Animated Narratives Week 10: Light

In response to this week’s theme of light, I try to made some light changes on my work and draw a few drafts around the character of the project. Which helps me to do better atmosphere of my personal work.

However, as my work picked a simple line style which looks like the animation Who Are You, the light change in the whole animation is not obvious, even there is no light to show. I try to add some color to enrich the character design which use the face light and the shadow to make the contrast. This art style inspiration comes from The legend of Luo Xiao Hei by MTJJ studio, this Chinese animation use the simple color to fill the scene and more focus on the flexible movement rather than the shadows because of the limitation of budget. This way of showing shadows and lights help me save more time to do other work. And for the ending animation, I want to build a atmosphere of night, so I more focus on the car lights.

Similar work can be seen in the animation The Turning Point by Steve Cutts and the adventure game Limbo by Playdead Studio.

References:

The turning point- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7LDk4D3Q3U

Limbo- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ie19_GXAAw

The legend of luo xiao hei- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNHcgyx2Cdw&list=PLK-ys7c4EcnrR4UiA9n1hRox8b0EJ88gx