CINEMATIC :: 24/06/16 - Finalizing and Finishing Up

Its been over two weeks since I last updated, and I unfortunately can't say I've been up to anything different outside of mattepainting the backgrounds.  I've had quite a few external issues that slowed my progress, and I was struggling to keep on top of these backgrounds and work on assignments for the other classes, but overall, the past two weeks have proven to be enough in terms of completing the mattepainted scenery for our final animation!

I realize my efforts seem quite minimal compared to the contributions from the rest of the group.  Still, working on all these backgrounds really gave me a feel for painting scenery in general, and encouraged me to try out a lot of new techniques and brushes and it was a good experience overall, minus the looming deadlines.

There are 10 background plates in all, and Tea ended up helping me with the last two shots - I couldn't figure out how to angle the islands for the intense low and dutch angle shots, and she ended up sketching the positions for shot 8 and giving me a really rough paint of shot 9 to clean up.  A lot of shot 9 is reused assets, just warped, in order to save time.  I would like to think that it doesn't show unless you were specifically looking for it.

Here are all the final plates for our assignment hand in, and the shots that they are used in!  Some of them like the complete dark world and a giant version of the dark world's tree weren't used in the final production, but pieces of them such as the islands and bits of the tree branches will be used for other shots.

SPIRIT SHOT 01 - Establishing Spirit Shot:

SPIRIT SHOT 03 - Low angle Islands:

SPIRIT SHOT 04 - Birds eye of Islands:

SPIRIT SHOT 05 - Close up of the Spirit Tree:

SPIRIT SHOT 06 - Low Angle Phone Shot:

DARK SHOT 07 - Extreme close up of Tree branches:

DARK SHOT 08 - Low Angle Dark Island:

DARK SHOT 09 - Dutch Angle of Island:

ASSET 01 - The complete Dark World:

ASSET 02 - The Dark World Spirit Tree: