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Some texture references for project

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A beautiful painting of a moon disquieted behind a backdrop of grey clouds

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Some movements i found useful

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Some movement and colour grade referencing from the world known Steamboat willie

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Some more grey scale references

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I found an animation called Paperman which i fell in love with the style and movements. I used this animated short a lot for referencing my grey scale style

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Some more grey scale referencing

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My tutor gave me a great idea to take the colour scheme away from the animation and just have grey scale tones as it fits with my story to my animation, which i quite liked the idea of

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I love the idea of adding glow effects off of lamp posts and car lights to my animation to add depth and tones.

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My original idea for my animation was going to be full of bright colours and tones.

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A layout from Avatar the last airbender.

Javier Pinada also worked on Avatar with his great layout designs,

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Two layout shots of Springfield in The Simpsons.

I am a huge fan of Javier Pinada so i researched a lot of his background and layout work he has done on The Simpsons

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 A still from Avatar

While researching designs for my backgrounds I watched a lot of 2d and 2d movies to get a feel for the depth and different dimensions possible to portray.