Color Collage

This is another test where I'm trying to nail down the color palette. I took images from the interwebs and cut them out to form the shapes, also giving texture to each object. It's really tough to get the right balance of the pinks, peaches, browns, and yellow-greens... but this is getting there. Unfortunately, some of the saturation was lost in making the image web-ready.

Animaticiacs. . .

. . . and they're zany to the max.

Rough Paint-overs

We started talking about color palettes, and we all really liked the matte painting (below) from a short called Cocotte Minute, by a group at Gobelins in France (www.cocotteminute.net). Josef Albers is hard at work here, because when you sample the colors in Photoshop, the pink sky is actually more of a peach, the purple on some of the flowers is actually red, and so on.


So... I did a few quick paint-overs of the tree/hill, with this this color pallette as inspiration.

Early Shading Test

This is an early test that I did with some shading on the tree. I wanted to see how well it would disguise the cowlicks that aren't on the silhouette of the tufts... and it does a pretty good job for a static camera.