The first picture is how the shot starts, when the ball rolls in. The camera then cranes up and looks down the large chasm as seen in the second pic. By this point the camera movement will have tipped off the audience that this is a 3D shot, so I'm not too worried if it looks a bit 3D at the end... just as long as the first camera angle looks 2D enough so that the audience won't notice we've cut to a 3D environment before the camera move.
And here's another angle. It's not in the film, I just want to give another view of what Rob and I have put together. I'm really happy with it.
Some of the more interesting ones anyway. There's a lot of close ups and alternate angles not worth posting. In fact I've been painting that last one from many different angles and have more to go. Man am I sick of it.
This is the first proper background I've taken from layout to colour. Until this point I wasn't entirely sure how the backgrounds would be achieved - particularly when I had a 3D interior scene that needs to look like the rest of the 2D backgrounds. There's also the tricky matter of giving the backgrounds depth and lighting without making them overly detailed or painterly - which takes too much time and contrasts too much with the animation style. I'm happy with the results however. I may go in a tweak a few things, add a little more detail to some of the boxes, but it's more or less done.
Everything here is the same shader at the moment but that will change. A lot of the smaller and more distant things (like guard rails and small pipes) will have fewer leves of shading (either solid or with one shadow) to stop them look too complex and 3D. And it needs to be coloured too, obviously.
