As part of making sure we were all on the same page in terms of style, I carried out some research in and created some annotations to go with them which matched with the ideas we were pitching during one of our meetings. I also made note of the kind of style we wanted to stay away from; we didn't want lots of swirly designs because we felt there would have been an overload on patterns otherwise and our intended style may not have come through as strongly as we wanted it to. The mood board which I created above after carrying out research shows some examples of the kind of designs we wanted and didn't want.
Method of Animation
The way in which we decided to animate our chosen patterns, was to create gifs of the designs, just simple ones. We then wanted to animate those moving gifs and have them moving around the chosen areas by masking them out in certain places, so only small sections of each gif would be visible. This seemed like a good idea for us, because this would have us having to animate areas that would be masked out anyway, placing one large gif behind the live action and then creating holes for it to be visible in certain places seemed to make more sense than creating lots of little gifs to be animated separately!
So we knew that when it came to creating our own designs, we needed to keep in mind that they needed to be gif-worthy!
Face Paint
For the stop motion face paint animation, we either wanted to animate just on the face, or the face and neck. Again we wanted to use designs that were quite bold and well suited to be painted on somebody's face. The designs used would need to be easily animated. I carried out some further research in terms of colour and shape. Once again, going for quite bold, block type patterns seemed like the best option, because this would link better with the style for our other 3 films.
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