Description:
During the weekend I worked on my concept art interior piece for intro to the making of using a photograph of one of my sets to be the guideline and structure for my illustration. The idea being is that it would be an experiment using advice given to me by Annabeth who suggested painting the set photo in photoshop to create the background art. Being curious I gave it a try using Photoshops distant cousin Clip Studio Paint pro to create the background. Within this I used the polygon line tool in separate layers to line out the different walls, ceilings and the far away door. These sections were then coloured using the paint bucket tool in different shades of grey dark, mid toned and light, this would later define which areas are which when painting in details. In terms of metal detailing I used the rectangle shape tool to make rectangles in shades of grey turquoise in different tones along with shades of grey, followed by the use of the soothing water colour tool to blend them and give a metal like effect accompanied by the glow dodge spray tool. This method was also used to create flooring and wall plates using hexagonal patterns.
These were flexed into position on the ground, then drawing in pipes that weren’t in the original photo but studying from the original sketch. Upon finishing I had an idea to incorporate an animation element in the section that I marked for green screening in After Effects so I opened this layered photoshop document into After effects and using my notes on green screening selected Keying in the effect toolbar and key light then using the colour selector selected the green screen within the illustration composition and placed in my green space nebula which I could then offset using the effects option and made key frames further apart to show the nebula moving slowly giving off a realistic effect. However when placed in via key light this did pick up on some of the green in the interior eliminating some of the sets ceiling panels but given there were cracks in the top it did look a bit like windows, I would need to revisit this for future projects. This was uploaded to the animation group for feedback.
Feelings:
Upon starting this illustration I was feeling rather nervous as this was something completely alien to me drawing from a set, then introducing a green screen like element to this illustrated background. However I did feel that this did have a point to it as it would act as an experiment to see if I could create a moving nebular in a still background to see its use in a motion story that I’ll attempt over the Christmas break. When the green screening affect had affected some elements of the illustration I began to feel concerned as I was worried that if this happened in this shade of colour it could happen to backgrounds that I coloured in a shade of turquoise as a room glow, I felt that I would need to revisit this to make sure it wouldn’t happen in my future pieces.
Evaluation:
Whilst I was colouring the piece I began to wonder if I could’ve tried to make it look more realistic and metal like in presentation as at times I try to make my work look real in presentation. However I realised that my style had limits and when I animated the final piece in After Effects I was beginning to think a simple style was a good thing and I remembered looking back into the Art of Loish and how she developed her own style of art through simple practices errors and refinements and that made me think every artist has their own style and this simple shaped and shaded background and motion animation could be my own style of work.
Analysis:
Looking at this situation I would think that perhaps I was trying to look at the idea of using shapes in blending and flooring to refine my realistic background style for this particular theme and trying to define the metal panels within a metal wall. I possibly should’ve tried doing this background art piece in different styles of illustration style such as trace it with a pen and acetate, to then be scanned and refined or even just experiment on selected areas with different brushes to see which would be the most effective in presentation and the overall composition. If I had done this before hand it would’ve made more sense in trying to make the background look realistic. In terms of the green screening situation I could’ve avoided the screening interacting with the background if I had just altered the painted layer to a blue like colour in the colour balance so that this issue wouldn’t have happened however I wasn’t aware of this at the time.
Conclusion:
In hindsight in respect to this I would’ve done things differently if I had the time to do this again. I would’ve first experimented with the finished painted piece in different colour shades and compared each one to see which would be the more effective in terms of the setting or the green screen element in after effects. I would’ve also considered asking for my tutors opinion on introducing green screening to a digital illustration and then I would be given the necessary advice so that I could properly approach this enterprise in experimenting with background animation and green screen.
Action Plan
In the future I believe I would first make a colour palette of colours that I may wish to include in the background piece so that I wouldn’t just be applying random colours at a whim. I would perhaps also look back to my Pinterest mood board thats revolved around this outpost theme and get another idea on what colours to use and what shades to apply so that it wouldn’t be interacting with the green screen elements and look more space themed and very detailed. I may also consider looking at tutorials on youtube in case I ever got stuck or even finding a new form of shading or colouring in my illustration work this would help me to develop and even look at ways to do a more realistic offset in After Effects.
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