Desert of Colours Tablet Work

This photo I took and put it into photoshop and by editing the curves made the sands different colours. I feel that I can use it as a refference.

This is a picture of moon sand. It's this colour sand for kids to play with that comes in different colours. I thought it would be good to look at considering the desert of colours is made up of different coloured sands which looks unrealistic.

This is another drawing tablet piece that I want to work into more to make it more realistic. I put an extra layer between some of the hills to make them look more in the distance.

Desert of Colours Thumbnails

The desert of colours is basically the night forest that has crumbled leaving behind different colours mounds of sand. Although you cannot see from the thumbnails but the deset will be all different colours.

I've been looking at different deserts with hills to get a more realistic feel to the horizon line and to also look at how sand behaves.

Drawing tablet work

This is my new thumbnail skecthes on how I want the first scene to look I've added in all the different descriptions and pieced them together to get the over all look of Fantastica.

Here I was looking at different styles to do for the Ivory Tower. It's described as being like a snail shell.

I've started to block in different parts of my drawing to get a feel of what it's going to be like. Once the colours goes in and I start adding detail and atmosphere hopefully it will look alot better. At the moment I just want to see how it looks perspective wise. I didn't end up adding in the Ivory Tower because I felt in was not neccesary to sum up the feel of Fantastica even though I did look at different shapes and sizes for the Tower. I'm still unsure whether to add it in or keep it out for the moment.

Short and Sweet

Yesterday me Leo and Jade went up to London to watch some short films. It takes place in this bar with sofas in it and everyone just gathers round to watch these short films ranging from 2D and 3D animations to live action etc. Everyone's really friendly and it's nice to interact with people who are also into animation or appreciate short films too.



This video is called "Princess Margaret Blvd". Unfortunately this is only a teaser I couldn't find the whole video but it's about an old women those mind is going and ended up sending our wonderful hostess to tears. We ended up all lighting candles for her.




This video is called "Stand up". Yet again I couldn't find the full version but I wanted to blog it because the animator was there last night at Short & Sweet to talk to. He got up and said that he originally recorded that performance and then drew over the top of actors, frame by frame, to get this animation.

We're all going again next week so hopefully it might be a more happy week because leo said how the short films are usually alot more upbeat then the dark ones we watched (lets hope so).

The Silver City of Amarganth

In this chapter Bastian starts off in the Temple of a Thousand Doors and ends up in alot of different hexagonal rooms with different doors. Then after that goes to the city of Amarganth which is this city built of of different floating houses and a palace which float on barges to protect the city, so everything is made from silver because the lake is sits on dissolves every other material. These were just quick sketches to basically put what idea I had in my head onto paper.

The Desert of Colours

In this chapter it describes how the night forest turns into like sand and creates a multicoloured desert, which this lion creature stand on and changes colour depending on what colour sand he's on. Then he takes Bastian to his kind of home into this very grand room although his house it very cave like.

Fantastica in Danger

These are some quick thumbnails I've done while reading this chapter. It sets the scene in a forest and describes different characters all going to the Ivory Castle. These are just some of the images I had while reading the chapter. It doesnt really go into too much depth describing the surroundings, so you have to just piece stuff together with little descriptions like Ivory castle and flower maze.