Fork In the Sky is an animated short film. It explores the effect that simple daily choices have on the larger outcome of a person’s life. Constructed from two interwoven tales which are adopted from my personal experience, the animation uses a handmade illustration style that merges watercolor, ink, and scanned objects, to present the divergent paths of two young girls.
Visual Development
Texture
1. Watercolor and Ink Painting
I drew every elements seperately and then imported them into Adobe Photoshop for compositing and illustrating. In this way, every elements could be used flexibly, and i could be able to try the possibility of making things look like watercolor but not just watercolor.
Example: Waves
First, I painted 10 huge dots in Ink on rice papers and brushed blue tints on watercolor papers to create blue wave texture. For the white highlight on the wave, I meshed another plain white rice paper. To create the sand texture, I use dry brush to paint thousands of dots on another rice paper. Then I scanned and imported those images into Adobe Photoshop to composite and create layers of waves with sand textures.
2. My life is part of it
I photographed my jacket and bag for the textures of jacket and skirt on the main character. I imported photos into Adobe Photoshop doing colorcorrection and designing customes.
Sketch
Comic Book Sketch
Motion Test
Sea Transition
Trains Motion
Lighting on Trains
Drop a Book Transition
Lighting Test
Final
