Backgrounds are Everywhere!
We finally got the news that Frederator’s Random Cartoons series will air on Nickelodeon in 2009. I directed a segment for an episode called “Six Monsters” way back in 2006, and I tried some experimental techniques in making the backgrounds.
I wanted to something new, something I’d never done before. So I took my digital camera and looked down.
When you live in New York City you spend an unfortunate amount of time waiting for subways in grimy, decaying underground tunnels. But this is the perfect place to find strange textures and splotchy patterns. I took a load of closeups of these gross nooks and crannies of the transit system.
Then I took some photos of creepy dead November trees in a Brooklyn park.
In Photoshop I combined the trees and the subway slime and started playing around with hues, saturation, blurs, etc. Soon enough I had a moody and interesting background. It kind of reminds me of Dave McKean’s work in the “Sandman” comic.
But it was a little TOO creepy. This is a Nickelodeon cartoon, after all. So I played with the colors in Flash to make it happier and also so the characters “popped” out in front of it.
Voila! I’m not sure when exactly this cartoon will be on TV, but rest assured I’ll blog about it.
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