After starting the initial animation with my match sticks, I now want to consider the mis-en-scene in which my animation is taking place. I wanted to create some colour palettes to give me a brief idea of the look I will be going for as reference. Even though this concept may seem like a waste of time, since I really like to concentrate on colour and the initial aesthetics of my work, I actually think this was the most important part of my planning and research.
The first colour palette set I wanted to look at includes a pastel variation because I think this would be a nice contrast to the very vibrant aesthetics of my two main characters. I love the idea of having gradients in my settings because I feel like it captures the mood of the animation very well, therefore I would like to use them again. On the other hand I am not too sure both pastels and bold palettes would work together, so I then made another variation in colour palettes:
Instantly, there is a very large visual difference, but that is what I love about colour, and how powerful it actually is. These colour palettes I am making are intended for the setting outside of the window, therefore I was very interested in having a sunset or a dark night sky. I preferred this colour palette set, therefore started to apply it to my animation. I initially really wanted a sunset to fall to re-enforce this romantic atmosphere between the two match stick characters, however I realised when applying the reds and oranges to my animation background, that when my match sticks go on fire, the colour of the sunset and the colour of the fire blends in to each other to the point where you can't differentiate which is which. So that was my first issue in this brief and I was actually really disappointed. I obviously couldn't work my way around it in terms of changing the colour of the matchsticks to suit the sunset, because my matchsticks need to look warm and red, because since I am given them characteristics, I need the audience to recognise that they are matchsticks, therefore the colour of them is very significant. However instead of thinking that my animation would end up looking aesthetically bad, I thought how about still incorporate a sunset, but as it is almost set, where the sky is a purplely-red and is transforming into a dark night.
Looking back now I think this sets an even more romantic element to the animation. Plus it is a little bit of a new and different direction instead of primarily thinking 'sunset' and just going with it. Therefore I think this problem has actually come up for the good as I can now actually stretch a little out of my comfort zone and experiment with colours and setting that I would not naturally flock to.
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