Environment Concept

Here are some illustrations/concepts of environments I liked.

These are from a children's book called The Pig in The Wig. The illustrations are by Paul Hess. They feature some awesome rolling hills and quite a bit of depth.

The following are by the same concept artist I have posted from before. These are really nice environmental concepts that look like they may fit in a Peruvian setting.

I was more interested in the style and the way the colors work together than the actual content.

In the spirit of our forthcoming trip to the alpaca ranch on Saturday, I created a few reference posters. They are each 17"x25" and will be posted wherever we meet. I found that being surrounded by these photos while working on concepts really gets the creativity juices flowing.

Style, ala Dr. Seuss

Here are some wonky environment shapes from the Horton Hears a Who trailer. I'm going to look at some more Dr. Seuss, and try out some sketches based on the shapes he uses.

Character Inspiration and Development

Here are some inspiration images followed by some character development drawings.

Alpacas are such ridiculous looking creatures, they are quite photogenic. They tend not to have very large teeth in the top of the their jaw, but giant crooked teeth protruding from the bottom lip. I tried to play off of that.




Wall-e is a very cute robot. Unfortunately Pixar has already used some of the main design elements from Johnny 5 (short circuit), which I loved as a child. I'm trying to go a different direction to see what crops up.






These robots were created by an artist called Idiot Apathy on conceptart.org. He does mostly environments, but I found these as well and really liked them.




I played with the idea of spider-like legs, which would give us a lot of room for creative animation and differing postures with the same robot.

Style, ala Open Season

These images above are from The Art of Open Season SIGGRAPH course notes. In all of the images (even the sunset), notice how the atmospheric perspective drives the background to be almost fully desaturated.

The flat/jagged look of the rocks is also very visually interesting.


Awesome rim lighting contributes to the mood.

Bill Perkins

Here's some environment stuff from Bill Perkins, a concept artist who has worked for Disney and Dreamworks, among others. There is more cool stuff on his site: www.highstreetstudio.com.

This is a render, but I'm not sure from which movie.

Tinkerbell

Aladdin

Potluck Luncheon

Here are an assortment of research photos of inspiration and style.

Emperor Kuzco from the Emperor's New Groove. A great movie with a lot of style.

Another ENG pic with some sweet hills.




These are some pictures of Machu Picchu, the Incan ruins in Peru. Llamas live here...might make a nice backdrop.



This is a really nice piece of art by Nate Wragg, whose work we drew inspiration from for the Roman Centurion idea we were kicking around. His style is really unique, it's nice inspiration for a hilly countryside.


This is a quick sketch I did of a llama. Party.

More inspiration

Tower of Grantville

Peep this. A nice way to tell a story: poetically, with narration. The darkness of the scenes allows them to get away with more. Really nice use of 2D elements for storytelling and interesting typography. Short and sweet. The narrative element is similar to Boundin'.

More Storyboard/Layout