For this project I wanted to take a more traditional approach where we used falt coloured backgrounds. One was I think would be to use the technique used by Batman the animated series team, where they drawed coloured drawings on a black charpaper rather than painting in black. This method in turn gave black a flat matte feel while the coloured imagery a more grainy look.
As a child I have always admired the chuck jones art style. This was also visible during the early cartoon network era when cartoon like Dexter’s laboratory and Powerpuff girls made use of this. Even though there were flat (in the sense that there was as such no perspective and depth). The energy of the charcters used to gel in quite naturally.
I need to find a middle ground between these two styles. and A mixture of Max fliecher and Chuck Jones cartoons where the backgorunds were flat yet the charcters had a gradient feel.
References
Batman the animated series. 1992. [Film] Directed by John Calmette, Bruce Timm. s.l.: s.n.
Pink Panther. 1963. [Film] Directed by Tom O’Loughlin. George DeLado. USA: United Artists.
The Line and Dot. 1965. [Film] Directed by Chuck Jones, Don Morgan , Maurice Noble. USA: Chuck Jones.
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