Research

Researching potential relevant styles to incorporate into the design of my comic/animation. Both decorated Samien and Greek urns have been used for story telling throughout history. Illustrated on them, the design tells a story through intricate and informative images. Whilst Samien pottery has quite a monochromatic colour variation, Greek Urns are the opposite with a starkly contrasted black and orange design.

- Perhaps I could use the different styles of pottery to reflect the different time periods?

- The Greek urn is more practical in terms of reflecting comic storyboards and is a style I’ve used before

- The Samien pottery would offer some interesting options in terms of new colour ranges etc..

Comic inspiration: 

After deciding that I wanted to incorporate a cartoon style into my animation as well as make a comic I decided to look at some comics I find inspiring to influence my work. The below comic is one that I found on on Instagram which is being sold on Etsy. I really like the unique style of comic boxing which is really original. I would really like to incorporate the design decisions taken within this comic as I think it would be really interesting to animate smaller sections of a comic in. For example in the fist page of this comic the rocket could be animated to move across the boxes up and out of shot.

Unconventional comic boxes:

Image 1:

I really like the idea of having unconventional comic boxes rather than having a contained book. Below is an image from a comic I found and I really like the way in which the image travels across the 5 comic boxes but also stays beneath them.

Image 2:

The below comic page has a main image which has been overplayed with smaller comic boxes which I really interesting. This is the kind of style that I have done before because I tend to make my comics one image at a time which leads to larger spreads with overlays.