| Backgrounds Use your clean up poses on your animation disk and place a blank sheet of paper over top of them. On this blank sheet of paper, you will rough out the background. Use the two vanishing points that you set up for the animation poses and begin by drawing a two point perspective box that will represent the two walls behind the characters and the floor beneath them. Refer to your location design sheets to be sure that you are drawing the court yard in proper proportion. Make any adjustments that you feel are necessary at this point. Don’t leave this until later as it will just cause more problems for you then. Once you are happy with the basic structure of the room, you can move on to add the other elements within the environment. With this assignment, no matter how many vanishing points you have, be sure they are all attached to the single horizon line. Check the position of your poses with the background to be sure the characters aren’t poorly positioned in relationship to the details on the walls behind them. Avoid any tangential growth. Add the details to your rough background. Remember, this is a rough, so don’t spend a lot of time diddling over the line quality, you’ll do that later when you clean up. Double check the rough background with your poses. You can do this by turning on your light table and looking through the three sheets of paper. The rough background should take about 45 to 60 minutes. The final step is to clean up the background. Place the rough background on the animation disk and put the blank background paper over top of it. You can turn on your light table if you want to, to clean up the background. Begin by drawing the elements within the environment that are the closest to the viewer. This helps to eliminate any needless erasing. Clean up the entire background adding line quality to create a sense of weight and depth as well as texture. The clean up of your background should take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. |
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