Applied Discovery Channel 6) Animals

So now was the time to sort out the animals that I wanted to include in my ident. I obviously already had my peacock constructed, so it was then easy for me to just copy and paste the little pieces onto a new document so that I could form the shape of any other animal I wanted and then play around with the colour balance as I pleased afterwards. 

For my desert location I wanted to have TWO peacocks, since I thought that the colour palette I already had for them would go best there. I copied the peacock and then changed the colours, as well as separating the wing from the body so that I could animate them separately. This turned out to be a good idea, and I am happy at how they look together and on this setting.  

Then for the beach setting I wanted to include something that embodied the 'marine' life side of the channel, though this is usually shark week and where fishermen are out in the most drastic of climates, I still thought I would have a vibrant/neon look to the animals. I used the pieces from my peacock on the left dolphin shown above, and then altered the colour balance to get a more realistic colour depiction of a dolphin and I like the result. I decided not to separate the fins/tail of the dolphin, instead I would just animated it diving between the waves as from looking at reference videos, the dolphins bodies don't really change shape as the are jumping mid air, it is usually as they are swimming. 

This how the dolphin looks against the beach location. I think I chose the colours well, because you can easily see the dolphin but it doesn't look out of place either!

Then the setting left was for the safari animals. Because a safari is more broad, I thought I would include a range of animals for this piece. I knew I wanted to have something flying in this sequence, so I chose to do a butterfly which would be the main movement of this sequence. This was also a hard part for me to do because I didn't know what colour to have for these animals. The safari at night setting is dark so I couldn't then have bright colours on top so it was quite awkward for me to dictate how I should portray these animals. I didn't then want to change the setting because it took a really long time to make these components since they are so intricate, so I decided to make them a little more neutral and play with their depth.

This is how they look up against the safari at night setting. I think the colours I chose work really well and because at first you couldn't really see the animals, I decided to add an emboss efect so that the shapes of the animals stood out a little more instead of just blending in with the background.

Overall this part of the brief took me SO long to do. I had so many elements to put together and consider but I think it was worth it in the end.