Saturday, 30 March 2019

AfterLives : Week 2

Concept art and Contracts


Since I was doing the background design, I drew some concept art pieces to see what style we could go for. We wanted the interviews to be conducted by an authoritative, god-like interviewer and so the question arose of whether the interviewer should be visible or not.


I researched about compostion for filming interviews and rule of thirds (for example). We wanted a sophisticated environment too.

Damo then came up with a few draft characters to test in these backgrounds so i could create some concept art.
This piece later inspired a gag in the documentary

One of the main ideas was that there'd be a 'dream' sequence visualising the interviewee's interpretations. I also created some concept art peices for that, experimenting with a contrasting art style.


Cameron came up with a base contract outlining the agreement, and I (with lots of tutor help from Dotty), refined it to make sure we covered all our bases. However, only a few of the interviewees actually bothered to read through it and validate our hard work



What went well:
  • The collaboration between character design and background design worked well to create concept art that informed further decisions,
  • The contract was official, polished and clear to read and understand,
  • Exploring multiple styles meant we knew what worked and what didn't early on.

What could be improved:
  • Since our animation depended solely on the interviews we should've conducted interviews earlier so we could have more production time. 
  • Creating characters and backgrounds for 'test scenes' might've been redundant since we could've done the same testing stage with the final characters and backgrounds. 

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