Concept Art/Storyboard Panels Development 01...

After speaking with Phil on Monday, we decided it was full steam ahead and my target is to produce an animatic by Monday. In preparation for developing my animatic, i sought after plenty of reference images for cinematic and photographic compositions i could use in the narrative of my environment design. Using these images, my silhouettes, and other reference images, i am layering everything in Photoshop to begin to consider how my town/world might look, thinking particularly about the types of shots i will be using in the piece. Here's some early progress images of the work i've produced so far...

The first panel represents a lovely shot i've seen in the trailer for 'One Night in One City', a Czech animation by Jan Balej. This shot begins with a window open in the distance with curtains flailing from the wind. The camera would slowly zoom in and begin to reveal the environment outside of the window as we get closer. The second panel focuses on perspective and will capitalise on the long and narrow street scenes i aim to model. Panel three represents a rooftop shot and the camera will pass through foreground elements like the chimneys, to create a filmic effect. These are just ways of visualising the shots i have in my head, contemplating what works and what doesn't, before i start to produce my animatic...