Ocean Background

The final. Just added two more bolts of lightning so when its animated there won't be two places that the lighting appears now.


Added the clouds and lighing on seperate layers hopefully with enough freedom to move the clouds around and show the lighting when required.


I didn't like the colour of the sky so decided to make it less saturated and I prefferend this clour as its not so strong and jumping in your face as much.




Painted this background again and trying to keep the atmosphere with these colours. (I'm really not good with sky painting and such).


(NOT MINE. This belongs to Ben who I'm creating the backgrounds for). His blog - http://wonchopmonkeyman.blogspot.com/
Anyway that's the image he drew and from this is where I got the impression that it needs to be quite dark and thought to work quite near to the brightness of this work.


Trying to keep it quite dark as a stormy atmosphere and also I kind of got that from the image he drew of the octopus character and the colours on it seemed quite dark so thought I'd go with the dark look.


Sketched out the entire background that would be in the scene including all the lighting bolts however having them all on different layers so it is possible to switch on the lighting whenever he wants to.


Thought I'd go for this more cartoony style of waves wich would then allow me to have them all on seperate layers again and hopefully be able to animate them moving along.


Here is a quick painting I did of the waves but absolutely hated it as I found it so small and especially with the possibility to exaggerate in animation, and also to the style I "think" Ben is aiming for it might not fit, plus it wouldn't be able to animate as it's more a stationary image.


Found that the light within the clouds are also important to have the lightning looking as natural yet powerfull as possible.


After seeing the previous image I looked at lighting on it's own and how it actually looks.


This one is more focused on the one wave rushing in, the lighting and the clouds and thickness of them. This shows that the thickness of the clouds alone show that it's a storm so thought I'd keep the focus on the clouds asmuch as the waves in the water.


This one I really like becuase of the distance out into the sea and that you can just make out the shapes of the mountains and land in the backgrond. Again though the waves are far to small and doesn't show any signs of a storm.


I just like this one as it has that one wave centred horizontally.


I'm required to create a background of a stormy sea/ocea view so looked at diferent photos of seas/oceans in a storm. Here is one that I liked because of the mist and darkness, however it lacks the huge waves that I think Ben wanted.