07.04.09 -- Wall-E and The Dark Crystal notes

WHAT I HAVE DONE TODAY:
Read through the Wall-E art book and re-read the Dark Crystal book. I found the annotations and actual information in the Wall-E book to be more useful than Bolt, as it concentrates more on the process where Bolt's book concentrates on the technique and look of the film. I also find the Dark Crystal art book incredibly interesting as it portrays a good deal of character art and exploration, while it's actually written entirely in-character, as if the world of the Dark Crystal actually exists. It adds to the believability of the film, and it is this aspect I am keen to mimic in my own work.

Although the 'world' of mesoamerica and the Aztecs isn't fantasy or science-fiction like Wall-E and the Dark Crystal, it is nonetheless a 'world' that you can't visit and have to use your imagination to access. So, in this aspect, I would like my final exhibition to use the Dark Crystal book's method of using concept art as 'evidence' or 'research', while telling the story of The Obsidian Butterfly like a legend and film through story boards and character models.

WHAT I WILL DO TOMORROW:
Visit Bristol Zoo to draw from live subjects (as the real studios do), focusing on reptiles (snakes inparticular) and felines (lions, they don't have jaguars unfortunately). I plan to work in ink, pencil and watercolour. When I get back home I will also look up photo references of jaguars so I can compare their structures with those of the lions. And, while I'm at the zoo, I will take photos to be put into my work book as original references.