Commercial style illustration
Experimental style Heathcliff and Cathy concepts
art and animation by Courtney James
Commercial style illustration
Experimental style Heathcliff and Cathy concepts
So this is what I’ve been beavering away at for the past few days, as I’m not making fully animated scenes, it seemed reasonable to create some storyboards for how scenes could look and to breathe some life into the characters. I chose to adapt this scene is it is one of the important turning points in the story and I’ll see about doing a few more.
(rough draft)
(finished)
This background was first created as a concept but I thought it would be really nice to animate the movement of the trees. So below is the result-
(exported gif quality isn’t the best from TVPaint so sorry if it looks a bit grainy for now)
It isn’t entirely shaded and and more lines needed to be animated on the foreground trees but our temporary TVPaint license expires tomorrow so goodness knows if or when this will get fully finished (and I’ve been lining and colouring it all day and I need to sleep!)
These turnarounds feature designs for Cathy and Heathcliff, when they’re younger and “rougher” and then their more refined and mature looks.
Following on from my environment studies done in my sketchbook over Easter, I created a digital version based off one of the images I found on Pinterest.
Creating these studies is allowing me to get familiar with how to stylise the environments so soon I will be creating my own from scratch and including locations from the Wuthering Heights book.
Inspired by images found on Pinterest- made with Promarkers and pens in my sketchbook. Using whatever media I can at the moment!! The little mossy rocks are my favourite