501 - Sentient Space

In our next seminar, we looked at sentient spaces in animation. I found it quite hard to see how sentient spaces differed from anthropomorphism/animism from the previous week in the examples shown, as the backgrounds all seemed like characters themselves. 

To me, I took it that sentient spaces were more of a background role, an embelishment to the main animation, therefore I wanted my space to have very minimal movement to help push it back in viewing order. I decided on animating a sleeping hills environment to go with Treemo. Here's the background on its own:

I'm very happy with the way the animation turned out. It's quite calming. I had quite a bit of trouble with the colouring however, as I wanted to go for more of a traditional watercolour aesthetic. I don't think the colours are too strong, but they're good enough.

Here's the background combined with Treemo:

I don't think they work too well together, as Treemo's movements are sort of overshadowed by the hill's, which makes the overrall image a bit cluttered. I also could have spent more time incorporating Treemo with the environment, making him match it more.