With a little help from my friends...

My girlfriend (aka PNGNA) doing some further works on the backgrounds and some experiments with watercolor...

Production Pipeline Proof

So haven't blogged for some time, but will upload the work so far.

This concept for John's look in the animation is kinda what I am aiming for. Haven't been able to work out a way to make it work though, the idea is that the textures stick to the characters movements; so far we've been trying to work a way around it in after effects, but no textures can be assigned unless they are animated individually (which will take me a life time and most likely the texture will gitter when the character moves). I found out that maybe Anime Pro might do the job, but I am still to prove that. Will do next week.

Also done a test of the background I want for the animation. watercolors for the elements in the shot, the sky will be marbbled. I am still debating whether to trace ink over the composition or not.