Animation, comp tests, the usual stuff

Lately, I completed a few shots for The Magpie and test composited them. Here are the results:

And here are a few other shots I've been working on:

Here's a composition test for the opening shot. The camera movements aren't prefect yet, but the technique seems to produce something quite nice. Note the layered movement of the clouds in the background!

Animation Update

Composition development

In between animation, I've been supervising Jake's 3D work. One issue that was raised was the look of the park, an area Jake's still working on, and so we looked for relevant autumnal scenes to draw inspiration from. The picture below was a strikingly appropriate example, complete with bench and usable colour palette:

I took the main colours from this picture, and started plotting out how things in the park should look in terms of colour, tone and composition. The picture I'm particularly pleased with is this one:

As you can see, the colours are much more washed out than in the source image, and as the camera angle only consists of things in the mid-to-far background, the purple-ish mist is much more dominant. It looks suitably autumnal, though, and as long as I can get a bit more oranges and yellows into the shots, presumably when things are meant to be nearer the camera, things won't be too purple overall.

The Twinings' adverts have provided some inspiration, come to think of it...