An Adaptation of Cats the Musical...

Below are some wonderful design ideas and reference images for an Adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. There's a lot of expressionistic influence going on in some of these, and some of the camera angles in the thumbnails are extremely cinematic and theatrical. The black and white images that look like woodcut, are actually done by 'painting' onto black cardboard with white tippex...

'1884' by Terry Gilliam... An Animation Test...

I love the style and camera movement of the opening shot in this clip. The buildings look very flat and heavily stylised, and the layers work really well alongside the camera movement. I think it's the camera angle and movement that makes this shot really work though, and this is something i will be looking to capitalise on in my own environment design...

Experimentation... Extracting Shapes from Silhouettes #2

Here's some more shapes i've extracted from this evenings set of silhouettes...

Experimentation... Silhouettes #2

Here's the second round of experimenting with silhouettes, from this evening...

Experimentation... Alchemy

I decided to get stuck into Alchemy today, in particular using mic shapes to see what kind of shapes it would produce based on the amplitude of my voice. Whilst using the graphics tablet to draw, i was whistling into the microphone of my laptop to see what kind of an effect it would have. These are the results of this technique...

Next on the agenda is to try reciting sections of the poem from the Pied Piper, as well as repeating and emphasising on certain words to see what the results are...

Experimentation... Extracting Shapes from Silhouettes...

So i've taken last night's silhouettes and extracted the shapes, putting them onto a white background, and here's the results...

I'm going to continue producing some silhouettes tonight and i'll also look into combining some of these shapes together...

Experimentation... Silhouettes

So i decided to have a go at making some silhouettes today. Using a spotlight and some boxes, i was able to start experimenting with different shapes and silhouettes. I've selected a few of the better shapes, and i'm going to gather some more boxes and objects tomorrow so i can continue with this process...

As you can see, the setup isn't too high-tech either...

Expressionist Reference Images...

Here are some more beautifully cinematic and theatrical examples of expressionism...