In need of a Production Designer!

* If you are a production designer interested in helping me create stop motion- sized (roughly 1/6 scale) spanish environment with an architectural style similar to this, please email me at gypsyfilm@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you!*

Animation Inspiration

Is this kind of smoothness (in animation and in the characters' skin textures) possible in Senior Thesis animation? Or is it only the product of funds and research from studios buying expensive armatures and better skin molds? I am hoping to have this quality (or as close to it as possible)of animation, textures, sets and clothing.



Check out the environment when they're in the street. Specifically the second clip at the 1 minute mark.









These sets are really cool, and so is the idea.. but I'm not fond of the puppets. at. all...
How did they get such smooth camera movements? Does anybody know??!!




This deserves to be looked at.. if only for the animation. It has nothing to do with gypsyfilm.



This is well done- the character animation is very good.

Referencing Jewels!

Great accordian reference!





Attitude reference! See 00:43, the bearded guy






More reference of their timing and attitudes-
-look at how they feed off of each other starting at 1:20
-also, around 1:39 watch the trumpet player breathing, he is pushing all of his air into it and his entire body has to recover when he takes in air.
2:09- check out his change of expression, very nice







With this next one-see 0:47. These references are great these clips that (1. The songs directly match the one we are using- expressions before a chorus or a big intake of air are consistent, and (2. Getting movement ideas from these shows can help us from being cliche. Their movements are very spur of the moment and unplanned. Whether or not they are perfect notes on stage, their attitudes are of performers, not storyboarded and pre-planned animated "cariacatures"- which are often so stereotyped or exaggerated that they lack a thought process.






This is interesting:





And another:





Lastly, this one has nothing to do with reference, it's just a really great cover of Mount Wroclai:

Dalia Animation

Reference of dancing for Dalia Animators-
note:
- sharpness of movements in contrast with overlapping action
- fierceness in both expression and in poses

I know its early to be posting this, the character designs and model are not complete for the Dalia character, but this is a point of the story that I am 95% sure about.
Once the character is modeled and rigged, I am going to do a test- similar to what Pixar did when they were testing whether they could animate realistic fish movements for Dory, and basically rotoscope a few seconds of dancing side by side with the live action. We may end up opting for a very stylized version, but again- this is jumping ahead of ourselves.

inspirational images

Thoughts and Inspiration

okay I was just about to start working on some sketches, and thought I'd gather some quick google images for inspiration on the kind of village. Tell me if you have a similar idea in mind.

-Grey-ish brown buildings, made from planks of wood. Resembles an old western town in a way.
-Cobblestone streets similar to old europe.
-bright tapestries and colors to balance out dull buildings. (Spanish-esque?)
-the bright colors of the sky would also balance out the buildings.

Old Western Towns:







Cobblestones:




Spanish Patterns/Fabric:

Initial Color Ideas

I played around with color ideas today. This is pretty close to what I was picturing when you were explaining the shot to me, Courtney. Aside from maybe some blue-ish lightning in the clouds(?). more to come...



I also did a google search for some images of clouds I thought may be useful.





Here's a few links too, just for kicks and inspiration.

Art of Disney Animation
Animation Backgrounds
Film Bytes
Frame Filter
Mis en Scene
Screen Musings
Screencap Heaven
The Black Island
Animation Treasures