H.M.Punton Illustration & Animation

A rthur Rackham was my main inspiration for the style of my last animation project. I just really like his ink work, just how intricate his work looks. I particularly like the way he drew trees, I like the way he made the lines of detail wrap around to create this 3D look. I also really like the way he drew water in his pieces with ripples in the water or the layers of arching waves. I really Like his work depicting the story of Sigfried and Brynhildr since I am a huge fan of Norse mythology and really like the way Valkyrie's look in older artwork. I will keep his work in mind for the future if I get a project that I think his work would be a good bit of inspiration for.

For this project I was tasked with creating a piece of environment animation using 2D assets in a 3D plane. This is a technique called 2.5D or pseudo 3D. For my animation I went with a graveyard as my environment and used pen and ink to create my assets with a small bit of cutout black card for objects which needed less detail. The style I went with was inspired by Arthur Rackham's ink work but with a slightly creepier twist. I think overall I am rather happy with how my assets came out though I think I could have done with more of them. I also ran out of time and the final scene of my animation never got completed so it just loops back to the start. This is definitely something I would like to address in the future. Strengths I think my assets looks suitably spooky for the theme and since this project was my first time using ink I'm very happy with what I have been able to accomplish with washes and other techniques. I'm very happy with my sound design ...

https://vimeo.com/7158709 While I was looking at inspiration for my environment project I came across this advert for united airline which uses cutout animation. I found the advert to be surprisingly good and pretty damn well animated. It depicts the imagination of child and what they imagine their father gets up to when he goes away on business trips turning him from a simple business man into a dragon slaying knight of the round table. I really like how they were able to work 2D cutout into a 3D environment from tehir use of cutout for the blanket at the start or the way the round table breaks into 9 shields. It has a very tactile feel. I also really like seeing how they created things like fire or the water of the ocean by layering the different cutouts on top of each other and using perspective to create depth.