how to draw backgrounds

It is good to ask questions, but you really should do some leg work first. Use your search engine, I did and I found stuff. I am not trying to pick on you, I just wonted to not try and get others to do your work for you. (gees that sounds bad)

I'm sorry, I have to agree with scoobanimator, and I've seen it a bunch on this forum. People are awfully quick to jump on someone assuming that they didn't use a search engine. I've seen it more than once.

Perhaps this is just part of the "leg work" that they've been doing all along. After all, isn't this forum a place to ask for and share information? Or is there some sort of minimum post count you need to reach before people help you out?

Scoobanimator, to answer your question, one thing to do is take up drawing and painting of real environments. Once you learn the skills to do realistic or semi-realistic paintings, color and composition comes much easier when you begin to stylize it for animation. It's a lot of work but it's like doing figure drawing to improve your animation skills.

Good luck!

I also recommend character design instruction, even if it's just that Chen Yi Chang video. Familiarize yourself with the foreground and it will help you with the background, especially stylistically.

And the search engine thing is only a recent development. I've never seen a regular contributor or professional harp on anyone unnecessarily because they understand this is a learning and bull-sessioning forum.

drawing backgrounds..

how about going outside and actually draw what u see: buildings, houses, landscape..etc
this will help you develop the needed skills for background art.
but there are allot of techniques,
either use google to search for them, or try attend to an art school.

Long time back I posted a similar question in many forums, searched a lot, but never found any useful guidance. There are several good resources to learn character drawing coloring etc. I never found any useful material to learn background drawings though.

I liked the backgrounds used it “Samurai Jack” a lot and wanted to see some good quality images of those backgrounds to study the style. Those backgrounds are very much stylized and vector looking. It would be great to have information like what medium/software they used for making them etc. “Atomic Betty” is another example of this kind of backgrounds.

Backgrounds used in “Pokemon” series look like watercolor paintings. They do not have too much detailing but still they do look very appealing. Similar style and color can be achieved using many software. But knowing few tips will be great. For example the ground (especially the mud grounds, walkways, foot paths) used in Pokeman is very simple with some color patches and light shading… still it looks very acceptable. May be seeing a lot of them will help. Or may be some one worked on such projects could give some clues. That’s what I (may be Scoobanimator too) want… when I post such a question in forums like this.

So what are we talking about?

1) A good collection of such different styles of backgrounds will be a great resource to learn.
2) Some clues on different software’s and techniques used to achieve some of these styles.

If there is some place on Internet with information of these pattern… I wish to know it too.

wow. i jst had this discussion today. what came of it was that the most important thing is perspective. you should be able to see different angles and understand distances and be able to create an environment that captures the mood of the storyboarded shot.
think like an interior designer - be able to see distances, frames ups etc.

cheers.

In addition to everything mentioned above, you need to leave room for your characters to act. The background should look incomplete without the characters in place. Also, use color to draw attention to where the characters will be. At Disney they call this the "pool of light".

In addition to perspective there is distorted perspective as well. I was at the leg of a T intersection last night and turned my head from the left to the right. Let's say I wanted to capture a car driving by that I had seen. You'd start with the distant point where you began watching, and that would be reasonably small.......it would arc into a pretty normal size area of scenery for whatever's right in front of you, and stretch to the point of everything over to the right that's far away. That emulates the camera movement, so you only worry about the perspective of the car. When you pan across that to follow your perspective car it'll seem like a turn. Almost as if you had stitch a bunch of photos together.

Pinocchio has A MAZ ING backgrounds for this element of time slash camera movement deal.

Sorry and no your post was not too harsh. Your post gave me the impression that you have not done any searching. I need to keep to the shadows and not respond so quickly. I tryed to start a thread on Foley to get input on the subject and that tanked.

Thanks scoob, let me dive in to that site and see if I can find some useful information there.