Final Project Update #2

I have painted a couple backgrounds for my animation in Photoshop. The files are HUGE because I wanted to be able to only use portions of the same painting throughout the animation. I am prepared to take any shortcut. :)

A starry sky.

This is the jpeg file, so its quality isn't as good as the one I will use. And it's huge. It's made of a couple layers: the blue/black layer, which I used the burn tool with the leaf brush selected on a blue square, and then a stars layer. I made little white dots with a soft brush, then went over them in an air brush. I'll have to figure out a way to make them 'twinkle' in After Effects.

Grassy field. Look at it in full view to see the detail.

Again, this is a jpeg so the quality isn't as good, and that sky in the background will be replaced with a piece of the sky canvas I made at the top.

Here you can see some of the grass brushes I made in order to paint it:

And some rocks:

The pieces that make up the girl (you can't see the eyes because they're white, obviously):

And what the girl will look like (roughly):

Today I am working on the dog and random pieces like a couple of hand positions, sleeves, and some different angles of the girl's face. My goal is to get all of the painting stuff done this week so that I have all next week to animate and do special effects, and that weekend add sound fx and maybe some music. Of course, this is the goal and there's always some kind of wrench thrown into the system. We'll see, we'll see...

~Becca