Interior design

Interior design

Spaghetti Western Poster Art

I've been looking for some inspiration fort art style I want to use, in particular colour schemes and found some pretty cool 60's spaghetti western poster art. I like the bold colours and the thick outlines suit my drawing style. Also the high contrast and use of abstract imaginary suits the overall aim of the project. I need to complete some media tests first to see if I can actually make it work.

Storyboard:- Alternative Opening

These are some of the storyboard drawings I did for the original opening scene for my animation. I haven't included any annotation but the basic idea is you have this old guy sitting on porch with the sun beating down on him. He's looking around the barren wasteland and trying to keep cool in the midday sun. He decides to have a little nap only to see this ominous figure appear from nowhere. The figure reaches towards the old man, who understandably freaks out. Instead of hurting the guy the stranger reaches past him and grabs a wanted poster that's pinned up behind him which is supposed to introduce the main antagonist and set up the big gun fight at the end.

It became apparent as I continued with the storyboard that the animation was running too long and I was therefore obliged to redo the opening scene completely which is a pity as I was quite pleased how it came out. I was trying to emulate the long build up in the opening scene from Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In The West" but sadly it would have been too much work. The new version is much shorter and doesn't include any real set up but rather just features the stranger walking through the desert with the famous Monument Valley style background. I'll be posting the finished storyboard and animatic shortly so you can see which version is best :)

Pose Sheets

I've already done a few pose sheets to help me with the storyboard but time allowing I'm hoping to do a a couple of them again. The art style I originally used for the first versions was quite realistic, or as real as you can get when you're depicting a gun-toting octopus. I looked over some of Jamie Hewlitt's stuff since then and have sketched out a few its and pieces and decided the art style need to be a bit more dynamic. I've looked at some examples which I've posted here and I should be posting up some work of my own soon.

Pink Panther: A shot in the Dark animated intro

A pretty cool title sequence for the Pink Panther film A Shot In The Dark. It created by UPA studios so check out the link below


Dailymotion - A shot in the Dark - Pink Panther intro theme - Film & TV Kanalı

Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle's artwork is utterly staggering! Much like John Watkiss' his work fills me with a mixture of despair and inspiration. As one of the great artists from the golden age of American illustration I'm sure his work would have been an inspiration to Watkiss amongst many others. Pyle was clearly a tremendous draughtsman but I admire his use of colour, in particular the pirate ship featured in the bottom picture. This is just a small sample of his work, I could have posted literally 20 to 30 images but check out the link below to see a little more :)





Howard Pyle Biography

Reading List:- The Storyboard Design Course" by Guiseppe Christiano

I really enjoyed this book, so much so I read through the entire thing in one sitting. Storyboarding is one of the area's I've wanted to develop with this project and this book is useful for anyone who's interested in it. It covers everything from developing basic drawing skills to storyboarding for different media such as games, films and animation. In the summer once uni is finished and providing I still have my sanity I'm aiming to go back over this book in a lot more detail.