Miming in Copenhagen

We have a lot reference when it comes to the building designs that are going to be in our set but as not much research into the bridge that we want in the middle of our bridge.

This first image is very close to how we want our set to look. With the tall buildings and wide foot bridge over a river. However the 'river' in our animation is going to be more of a canal like the canals in Venice, so a lot thinner than this.

Miming in Salzburg

Salzburg, Austria is another city with some of the characteristics we like...mainly the building style and river that runs through. I think it will be another area from which we take a lot of inspiration.

Miming in Perpignan

From Mat's recent visit to Perpignan in France, he suggested we look at the city for some inspiration.

Here are the images we found

Although it is a beautiful setting, the grassy banks aren't really fitting with our ideas of a plaza or square-type setting. As Mat said, time to keep on looking!

Miming in Venice

Checking out Venice; we already knew that there would be a lot of bridges there so that was our main focus.


Here are some images of the stone bridges, as you can see they are mostly very small foot bridges that have small of no barrier to stop you falling in the water. I think this is because the water level is so high and there isn't a great deal of danger if you fall in.

I like the stairs that go down to the canal, this maybe be something we use as Mat likes it too

This is a bigger bridge that isn't really something we want, it's simply too big.

Miming in Prague

After finally finalising our story decisions and synopsis, we developed the script. With just a few notes added on the bottom the lecturers are all happy with it! We plan to start the script breakdown by the end of the week...but before we do, we need to know what our set is going to look like.


That's where this post comes in...


For the first time since we started his project we both agree on something! The setting for the animation! 


We both had a European city in our minds, with a small river running through the centre of something like a plaza or town square, and a bridge going over the small river.


So we are going to do some research into these type of cities and towns, including; Prague, Perpignan, Venice, Paris, Moscow and Copenhagen, gathering a lot of reference images.


Here are some images of town squares in Prague, these are the sort of building fronts we both imagined, the pale painted brick with rusty red accents.


I think we will take a lot of reference from these images as the buildings are exactly what we pictured together.

The old style of the buildings is something that we want to capture in our animation, especially on the old timer's side of the river or square.