough but rewarding, as we look back each week with a sizable amount of work to show. We also have Grethe who is keen on being our main colourist. Finalising the look of the backgrounds at the moment is being tricky and until that is done its hard to deliver work to people, but by next week we should be locked and loaded to go full steam ahead with the project

Down below is our schedule for the shortened version of the story. At first glance this looks like an insane amount of work, however we know how much we can get done if we really go for it.

Were hoping to get (more like praying) atleast two more animators to work closely with us so we can pull this off nicely. Well additionally anyone would be great, since there is so much that needs to be done which i could do myself but since im dedicated to finishing the layouts and backgrounds I don't much time to do them.


This is our progress update sheet were we can see how many per scene, what's essential, how difficult each one is, what happens in the shot etc.

Its very useful to keep track of the project and see how much we have done in the past week or so.

I redesigned the boat to be more suitable for the events that occur and look more interesting as a whole

We took the design further and decided since the storyboard drawing were out of scale with the enviroments and the whole film revolves around the boat, it would we wise to make some sort of reference to keep our scale and perpective right to the shots. So we got Jake to create a 3D model using my sketch.

Jake did a great job of recreating the boat in 3D and it's really cool seeing the translation from 2D to 3D. So using the boat ive begun creating the layouts to give to the animators




Ive done quite a few layouts so far and ill upload a few more later on to show the progress.

Here is a quick colourboard I made to get a grips of the colour and mood for each scene. It had a nice arc from light to dark to light. I will be creating a proper colour board later using a colour palette which ive put together.


Here is the "Old Man" redesigns to fits Tom's animation and drawing style. He has a more stylised look this time round which makes him more interesting. The top turn around is a more finalised line drawing of the "Old Man" were as the bottom one is a rough skeleton sketch for me to use in the layouts and rough animation to make it easier for the line cleaners to draw.

Heres a few animation tests that Tom did. We did these tests not just for animation but to test the various styles we keep juggling around into motion.

This one is simple line test to see his body movement.

Using TVP, Tom painted this shot, giving a nice washy feel to it

Curious about seeing the old man in a waltz with bashir style i coloured a test Tom did a while back. It works well but were not sure if the style fits the eerie and dark tone of the film.

Whilst Tom did some animation tests i started doing the flashback scene, were a compilation of quick images get flashes for a very short amount of time. Ive probably put to much thought into these since there in for such a small amount of time, but its great practice to find the right background style to fit the animation itself. A few of these will proberly have a small aspect of animation in them, such as the helicopter scene will have the helicopters flying over and the background will flash as if there was a battle going on. Some of them are not as complete as others but it just to show this is the way were leading the film..

So thats pretty much were we are. I'm currently trying to dish out the layouts out asap for when more people get involved and Toms going through them as quickly as i'm making them, so yeah all good. But we have a long wayyyy to go.