Anime studio backgrounds: Family Guy

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 7:22 pm

I just finished this one a couple of minutes ago:

PK

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:30 pm

Wow - I like it.
(Maybe the pond should be rounder as well?)

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:34 pm

slowtiger wrote:Wow - I like it.
(Maybe the pond should be rounder as well?)

Thanks pal.
The pond? I think may be you are confusing some of the shapes.

ulrik · Post by **ulrik** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:57 pm

Great work Parker, I love your lines and colors

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 1:57 am

ulrik wrote:Great work Parker, I love your lines and colors

Thanks.
You really can get beatiful curves with ASs drawing tools.

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Sat Dec 25, 2010 7:03 pm

Enjoy this new one:

Mozbo · Post by **Mozbo** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:33 pm

Parker, was the "Night Country picture inspired by the opening background of "Cluckie the Vampire Chicken," the Nickolodeon cartoon on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF3JaV7bE0 ???

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but if you are copying someone else's work to that extent, it's just considered "good ettiquette" to at least acknowledge and credit where your inspiration came from, since the original artist did the majority of the compositional work...

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:38 pm

Mozbo wrote:Parker, was the "Night Country picture inspired by the opening background of "Cluckie the Vampire Chicken" by laikRN on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF3JaV7bE0 ???

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but if you are copying someone else's work to that extent, it's just considered "good ettiquette" to at least acknowledge where your inspiration came from, since the original artist did the majority of the compositional work...

Yes, my major inspiration here is obviusly Cluckie the vampire chicken.
I knew that Freakishkids made those BGs with another software, i think it was Combustion or something like that so i just wanted to prove that there is no need to use other softwares when you want to make your own BGs, just use AS, its perfect for the task.

Well the first one is very similar to the one of the show, as i said before i just wanted to prove that you can really do those beatiful BGs in AS.
The night country was my first time at trying to make the CVC style in AS so thats why its so similar.

Yet you have to have in count some differences here, especially in the moon and the clouds.
My clouds are glowing, CVCs clouds have no glowing at all.
The moon i made has texture, and also some white lines sorrounding it, CVC doenst, also i made some grass and the only plants you see on the show are only tall trees and bushes.

Mozbo wrote:"the original artist did the majority of the compositional work..."

I agree with you but not totally i dont think we can say the same thing with my second BG, the corral.

At the end you interpreted things well, this is my way not only to prove ASs capabilities but is my way to express my respect and admiration to the work of the ones in charge of the BG art of this fantastic show, Stu Gamble and Miklos Weigert.

Uolter · Post by **Uolter** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:48 pm

Excellent! I love this style!

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:49 pm

Uolter wrote:Excellent! I love this style!

Glad to hear that, wait for more very soon.

neeters_guy · Post by **neeters_guy** » Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:04 pm

Parker, this is inspirational in its own right.

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:46 am

neeters_guy wrote:Parker, this is inspirational in it's own right.

Kind words, thanks.

knunk · Post by **knunk** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:33 pm

Excellent work Parker... but I feel strangely violated. Ha ha. I hope you dig into this further and research some more. A lot of work was put into the art direction. Take a look on the FK site at the pre production artwork. This is a tiny portion of what was produced to nail down the look and palette of the show. So don't just look at the surface, dig deeper and get into composition and colour theory. These are extremely well done though. Hats off to you.

Jez

Mozbo · Post by **Mozbo** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:03 pm

Well, Knunck, now that you've seen Parker's excellent homage to you and VC, please tell us, what software DO you use, and do you use Anime Studio for any of your animations?

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 9:10 pm

Mozbo wrote:Well, Knunck, now that you've seen Parker's excellent homage to you and VC, please tell us, what software DO you use, and do you use Anime Studio for any of your animations?

That i know and i know some because i a read a lot about this guys on the web, they use a lot of AS to create their animations.
90% of the animation of La reine soleil was done with AS.
CVC was done with AS and Flash and if im not wrong BG art was done with Combustion??