Pieta House Research Reference

For the purposes of figuring out what I want to do with my animation, I decided to take a look at a couple of different animations for the purpose of deciding on my art style as well as what medium I wished to use.

No. 1 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars

I decided to take a look at this animated show as I enjoyed the art style and felt a similar style might be suited to the animation. Some of the detail I feel might have to be stripped away for the sake of time, but otherwise I feel this art style is worth using, even though I do not intend to use hand-drawn animation.

No. 2 - Sym-Bionic Titan

Sym-Bionic Titan is another series I decided to take a look at. The art style uses a lot of strong shapes, which I felt would be suited to what I wanted to use for the full animation. Although again I have no intention of doing a hand-drawn animation, I felt the art style could still be used as an influence.

No. 3 - Paper Mario

Although the art style is drastically different to the two previous examples listed, I felt the art style of Paper Mario was very endearing to me as it was both simple and - due to the nature of the games - I felt it could translate easily to a form of cut-out or paper animation. As a result, I felt it was worth looking at for inspiration.

No. 4 - Terry Gilliam

As someone who is an experienced filmmaker and animation, I felt it was worth looking at Terry Gilliam's work for reference with regards to cut-out animation. A lot of his work is much more surreal than the idea I have in mind for my animation, but I feel that his art is very dynamic and full of energy.

No. 5 - Twice Upon a Time

I had not heard about this movie until very recently, but upon seeing some of the animation I found myself interested in the very stylized character designs. As a result, I decided to look at it for reference with regards to character design in cut-out animation.