Ok I have a thing about the design of trees. I love looking for different styles for them when it comes to concept work for a country scene. I find that once I’ve designed how the trees look, it really anchors the style of the rest of the image. Stick a tree on hill and that’s your style.
by Joey Chou (from his Blog)
So this is me being all nerdy and showing some images I really like….
from Bill Wray's blog
from Shane Prigmore's blog
This last image is from Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’….love the background trees in silhouette. These totally rock!
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hiya Bronagh,
I’m sure you don’t remember me but while I did my work experience with you guys last year you very generously gave up some of your time to give me a lesson in rendering backgrounds in photoshop which I was very very grateful for! I’m now in my second year of animation but last year one of the assignments we were given was to…render a background using photoshop of course! and thanks to your many tips and advice I ended up getting a distinction for that!something I never would have got on my own! I wish I could show you the difference between the background I did before the week I spent with yous and the final piece…it’s ridiculous!well actually I don’t think I could bare to let anybody see the first one…it was done before I’d been introduced to the burn tool…. anyway so thank you so much for help and time!
so back to the topic, some of those tree designs are stunning, really like the Bill Wray’s Mad About Cartoons tree! and of course the backgrounds from Sleeping Beauty are astonishing! Know they’re not in the image above but I really love the square trees that are in front of the castle in the film, they have real ones in disneyland paris…so cool! Have you seen The Secret of Kells yet? some spectacular tree designs in that!
17 March 2009
10:44 pm
Hi Orla,
Great to hear from you. I remember you well from the Photoshop training. Glad all the tips helped….. (the burn tool is for life!) And that it helped you get a distinction in your backgrounds project. We’re still plugging on in here.
Just saw ‘The Secret of Kells’ on Monday….amazing looking and you’re right, cool trees!
Hope your second year treats you well.
As an extra tip the new Photoshop has an option to import footage into it and you can draw over it on different layers or use photoshop filters on it. Well worth some research into it for using in an end of year film…hint hint
18 March 2009
11:30 am
Is that Nelvana image from Sony Imageworks’ ‘Open Season’? there are some great stylized forest scenes in that film.
24 March 2009
11:59 am
the Nelvana Inc shot is actually from Gruesomesteins Monsters….I believe ownership on that has reverted to the creators Ricardo Durante and Mark Ackland…..the very awesome art syle in the painting courtesy of Ian Hastings
Dermot
23 August 2009
3:52 pm