I have been interested in Michael DuDok De Witt’s work, a director and illustrator based in London.
His character style is simplistic and his backgrounds aren’t cluttered with detail, they are brought to life with the use of ink and watercolour.
Witt’s animations are similar to illustrations found in children’s story books.
Work he is most known for is The Red Turtle and The Wind Rises.
The work i found particularly inspirational was his piece Father and Daughter (2000) – video below
I have applied a similar technique to Michael DuDok De Witt, when creating my own stop-motion animation video. I have used simple lines to create characters and their background, using Pro-create on my IPad. I decided to incorporate colour by creating “orbs” (backscatter) that were present in the photograph i used for the video.
I also have a test piece using one character and one hand moving, still incorporating backscatter.
Both images are from the same night. I was around 7 or 8 years old and me, my mother and our two friends, Lisa and Jess.
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