Background and style

Below are the first designs that I made in my sketchbook for the bedroom/background of my animation. The background layout isn't really as important as the characters in this particular story - However it still needed to be used to help create a style that would aid the overall animation. Infact, there is one scene which will use the entire bedroom to see all the hidden rounded objects - where we will look all around the room. Below is a simple sketch of a bedroom - I also made different angle and perceptive of the bedroom so that I could understand the angles better. From these sketches I have generated the digital versions of this particular design - mainly to get a better picture of the colours I could use. At first I want a dark room (but not using black or greys) instead I selected this maroon colour which worked well in darkening the room but giving the art more colour - This colour for me reminds me of being 'alert' and it could serve as a warning as soon as we see her entering the room filled with these round objects. Below is a really rough version of this room that I had designed to use in the background of a short animation clip - however I felt it didn't work because the colours were too busy with the orange hair. I then thought back to the animatic that I had created which used only tones of blues - It actually looked really nice because it gave the animatic this washed out look. I then decided to go down this route of using one tone for the background - therefore it would be easier to create and would not look as busy as the experiment below. 

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Above, is a selection of my finished backgrounds that I will be using the background of my animation - as you can see its a lot more simple than the first version I created. One of the reasons for this is because I had to change the background around after all - the bedroom of my first sketch design was actually to small for the 'worrier' character to trip over. Therefore we are instead presented with a larger more 'empty' room (which will have more ball all around hidden.) I'm really happy with the outcome as it isn't as busy as the first and has its very own character about it. The bedroom of anyone, but mainly of the 'worrier' is to be an extension of the character - this bedroom is simple and uses light tones of brown just as she is wearing, this shows that she feels secure within this colour. When the rounded objects releases hundreds of 'blue' tentacles in ruins this security that she feels with brown. Furthermore I feel that brown (and in particular, these shades) are a passive colour. Anxious people to be passive rather than aggressive people as they don't like conflict therefore I've used these colour to emphasise this personality strait.

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To the right you can see a palette of the only 7 colours that I will be using in my animation. The reason for this is because the style of my animation is going to use similar tones and colours too make a 'secure' environment for the 'worrier's' bedroom. The first colour (Top) will be the most used colour, it is the colour of the outlines for the character - it also will be used for the background, different shades being used for the colour. The second and third block are the colours of her clothes (again a brown colour to emphasis her security she finds in just this one colour). The fourth and fifth colour are the colour of her skin and nose. The sixth the hair which is a contrasting colour too the bluey grey underneath (that is used for the tentacles of the anxiety round objects.) I decided to pick this colour blue after doing a survey where the average colour that people felt described anxiety was a bluey grey.

Brown

Brown is a strong colour. It is a colour that is masculine but yet feminine because of its warmth. I choose such as strong colour because it expresses how people with anxiety are constantly 'fighting' there anxiety just as the 'worrier' is in this animation. Furthermore as I've previously mentioned it is also a warm colour which is homely - the colour has to express how her clothes and the colour of her bedroom are all choices that she can make for herself. Its her own place of security, warmth and comfort. Outside she may feel anxious but within this haven she is able to be in a calm environment. Furthermore brown is one of the plainer colours, I did this because it shows how anxiety can keep a person in their comfort zones without trying new things. Brown is a passive colour that emphasises her passive nature for being a person with anxiety.