How I Imagined Mountain Man

Awesome posts, guys--keep them coming! As I have been storyboarding, I have also been thinking about the design for the mountaineer (I am thinking he seems like a "Victor" --is that manly enough?) I know we don't need to do fully rendered designs, but tonight I just copied and pasted a storyboard and slapped some colors on it!

Wesley posted some pictures of Charles Muntz (the villain from Pixar's "Up"), and coincidentally after Ethan pitched the story, I pictured his younger design in my mind as well.

I know I have a specific style, but here's my Jenna-fied version of how I originally imagined Mountain Man to look like (next to him are some of the storyboards I've done):

Of course Ethan (the visual development lead) and I will have to talk about this, but one idea I thought of was to make the mountaineer triangular in contrast with the fluffy rams, in other words, maintaining this kind of shape:

Just shum food for thought! :) Thank you, thank you, thank you for your posts! Keep those ideas coming!

Little Ram

Sorry--one more post for the night. Today I also found some time to draw some quick concepts of baby. I am really into drawing cute things, so I was excited to get this guy off my mind and onto some digital paper! His eyes are a little funky, but it's getting late so I will get back to them another time.

His name is not actually Rambo. :) I asked my brother for a name with "Ram" in it, and this is all we could think of besides Ramplestiltskin.

If you find the time over break to do some sketching for Ram's Horn, post them up on the blog! Seriously--anything from sketchy pencil drawings to paintings. Feel free to post it up!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Reference

Hi guys!! It's Jenna! I am home for Christmas right now, but since my younger siblings are busy studying for their finals and I am a loser with nothing to do right now, I decided to get the ball rolling on this blog! On the drive home I watched one of my favorite movies--Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I love everything about this movie from the humor to the style of the characters! While watching it this time around I was amazed at their clever, fun use of color and so I took a few still images to post for inspiration. Take a looksie:

The first thing I noticed was the awesome color choices of the sky. They literally painted the sky every color of the rainbow, but even if it was a deep pink like you see below it didn't matter because it fit the mood so well and blended with the other colors in the scene. 

And check out these CLOUDS! They are so stylized they look like they could take on a life of their own! I am geeking out:

 

You can tell they were very careful when selecting the colors to use on this film. They used a lot of subtle shades of blue in his lab, but also added some blinking yellow knobs to accent the room.

More yellow and blue mixes! I want tho eat that jello:

 

 A pretty example of using a lot of neutrals, and then adding light blue accents to liven up the room a little. Depending on what direction we go, our film may have a lot of neutrals in it (what with the snow, rocks, and tree trunks) but we can have a lot of fun finding ways to use accent colors to liven up the backgrounds a little:

They also had some REALLY neat monochromatic color palettes. I love the shot with Flint's labcoat hanging on the electrical wire. Even though it's so tiny it stands out because it's the only bright white color against all the reds!

And the last thing I loved about the color choices was how well they helped accentuate the mood of the characters. In both these shots Flint and his dad are either bored out of their minds or down in the dumps. The shop had a lot of desaturated blues which really drove the mood of the story home.

There is really great stuff in this film! If you haven't seen this movie in a while, check it out! I have it too, so when I get back if anyone needs to borrow it let me know. :) I am sure as Ethan was pitching his story, you all could see it playing through those beautiful minds of yours! Don't be shy--post anything you find inspirational to the blog so we can piece something beautiful together!