Man, I had a really tough time deciding on backgrounds. I wanted to make it minimalist so as not to distract from the main thing that was going on, but also I wanted to make it mean something SEMIOTICALLY. Every other element of the storyboard is steeped in GREATER MEANING. The colours represent factions of society, the apes represent the primal nature of man at his core. If I chose a background purely because it looks nice without any other purpose, it could remove the tenability and cogency of other aspects of the storyboard. Like, if one aspect of it doesn't mean a specific thing, why should any of it?
I checked out "The Dot and the Line", a kind of abstract Chuck Jones animation from 1965 which has really minimalist backgrounds. For most of the animation, it's one block colour that changes depending on the mood or the pace of the story.
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| This is the most detailed it gets. Big spiky lines and shapes |
I ended up going with very simple, single coloured backgrounds based on this animation that change based on the mood or pace of the story.
It starts off with a coool, relaxed background
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