Developing My animation - Visual style Research

 Its important that before I begin animating anything for my final animation that I understand what visual style I want to go for.

Sorry, more watership down im afraid! This visual style would work perfectly for my gritty narrative. Its also an interesting style because the backgrounds are often painted by traditional painting methods. I like the over exaggeration  and squash and stretch, this animation shows how cartoons can be gritty and designed for older audiences.

(WARNING: the clips I have gathered are very gritty and of a dark nature, as is the story that I want to tell)


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plague dogs film is created by the same animation studio as the watership down clip, both are examples of cartoon animation that is NOT designed for children. My story is not designed for children, its an adult story, but I would like to stay away from realism in the art style. These films are examples of how you can do that.

Clip from the movie '9'- Its gritty and has some horror elements , yet the style is very cartoon. I do not want to computer generate my animation or anything like that however its still good to look at films like this to get an idea of visual language and how to tell a dark story using cartoon characters. My end result would be best suited to 2D, which is also more fitting with my capabilities. 


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