Background Layout

France / Valence / Studio Folimage / 4th month of pre-production of "Beach Flags"
Thanks to my super layout man "Jean", yesterday we finished the background layouts and tomorrow we'll start coloring them.We've got around 158 scenes to color... a lot of work! but everything's going well and I'm excited to finally see some colors!
okay! back to work!

We added some shadows... must say I like this and I think it's final!

Layout Décors

Today we start the layout for the backgrounds while there is a little risk of changing some scenes in the animatic during the week. Arte has to give me validation to take the next step, but I had to take the chance because Jean who helps me with layout might not be available later and we start by sequences were I'm pretty sure I don't want to change. It is nice to start a new phase of the project.

Beach Flags concept art

Some graphic research I had done before. But now I have decided to use much less colours. I will post some of my new work soon. Right now I am working on my character design before we start animation in April. Here is The trainer!

okay, so I have just a few days between the animatic and the back grounds layout, to work a bit more on the graphics of my film. I have tried some stuff that look so nice but would not be easy to animate such as this style which I like a lot. as the film has a very fast rythm, a rather complicated story, and  a small animating team, I have to choose a more simple style I guess...