Fantastic Voyage - Typeface researches

I have look at those images below that inspired me of the design with text and colour. They were clearly show the texts even were complementary colour as they have put a plain, separate layer between background and texts so both of them stand out but also match to each other.For this project, image 1 and 2 gave me a direction of scale and typeface and also a logo style to quote the information.

Fantastic Voyage - music Research

As I am going to use text in my animation rather than voice over, I was looking at the background music which can build up my animation, and I have look at  "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin in 1924, a combination of Jazz and orchestra and I  think that is a great resources and direction for me to think about the back ground music to make my animation more fun and joyful, matching with the colourful style of my theme .

Fantastic Voyage- Online Green light Review

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Life drawing

Fantastic Voyage- thumbnails 1-6

This is my first thumbnails for the project. No.1-3 was inspired by "the bug's life"and more like illustrative style in story book. And 4-6 was inspired by the vintage,19's graphics and also the observation from the field.Welcome for comments! 

Fantastic Voyage -Marketing research in field (Pentagon gifts shop)

As I am worried the differences between my own vision of style and the 10+ teen's vision, I went to the "Card factory" in Pentagon, Chatham to observe the card's designs. It was noticeable that they are all attractive in sharp colours but also light and peaceful which are nice and relax to read. 

Furthermore, Those cards define the objects in shapes which they combined many simple shapes into a bigger picture and there are not many complex lines and make the image more easy to read. 

I am sure that from these observations will help me to create the animation concept more suitable to my audiences and learning science in a relax and happy way. 

Fantastic Voyage- Artist Research- Geefwee Boedoe

Geefwee Boedoe is an animator and illustrator and he worked in Disney and Pixar. His works were building with layers to create 3D structure but more his works are attractive with colours and tones and it gave me an inspirations of the style.  

"Lets's pollute" was produced by Boedoe in 2011 and has been nominated for an Oscar for the best short film, animated category.