Alongside my work on the characters, I have been working on concept art for the world in which they live.
I wanted to tie this work in to my previous work on the Butterfly Dragon to ensure that my animation and story involving him still stay relevant. Because of this, the Butterfly Dragon does indeed still live in a large pear tree.
I started out with the idea that this tree was enormous in size and was home to many butterfly dragons, including the Monarch Butterfly Dragon who lives on the lowest branch.
I wasn't incredibly inspired by this idea, however, and felt that for a species as magical as butterfly dragons, they needed an equally epic home, in order for it to be believable.
A while ago I was playing around with the idea of them living inside a volcano, and this has since become the basis for their 'hidden world'. The dragons live in a forest which has grown inside an extinct volcano. The Monarch Butterfly Dragon lives in the largest pear tree, and the other trees are home to many different varieties of butterfly dragon, two of which being the Blue Morph Butterfly Dragon and the Pearly Eye Butterfly Dragon, who are the other two main characters.
My short animation that I will include in this project will show off the dragons and their world, so I have been working on concept art that I can use as background material for the animation as well as for my character 'look book' that I aim to create.
The concept art has been simplified for the animation, as the characters will not contain a high level of detail due to time constraints. I will add details such as moving clouds, dragons and water when I come to animate.
These are the three backgrounds that I will animate over. This is something I haven't tried yet as I usually create the backgrounds in photoshop as I animate, so I hope the risk pays off.
This is the concept art for the Volcano Island which I will be including in my 'look book' for this project.
This is the concept art for the inside of the Volcano, showing the little dragons that live there.
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