Ink Up!

So over the past few days I have been experimenting with ink and water colours. These are for my backgrounds. As of yet I am not sure whether I will have the backgrounds green-screened in or that I will just animate straight onto the backgrounds; if I animate onto the backgrounds, I won't be able to use the plastic back that is already on the light box. It is too thick for the effect I am after, so I think substituting it tracing paper would be the best option.

I'm trying to work to limited colour palettes, but I don't want the worlds to look too similar to one another. The story hasn't changed, but I feel with the changes it would flow a little better. To try and avoid the animation from being "episodic", there will now be a scene in between each world that will (hopefully) connect them all to the life tree Yggdrasil. The idea is to have a brach that sprouts up and then blooms with a flower or a fruit. Each one will be a different colour to represent a specific realm of Yggdrasil. 

Here are a few examples of the experiments so far. These particular ones are the ones that I am most likely to use in my final film.

These two I am not so sure on, I feel that compared to the rest it is a little too detailed. I would also edit the building out on the second one, it doesn't really fit the setting.

The next few examples are ones I probably won't use.

The next few were just experimentations with colour palettes and materials. In these ones I have used ink, chalk dustings, oil and acrylic paint.