Fantastic Voyage- Visual Concept & Audience

After looking at Macro photography, I realised I would need to go in even closer to plants and their structure to get the perspective of a flower from pollen's perspective.Therefore I started to research microscopic imagery of plants and flowers:


These images are what I want to base my designs off of as this is the kind of detail that each part of the flower will need to be in to look accurate from the pollens perspective.

I then looked at some different art/ artists to gain some more inspiration:

Firstly I looked up microscopic art to see if anything influenced me. These images are quite influential in terms of their bright colours and patterns:


Then, I looked at the painter Klimt, as he's highly detailed and stylised work is influential in terms of how detailed they are:


I then also looked at some of Max Ernst's work for his attention to detail:


Finally I looked at realism art involving plants/flowers which is influential in terms of their detailed, realistic look:


I also decided on my chosen audience: Years 7/8 (ages 11-13). As this is the age that they would be learning about the topic of plant growth cycles in school and so I thought it would be good to stick to the same age range in terms of target audience for my animation.

Market research for this age range:


Comments

  1. Hi Em - one of the things I'm really keen for you to push for this project is strong, purposeful 'art direction' - i.e. establishing some strong design-based rules that you identify, develop and stick to throughout the production of your film. My view too is that I think it would help if you considered using different 'drawing tools' - so working with strong clean shapes and strong colour. I'd like to ban you from drawing in pencil first and 'colouring in/shading' afterwards - anything to encourage you to produce a different, more punchy outcome. I'm talking about the difference between this:

    http://www.capnhat24h.info/flower-sketch/flower-sketch-21-flower-drawings-art-ideas-sketches-design-trends-premiumflower-sketch-21-flower-drawings-art-ideas-sketches-design-trends-premium-colorful/

    and this:

    http://poulwebb.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/angie-lewin.html

    It's this:

    https://biocreativity.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/charleydouble-lucky.jpg

    and this...

    https://sep.yimg.com/ay/gallerydirectart/charley-harper-estate-stamped-and-numbered-limited-edition-serigraph-clair-de-loon-10.jpg

    I think you need to 'stop drawing' and instead use Photoshop (for example) as an 'assembly tool' - you create a simple petal using the shape tool (for example) and then you duplicate that sharp and 'build' some thumbnails etc. No sketchy lines, no feathery shading - just strong shape-based making.

    Also - in terms of colour palette and design - use this to put some powerful and strong schemes together:

    http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF

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