Background digital painting practice

This week i have been working on sketching out ideas for the house that the exorcism will take place in. I painted the scooby doo background below, which i felt helped me get a feel for painting in that style and i think turned out very striking. I then took this knowledge and drew my own house, based off research of different typical american looking houses i had done. I tried painting these houses as i had done when copying the scooby doo backgrounds, and playing around with changing the colours in hue and saturation settings. I wanted to have strongly contrasting colours and lighting, and was quite happy with this result. I then sketched out another house, this time skewing the bottom to make it look imposing, and used flat colours to paint it. I really like the simple effect the flat colours have, and i think this is the style we will use for all of the backgrounds in the animation.

Background research

I have been researching background styles that we might want ours to look like. Below are some initial ideas that we liked the look of. I would like to incorporate strong, perhaps contrasting colours in my backgrounds.




I also really like the look of the backgrounds from the Scooby Doo series, id like to replicate their dark and striking shadows and flat colours. I am currently doing some test paintings to see how i can achieve this look.

Thumbnail sketching

Today oliver and i revised our script as we realised it would be way too long. We had to cut out alot of scenes and story build out and reduce it to only the very last scene. We then went about thumbnail sketching, which was helpful to agree how shots would be laid out, and so i would know rougly how to arrange the backgrounds.