Applied: Rosie's media tests

We decided quite early on that we wanted to use watercolours in the animation for two main reasons. Firstly that they would add a lovely hazy wet feel to a story which revolves around water, rain and flooding. Secondly that Noeline is recounting a story that happened nearly 80 years ago - and that hazy feel will also add to the idea of the story being a distant and foggy memory.

Whilst I was getting on with the storyboards and animatic, and Brenda was designing characters and creating their style sheets, it was Rosie's task to test out different media so we could decide how to actually go about creating frames. It was decided that painting in Photoshop using special watercolour brushes would be the quickest and most efficient way to animate whilst retaining the look we want. Rosie has prepared a list of the best brushes she found in her tests.