Applied Animation: Style/ Aesthetic Mood Boards

In preparation for Monday's session, Katy and I went ahead and created a few mood boards that express what kind of style we are interested in exploring. Although we know we want to use watercolours we hadn't actually discussed how we wanted to use the watercolours or what we wanted to create with them. Taking a step back from what we already, we thought about different styles and techniques of watercolours and put together a varied selection of what we would like to explore during material testing.

Styles for backgrounds

Styles for characters

I focused upon creating a mood board for both characters and environments, as I feel that it may help to use a slightly different style for the characters to help them stand out more, however, I also wanted to explore different ways in which texture could be created for the characters using the medium. This isn't necessarily something we want to create for the backgrounds, as we don't want to draw attention away from the characters. 

For the environments I focused on looking for methods that created simple, slightly textured effects but that were still appealing and interesting to look at. I also wanted to find examples of depth created with this medium and found that a lot of paintings tended to blur the trees that were in the background or make the colours lighter and less obvious. This is definitely something that we should look at, as it help to give depth and perspective to our environments and help to make them appear less flat. 

For the characters I wanted to primarily focus on how to create interesting textures. Personally I want the audience to be aware that watercolours are being used so I searched for images that used the medium in a messy, unstructured way. I really like the idea of using a range of colours and letting them blend together to create a texture that somewhat resembles fur. 

Whilst I was looking at colours and textures Katy was looking at a more basic use of the materials and explored how the materials work and what they look visually and suggested what they could be used for. 

Katy's Mood Board

I really like what Katy has been looking at and I feel that we have a really good ground to start our material tests with.