Exhibition

The last three weeks have been assigned to producing an exciting exhibition to show off our first year work.  The idea is to cover the walls with silhouette's of famous animated characters.  Each silhouette would have the characters themselves blacked out, and the background to be washed out and faded, colour could be used do help the characters stand out.  Highlights can be added to them if they had a signature feature that needed to be read.  Characters or other parts are intended to be brought out in front of the display, as if in 3d, the viewer could move around the image.  I have completed three of these images, using The Flintstones, Toy Story and Shrek.  

The readability of these were important and so i had to choose poses or images that could easily be understood.  The Flintsones' i felt had to include their car, but found an image where they were side on, the others, as silhouettes were just a black mass.  I simply put different parts of several images together within Photoshop, traced round the characters in different layers, and filled in the shapes.  I then just used their rocky environment as inspiration to draw some mountains in the background, i chose the original colours to fill that in.  Toy Story i had a bit of trouble with character poses, Woody was miss-shaped and his body shape could not be understood.  I found another pose of his, which seems to work better as they now stand as mirrored poses.  The background I'm still not sure about and think it needs fading, but it includes the original colours of the scene they were in.  I think this will help the viewer identify with the image.  Shrek was easy to do, after making two i knew what  i was doing.  I gathered symbolic poses of the main characters, and placed them over the top of an image of the layout i liked.  After tracing, filling and arranging them i traced the outline of the buildings behind, and used different shades of the Shrek logo to fill the background. 

After finishing these three, and not having much else to do, and seeing as Bugs Bunny had not been done, i did it myself.  I wanted this one to be the best out of my lot, and chose to do a modern version of Bugs' environment for the background.