Cliff Production Blog 26.03.11

Hello! Over the last todays production has been quite slow, but still a good amount has been produced.
Yesterday i had to draw up the first background set at day time. The requirments were sunny day, blue sky, green grass.
I've sort of worked out my own shade for the grass which i will be using throughout the whole film now. It is a shade that relates back to a more realistic colour. Rather than shiney light green (Like in the original animation test).

With this i used the techniques i used for creating the sunset backgrounds, + my tractor as a background prop. I thought, if most of the film is going to be set in nature, we need a sign of the existance of human living, a tractor and some background windmills help this feeling.

I also had to re-design an old character, Tam. I had some assistance with this from Lana Cohen, who worked with my on colours and outfit.
Her old design was a basic miserable blue dress with a necklace. This came from the diea that the original story was based in victorian times. As I have set this story in more modern, mystic times almost anything will go.

Here is a picture of Tam's development (Minus the evil eyes)

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The final Tam has a yellow patch on her dress, and a bandage on her knee. This gives the impression that she is a country girl. And not extra special.

Cliff's design had already been established But i did make his head shape a little bit more circular in the final drawing. This makes him look a bit cuter, and likable as a main character.
His head shape used to be an oval.


This is Cliff popping out from the tree, very happy to see Tam below him.
The next shot is a close up and reveals Cliff falling and landing swiftly and safely next to Tam. Soon i will add falling leaves and sticks to his fall.

Next i will be animating Tam's dialogue, "Hide and seek." Which then leads onto Cliff running off and falling down a Cliff. Hopefully i will move swiftly into this scene.

Here is a shot of my original red sketch for his landing.

Para Cat does not return to the story for a long while now.



- Nathan Viney
Cliff and the End of the Rainbow Production Blog