It was decided that me and the illustrator should focus on the environment and character designs as we won't be able to help much when it comes to the animation part. I picked to do the environmental designs as I felt that this would suit my style more.
I did some initial experiments in photoshop using textures and various abstract shapes. I thought that these might be a little too abstract for the animation but we still don't have a full outline of the animation yet so I can't do that much for the moment.
I think that this was my personal favourite out of all of them just because of its simplicity. I like the use of the textures instead of block colours as a backdrop as this will make the characters and animation really stand out on top.
I also played with the thought of doing something isometric. Looking into what's happening in a square bubble of sorts a lot like the portal advert that is inspiring our idea. This would be really difficult to create full environments for though, it would be easier to do in a 3d software but I wouldn't know where to start.
After showing these initial ideas to the rest of my responsive group I was surprised to find that they liked them a lot. I thought that they would be a bit too abstract and paired back for what we were thinking. However they had come up with some mood boards for the style of the animation and a lot of the illustrations that they had shown on these were a lot more complex than what I had created.
A lot of the environments use lots of geometric shapes and different shades in order to create depth. They are also primarily vectorised illustrations with little traditional media used. I had also found an environment illustration that I thought was quite charming, so I used a combination of these to inspire my next environment designs.
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