It is very interesting to see how the style developed over the many years of drawing the strip. The style of the characters and how they move in comics has always inspired my art style and where i went with my work. I did used to have a lot of characters + a dog as both a comic and animations. Although i have left them behind the style of Rainbow is clearly influenced by their simplistic facial features, button eyes and simple lines for noses and mouthes.
Recently i completed the 'last scene' in Cliff and the End of the Rainbow but not the final one i am to work on.
here is a drawing of my production
As you can see the green areas are complete, the beginning and the end.
I recently finished the ending of the film with some suggestions from my girlfriend. Originally Cliff would breath in to speak, then get kissed, then the screen would go black revealing the end.
It ended up being too sudden, and did not really work for a short films finish.
Because of this i made it so the camera tracks upwards above them, past a tree and into the blue sky revealing the words 'The End'
This seemed to work better than the quick cut.
So now i have returned to the middle of the film to work as hard as i can. My personal deadline in June 25th.
I am very much hoping i can pull this off.
Here are some screenshots
The warrior is very hard to draw/animate so i decided to give him a tough confident look when bringing him back for the films ending. These are the red line drawings for planning.
This above is actually a quick sketch to tell me where abouts Para Cat would stand in that shot, though the drawing came out strange it was still very useful.
And below are three frames from the ending as the camera pans upwards
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- Nathan Viney
Cliff and the End of the Rainbow Production Blog
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