5AD008: week 4:(23rd Feb) concept art research notes 3

Coming from the research gathered last week, I've decided to look at the cultural art/ art movements that have inspired animation.

Potential questions:

• classical arts that has influenced animation 
• how artwork has survived through animation and other mediums
• How cultural art and art movements have inspired animation? 

(The third question is most likely topic to do as this can be good to get information from and give the readers another side of looking at information as people forget how the unique pieces came to be)

Personal notes to formulate in essay:
-Gaining cultural style in animations can generate a different visual description from the theme.
-Make sure to research known mainstream animation developments aswell as unknown animation developments. This way it gives people information that they didn't know about and is interesting to read.
-make sure to research with dvds as they show behind the scenes footage that might help with what I need for my topic research in their development stages.

Examples/notes of cultural inspirations in animations:

• Mulan (1998)

-Inspiration from simplistic design and watercolour flow of Chinese paintings
-This would give a more spiritual and bright light feeling to the theme

-This style of art gave the character mulan a redesign a more appealing and selfless personality and characteristics

• Hercules (1997)

-Characters' concept style and design was heavily influenced on greek statues and artist Gerald Scarfe's work in Pink Floyd-The Wall
-Gearld Scarfe: English cartoonist and illustrator; his design of caricatures mixed with greek art and culture is what produced the characters like Hades, Megera or Hercules.

• Batman: The animated series

-Style highly influenced by art Deco
-This would deal in taking in the style of geometric shapes, rich colours and bold forms that stand out and using to design the characters' shape and form from the likes of batman, robin and the joker.

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

-Inspired by the likes of illustrators Arthur Rackham and John Bauer that inspired the developments concept work.
-What they would have taken from Arthur Rackham is his watercolour technique to create an atmosphere and staging when stylizing character base colours aswell as taking bold use of lines through dark drawing outlines.
-From john bauer, the developers would take on his influenced work from the like of Renaissance and Sami cultures, transferred into his style of drawing when it came to painting. They would take his method of basic shapes in small sketches then created bigger drawings, same shape producing to fill in the details which lastly is filled with the right colours.