Lots of pretty backgrounds

Collaboration is definitely something animators and designers need to get themselves used to so when I was asked to collaborate as part of my final major project I was happy to oblige. I ended up working with my friend Ciprian on his animated short, Moth.
I drew backgrounds for him and he animated on top of them all. Here are all the backgrounds I drew!

An adventure with backgrounds

I'm one of those artists who by default will always draw a character floating in some empty white void, so this project was a fun way to teach myself how to do backgrounds properly!

For the first half of the project I was given already completely lineart (although I did have to tidy up the lines a little as well) and was told to colour it in Photoshop. Admittedly I didn't use Photoshop much at all before this project, but using it here was definitely the kick up the ass I needed to get myself in to using it! I barely even knew where the brush tool was when I started...

The Slowest Stand-Off

The Glammies is an award ceremony held at the end of every year at my university where students show off their work and win awards in a whole rand of different categories. For 2013 the theme was cowboys and the Wild West!
As first years we had to help create short clips to play between the nominees' work, and I got to help create backgrounds for one particular clip that was a stop-motion showdown between a sloth and a tortoise.
Yes, it really is as epic as it sounds.

The backgrounds were all done traditionally with ink and watercolours, blown up digitally and then printed out again so they could be stuck on cardboard and used in the background of the set.