"It's not much of a tail. but I'm sorta attached to it."
- Eeyore the Donkey
One of my favorite lines from the original "Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" (1967). I was thinking about backgrounds for my cartoon and was curious, what environment and style I'd like to put him into. The first thing that came to mind, were the backgrounds in the opening titles of this film.
These backgrounds have a simplified "storybook" look. They started with an over all "solid color" that covers the entire frame (Emerald,Teal or Shamrock) then with a few blended charcoal elements using colors (brown, grey & yellowish green). And lastly, a cel xerox of a pencil line (pencil turns to looking like a black inked line ) sitting on top of the artwork.
The lines are broken and allows color to enter and exit freely. The same with the grass, each blade is free to sit however it wants. The last element for me, are the white high-lights on the tree (light green in the tree leaves). In the rest of the film, the leaves are more detailed but here, they are just simple "puffy" clouds.
I better add that this background pan is most likely a 16 field which is larger than television 12 field which can hold more detail. If one would want this quality they should consider that too!
