WWII Film Backgrounds
In this post, I want to describe our process for creating the backgrounds in our new film. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the look we wanted was that of Willem Den Ouden’s dark, moody etchings. Starting with my rough sketches, Iandry and Tom Witte created paintings and drawings for the various scenes.
drawings by Tom Witte
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Willem Den Ouden and Iandry Randriamondroso
At one point, these images were what we showed our partners on the film as the final target. I can see how the finished look of the film comes from them, but at the time I wasn’t sure how to get there. It was like saying “hey look, this is what we can do!”, and [...]
Woman and Dog
These are a few character sketches from another short film I am currently boarding and hoping to put into production later this year. It would be another animated documentary, this time from an interview with a woman running a very small, unsuccessful museum in rural Texas. The woman was getting older and a bit worn [...]
Emotions
Besides The Parkbench, I am also working on an animated documentary of one man’s experience at The Battle of the Bulge. I would like to share some of the drawings I did for the last scene, in which the American GI recounts being haunted by the face of a child he killed in combat. The [...]
The Parkbench and Owen Jones
Hello everyone! Thanks for checking out my freshly minted blog. I want to use this first post to explain a little bit about the design of my animated short The Parkbench. Much of the design of the film comes from studying Owen Jones’ “The Grammar of Ornament”, (Dover) a book which was originally published in 1856 with the intent [...]
