Drawn a Drawing

In the recent weeks of working on 4Pantun, I’ve been drawing the background elements for the Asian sequences….I wonder why. But before I started we had a student named (?) that designed a few of the first drawings, when she left, I took over and I used her drawings as a reference for my designs. So if you’ve been stalking me throughout my blog’s you’ll know that I love to draw Only difference with these drawings is the style. Generally when I draw I tend to be very fussy with perfection, making sure everything looks right; shape, size, detail, etc. But Adam has explained to me that these drawings are meant to look drawn, meaning he wants me to fail epic’ly on straight lines, draw abnormal circles and worst of all, overlapping…..:O

Ofcourse it wasn’t very easy for me to purposely draw bad, I’m not saying the final output would looked bad, but more abstract compared to my other drawings. Now these aren’t your simple drawings of bamboo, grass and huts. Every object in the scene had a very distinctive pattern, if you can be bothered and search through yahoo on Malaysian art, you’ll find silhouettes of things that are covered in these tiny detailed patterns. So it was up to me to re-create these type of patterns on each and every object. Noting that these couldn’t be big and easy, they had to be small, extremely detailed and eye popping.

Some of these objects, like the huts, have more detail then say, grass. Huts being made out of a few elements and layers while grass is just one. That being said the huts took longer to draw because each element and layer needed to have a separate pattern, a pattern that was unique and didn’t clash with the others around it. Take a look at the various pattern designs I had drawn.

The one pattern that looked the closest to the Malaysian art style is the title screen, its only a short sequence of a butterfly flying through three layers of detailed patterns. But your not meant to realize there are three layers. Of course the pattern aren’t exactly the same as the Malaysians, there are little differences that make it unique but still having that connected to the rest of the patterns drawn.

Seeing pictures don’t do justice to the animation, you need to see it in motion to fully see the unique visual style 4pantun offers. You’ll be impressed in a way that you want to watch it again and again, to understand how it was possible. Although its still a while till it’s finished, you can stay updated with us for further progression on how the project is going.

….whoa, I barely had any random funny stuff in this blog, I failed you’s