Piano Ideations

Grandpa Ideations

Hey guys I decided to to some sketching for the grandpa

Some studies and early sketches

Don and Shannon sketches

I was focusing on Kley's line quality. I want to start experimenting with color like we talked about tonight after Barron's class.

Victorian House Comps

20 comps so far. Let me know if you guys like any of them. If not I'll do more. Be very picky please. Thanks. While I wait for your response I'll sketch these in pencils in the artist's style and see how it goes.

Grandpa Decker

Here are some sketches I did. :)

There are a few young Decker's mixed in with some old ones. I should probably push the shapes a bit more...

Also, I'm not sure what I should do moving forward: more ideations or start planning my animation?

Google Drive link

Here's the link to the google drive:

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B-V6bfEEcY0ZRklEczUzOVl2Qjg/edit

You can download the program to sync folders on your computer, or just upload from your browser.

- bjet

Al Parker

Sorry for being  the odd one out on style direction for this project, but I love Al Parker's Illustrations. 

I love his bold graphic colors, observation of subtle moments

Color blocking and figures set apart from like

fun colors

and forms turned into graphic shapes. 

Here's some poster studies I did based on this editorial style

Artists

Hi guys! Here are a few paintings I liked for this project. :)

In this painting, Waterhouse does a really good job of simplifying texture and color to create mood. A lot of his paintings come across as overcast too, which is nice for rainboy.

This Abbott Thayer painting also says a lot very simply. Like with Nathan Fowkes, there are lost edges that would work well for this story too.

Here's the original story

In late 1983, Don Decker, an unemployed 20 year old, was released from the local jail to attend his grandfather's funeral. He had lived with him, and after the burial he was taken in by a family on Ann Street in Stroudsburg. 

Young Don didn't have many talents, but the one he did have was a doozy. "I can make it rain," he told police officers. Could he ever - in his home, in jail, in front of friends, strangers, and the police. At his whim, jets of water would rain down from no apparent source. He also could drop the temperature of a room to freezing cold in a heartbeat.

Some of the splashdowns were witnessed and verified by the local gendarmes, including Stroud Area Regional Police Chief John Baujan and former Stroudsburg cop Richard Wolbert.

A friend of his, Pam Scarfano, tried to get him under control by putting a crucifix around his neck. It left a burn mark on him before he could tear it off. Then, a year to the day after his grandfather's death, the rainmaker suddenly lost his power.

Parapsychologists still haven't figured out the cause of his short-lived ability to call down rain, but Decker always thought it was his grandfather's spirit channeling through him.

The Ann Street house he performed his rain dance in has been demolished - for a church parking lot. Now there's an exorcism for you! His watery feats have been shown on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries and the French TV series 30 Most Mysterious Mysteries.

Rain, rain, go away...

Style Choices

Hey guys! I really like the sensitivity in color Erik Tiemen has in his paintings, especially the overcast paintings. There is this nice hazy feeling to everything.

Here is a blog to the rest of his stuff. http://www.virtualgouacheland.blogspot.com/

I would also love to do Franklin Booth and Henrich Kley for the drawing style.

My Artist Choice

I can see from the green, yellow image above that the color and lighting choice would be great for a raining scenes where everything feels wet and gloomy. 

We can use this type of lighting during some of the Piano scenes.

This one for the piano scenes as well

This one is during the happier moment.

I've looked at all the artists again. I felt that Nathan Fowkes is still a strong choice for this assignment especially for the background paintings. His color and lighting design seems more fit for the rain boy story. Why? His style have soft transitions and soft edges. His color choice in Puss in Boots have this mellow feeling in it. We can use his color key on some of his night scenes. He's also the only artist I saw that worked and currently working in the Animation Industry. His design style is just simple shapes where no shapes look exactly the same so his design style is very basic. Which means we can just design how we've always design and we don't have to worry so much about learning how to stylized our design like a certain artist. We can just learn from his background paintings and use it. In Puss and Boots, he also have a lot of indoor and outdoor designs. I also love how he had strong constrasts in his values and one point lighting that really seems to fit the Rain Boy feel. I also have the book Puss In Boots on hand as well. What do you guys think?