Material Testing

Creating the textures was something that we knew just needed to be cracked on with. We began by taking an afternoon to produce some small samples together, to get an idea of colour and technique.


I also incorporated some brusho, because after previous experience using this, I knew that it could be quite useful with creating natural backgrounds, because it is a medium that naturally bleeds out onto the paper.

Once these sample pieces were produced, I was able to go away and produce some on a larger scale, so that they could then be scanned in. This stage of creating samples was actually really enjoyable and helpful, because taking out this one day to do it, actually saved me a lot of time in the long run. Once we knew which textures we liked and which we didn't, I had a base to work from, which sped the process up significantly!






The final textures which I produced needed to be appropriate for different aspects of the animation. We wanted almost everything to have a traditional texture. However, there were certain areas that we knew we wanted to keep digital due to animating purposes. The inside of the mouths, eye colourings and the robin's feet and beak would be digital.

For certain areas, such as the tree trunks and the fur of the boar, I used dry brushing over the top of the patchy textures i had produced in order to add some depth and to show that these textures are supposed to be rough. For some of the sections, such as the rock and the ground, I did produced multiple textures, so that we would have more than one to choose from. When I was producing these there were a few things i needed to keep in mind:

• The textures could be easily enhanced or saturated once they had been placed into photoshop
• Only certain sections of these textures would be visible - so I wasn't precious with them
• The colour scehem for the two environments were quite different, the boar's environment would consist of much more autumn like colours, and the wolf environment would be much more foggy. 
• These two scenes would be set at completely different times of the day, the boar's scene being set in the day and the wolf's being set more towards dusk.