As you can see from the videos i decided to go with the original first design i came up with. The "Animal hoody" baby just didn't seem to have the same impact. This baby could be calculated and smart where as i feel the other one just looked too innocent
Originally when i showed this to people the response was (So what's inside the box) ((Obviously i intended for it to be a Cookie jar (AMERICANISM) so i had to quickly add something (I was working in frame-by-frame though so i had to edit each frame..)
All i did was add a simple cookie design and it seemed to twig with people a lot easier (May be that i told them what it was supposed to be before changing it). Personally it does make it a lot clearer so i'm happy with it in that sense.
STYLE?
I originialy stated that my intent was to do a water-coloury "pooh" like art style...How wrong i was. I attempted to even remotely make something that looked good, and i failed, this is how far i got.
Before facepalming and shaking my head.
The art style wouldn't have worked in animation (For a more experienced and practiced animator maybe) but for me and the time-frame i gave myself, it just really wouldn't have worked. Maybe i can come back to it on my second module? Who knows.
COLOURS?
There's an interesting piece of journalism that i came across when researching "colours".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4474725.stm
Now although this is talking a lot about babies (4-9months) i feel that it's still an interesting point. Are children favoured towards certain colours? Are boys favoured towards blue and girls pink? The article discusses it.
Colours in childrens animation are very important, before i chose the final "light blue/baby blue/sky blue" that you can see above i did try a few more pale colours.
The reason for chosing blue wasn't for any other reason than it worked best with the background.
Green - It was ok, but didn't really do anything.
Blue - The chosen colour and i think suited the "innocent" baby thing perfectly.
Purple - Same as the green, it was ok..But not quite there.
Yellow - Clashed with the yellow background.
Red - Just wasn't a fan.
Pink - This was 2nd favourite next to blue
Orange - Clashed too much with the cookie jar.
Grey - No.
Below is an example of what i meant (Compared to the background).
BACKGROUND?
My original idea for a background was pretty much the same as my idea for the art style of the animation "Water-colour". Once i realised i really couldn't do what i wanted in photoshop i quickly threw myself back over to something i knew, Flash!
With this in mind i still didn't want to do something vectory and none experimental, although what i came up with wasn't out there and wacky i think it worked. I tried to remember when i was a kid and the way i would coloured things in colouring books. Was pretty much scribble but it somehow worked because of the lines around the scribble, this is what i went for, and personally i feel it worked.
A drastic colour change for the background of scene 2. I did this because the pale colour didn't work in contrast with the hand-prints. Also as the second scene is intended to be a living room, i don't feel pale colours would of worked as well.
I added a simple boil to the paintbucket as it's the foremost object in shot and it looked a little static.
COLOURS?
There's an interesting piece of journalism that i came across when researching "colours".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4474725.stm
Now although this is talking a lot about babies (4-9months) i feel that it's still an interesting point. Are children favoured towards certain colours? Are boys favoured towards blue and girls pink? The article discusses it.
Colours in childrens animation are very important, before i chose the final "light blue/baby blue/sky blue" that you can see above i did try a few more pale colours.
Green - It was ok, but didn't really do anything.
Blue - The chosen colour and i think suited the "innocent" baby thing perfectly.
Purple - Same as the green, it was ok..But not quite there.
Yellow - Clashed with the yellow background.
Red - Just wasn't a fan.
Pink - This was 2nd favourite next to blue
Orange - Clashed too much with the cookie jar.
Grey - No.
Below is an example of what i meant (Compared to the background).
BACKGROUND?
With this in mind i still didn't want to do something vectory and none experimental, although what i came up with wasn't out there and wacky i think it worked. I tried to remember when i was a kid and the way i would coloured things in colouring books. Was pretty much scribble but it somehow worked because of the lines around the scribble, this is what i went for, and personally i feel it worked.
A drastic colour change for the background of scene 2. I did this because the pale colour didn't work in contrast with the hand-prints. Also as the second scene is intended to be a living room, i don't feel pale colours would of worked as well.
I added a simple boil to the paintbucket as it's the foremost object in shot and it looked a little static.
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