applied: technical tests

We wanted to use water colour in our animation to illustrate the imagination of the child when stories are being told from their perspective. I had used track matts in after effects once before this project and thought it could be an effective tool for animating either digital or real watercolour. I did the first test with some simple digital water colour and some black frame by frame animation over the top. Using a luma matt which makes black into a mask it created a nice colouring effect which was controllable using frame by frame animation. This also meant I could use a wide range of textured brushes for the colouring which gives it a little more character.

I then tried the same technique but with one of the storyboard panels I tried a few different animating approaches.