Long Pan Painting 2

This background is another long pan shot and its proving to be hard work. The perspective in the animatic layout was never that good to begin with and so it's hardly been a decent guide to follow for actual painting.

 I've more or less roughed out a layout now though and now need to add layers of trees and bushes. The plan is that I will use some of the tree layers to create a kind of parallax within the pan to help create a bit of depth to the paintings. I'm a little conflicted at the moment though as I don't know wether to include line work in these paintings. I'm thinking of either have line work for  just the animation and not the background art or have line work for the animation and for the foreground artwork like trees to help compliment the line work of the animation.

 However, as this painting develops its starting to look like a clash of ideas so I think I'm going to just go with line art just for the animated character instead.