One Day Project – Style Research
Before beginning to sketch up designs for the main character and settings etc, I first needed to research various styles of animation that would fit into my idea. As I am aiming for a noir/dark style, I found a selection of images that I would use as a guide for the style of my animation:
I first found an animated film called Waltz With Bashir:
This feature length film took 4 years to create, therefore I won’t have the time to go into as much detail, however this style would be incredibly simplistic to recreate for my flash animation.
I also found some other exampels of effective colour use that I could use: These are scenes from some comic book strips:
Scenes from the Watchmen Comic:
Scenes from Frank Miller’s Sin City Comic:
Now that I have a mindset on the style that I want my animation to be set in, I will now begin to sketch out character designs and possibly set designs.
