FMP Week 6 Day 3

My aim for today was to get halfway through the backgrounds so that i can start animating tomorrow, 

however i managed to finish the backgrounds and some other various things that i still had to do. Even
though i only have one week left i still feel that i will be able to finish before the deadline. As i am using puppets i will be able to do most of the animation in one day. What I don't like at this late stage is the amount of things that I only now realise that need doing, such as the glasses for the flight, the police at the boarder and the monuments from London.

initial sketches for the policemen

policemen, i went over their features and they have movable eyebrows to make them look more menacing

Inital sketches for the Evil Bird that sits on the woman's head, like the other, smaller birds the Evil Bird will only be one colour. I feel that red is too much of a denotation of evil and anger so i think i will choose green, as that is a neutral colour, which will lead my viewers into thinking that the bird does not mean any harm.

Initial sketches for the departure lounge, I plan to experiment with different textures and colours 

I experimented with having a similar collage style to the characters, but i feel that this has not worked as well as i desired, maybe due to the fact that all of the pieces have been torn up and give a rough texture.

I also experimented with different textures, but this still did not look right

In the end I decided to use water colours to give some colour to my background. another reason why i did not use the collage style was that it would catch on my characters when i tried to move them, so for continuity i would need something flat

I put known landmarks of Australia outside the window, however this was covered by the characters, so i will need to find another way of showing that it is Australia

(I wanted to put this at the top but blogger wouldn't let me)  The initial sketches for the backgrounds 

Runway (Was not used in the end)

London Airport. Grey to show the change from sunny, bright Australia

Plane Seats. I was going to fill in the background behind the seats but I felt that this would possibly draw the eye away from the main characters which i need the audience to be focused on as they might miss a trick if they look away, as the actions are quite quick

I did plan on having other plane seats in-front of the characters, but this looked too cluttered and then i would loose the detail of the hands