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Mixed Media Personal Project
- Watercolor, Charcoal and Digital
The goal was of this project was to try different styles for animation and finished look. Including traditional charcoal and water color, 2D VFX animation and a digital painterly look. You can find the finished project, a process video and pictures of the traditional work process below :
Full Animation
Process Video
The first section of charcoal is a held frame (with some editing on the colors) and for the second (the explosion part) I did some animation tests very roughly on my computer to see timing and spacing and then I printed that out for reference and drew all of them on paper.
For the watercolor I did the same process, animating it normally and then finishing it up at my light table on paper. Watercolor paper was harder to work with as I couldn't flip thick paper. I tried to be accurate and then I added the white lines digitally.
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Picture 1: Traditional works desk
Picture 2: Charcoal exploration
Picture 3: Charcoal sequence hanging on the wall to not accidentally smear them
Picture 4: Watercolor animation done in steps to make sure the paintings looked as consistent as possible
I learned a lot from this project. I chose to only animate and not color the second shot. I feel like I got everything I wanted out of this project, and continuing would be more about finishing up a production of a already established workflow, and not about style exploration. Since that was my focus for this I had no problem changing the scope of the project so I could do what I set out to and then go on to the next project.
Character design form Fortiche, hexcore model and rig by Nikita Vasilevykh, the rest is made by me.
And special thanks to Dmitry Sarkisov for great FX inspiration and Kip Apeland for running around with me obsession about light!
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