Animatic and layouts

 Been reworking my animatic quite hard recently, revisiting some of the shots and working out long pans. I've decided that I'm going to follow them quite closely to create my background designs so that it is less work when it comes to it and I don't have to spend to much time working out the layout.

 Here you can see that I've started working straight on top of an animatic screen shot in photoshop to paint the scene.

It seems to be working quite well and I'm  only making minor changes to the layout so that it reads better. This is probably going to be one of the largest painting of the film. The way I see it is, If I have large background paintings for the film then I won't have to animate as much and I can fill the script with some nice visuals too. I've definite got my work cut out - painting is quite a slow process but I'm hoping to get quicker at it.