2D Background tasks - (Week 9)
One of our tasks to do along with our 2D background shot is to roughly copy the composition of animation backgrounds from animated classics (references from animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com):
My notes from studying this backgrounds composition:
The complete darkness of the silhouette in the foreground frames the layout so the viewers' eyes immediately look towards the center, or "inwards" through the plane. The clear leaf and branch shapes also make it clear that the camera is coming out of a forest and into a bright, sunny clearing.
The hues of this background go from cold blue/greens in the foreground to warm oranges and pinks in the midground and then gradually goes back to blues in the background again, while also becoming less saturated and more grey like the sky behind, showing distance and space through atmospheric bluing.
The leaf tree type things poking out around the house create tonal contrast with the bright, illuminated house, while also sort of acting as arrows to point vertically towards the house, even as far back as the distant very left tree, which is angled more diagonally so that it points to the house. This is similarly mirrored to the right of the house where the trees are angled as well. These trees also lose detail the "further away" they are, which helps to show depth.
My notes from studying this backgrounds composition:
The complete darkness of the silhouette in the foreground frames the layout so the viewers' eyes immediately look towards the center, or "inwards" through the plane. The clear leaf and branch shapes also make it clear that the camera is coming out of a forest and into a bright, sunny clearing.
The hues of this background go from cold blue/greens in the foreground to warm oranges and pinks in the midground and then gradually goes back to blues in the background again, while also becoming less saturated and more grey like the sky behind, showing distance and space through atmospheric bluing.
The leaf tree type things poking out around the house create tonal contrast with the bright, illuminated house, while also sort of acting as arrows to point vertically towards the house, even as far back as the distant very left tree, which is angled more diagonally so that it points to the house. This is similarly mirrored to the right of the house where the trees are angled as well. These trees also lose detail the "further away" they are, which helps to show depth.
The midground has a lot of detail, unlike the foreground and background, so the viewers’ eyes look to here first - especially the red stripes of wood on the house which massively contrasts the rest of the image in its unnatural straight and jagged shapes which are unlike the natural shapes of leaves, trees and foliage. This, of course, is joined by the similarly unnatural walls and fences lining the house in a bright white, which compliment the house's colour scheme with orange foliage growing on it to match the roof.
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