01-09-2014, 01:15 PM
Nice to see you tackling a prolem area! I gotta work on my backgrounds as well XD
And Tartakovsky? If those studies are from Samurai Jack it's probably Scott Wills' stuff, seemed like Genndy himself worked more on the storyboards and animation side of things. Guess I could be wrong :/
Looks to me like your landscapes' character is getting lost to detail, like you're trying to go in with the correct values and colors and textures before designing a nice composition or getting the drawing down. See if you can get a solid idea of the principles on those samurai jack BGs and apply them, might be worth writing the tricks and techniques you notice as you're doing the studies so you have a concrete idea of what to do.
Mark Kennedy made some cool posts about layout a while ago, I think you might find this stuff helpful! http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/search?q=layout
Good luck dude!
And Tartakovsky? If those studies are from Samurai Jack it's probably Scott Wills' stuff, seemed like Genndy himself worked more on the storyboards and animation side of things. Guess I could be wrong :/
Looks to me like your landscapes' character is getting lost to detail, like you're trying to go in with the correct values and colors and textures before designing a nice composition or getting the drawing down. See if you can get a solid idea of the principles on those samurai jack BGs and apply them, might be worth writing the tricks and techniques you notice as you're doing the studies so you have a concrete idea of what to do.
Mark Kennedy made some cool posts about layout a while ago, I think you might find this stuff helpful! http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/search?q=layout
Good luck dude!